Minecraft "Windows 10 Edition" Announced

[owsf2000]

I guess it's beginning.

I don't even see the reason for this thing to exist personally, although one shill in the comments has posted multiple times the "pros and cons" of a Windows 10 Edition. The pros being things that Minecraft has not needed to become as popular as it is, and the cons being those very same things Minecraft doesn't have. (Meaning it's a very poor list of reasons, doubled up to make it look like he has a point.)

So anyway this Windows 10 edition will be free to anyone who already has PC Minecraft - or 10 dollars if you don't. And the new version will be based on the Pocket Minecraft edition. IE: Essentially one of the weakest editions available.

- No dedicated servers (Although they're hoping for that "later")
- Multiplayer limited to 7 players.

Apparently it's only advantage is that it will be able to interact/multiplay with all Windows sources (phone, tablet, Windows 10, and Xbox Live).

So we can see how they're aiming to pool everyone into the primarily-Windows-Only version they're creating, which will likely have difficulties with mods, etc. (Do you really expect them to allow Mods on this if it's going to be interacting with Xbox Live? Likely only if those are bought and paid for thorugh the store.) Then eventually after they reach "feature parity" with proper Minecraft PC, we'll likely start to see the new things added to Windows 10 first or perhaps only. Then when enough people are switched over to the Windows 10 edition (After all it's free, or 1/3 the price currently of PC Minecraft) they'll find little reason to keep the PC servers going using the excuse "anyone on PC minecraft can just download the free Windows 10 Edition and continue to play!"

Really not hard to see this coming, we'll see how it stands a year or two from now, and see I called it.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Well, one of the new things with Windows 10, iirc, was that it was going to support Xbox Live (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8175279/xbox-live-windows-10-free-multiplayer-gaming) yes? And by that I mean "baked into it". That'll probably be their excuse to make it required "Well, you should have it installed anyway since you have Win10 and it's 'free'."

It's pretty much a done deal that this shit is going to happen at any rate. I don't care what the reputation mangagement drones and fanboys want to say - microsoft does NOT spend 2.5 BILLION dollars for no reason whatsoever. They're going to milk this as much as they can, but before they can do that they have to oust the successful, freely mod-able PC version that made it all possible. Without that they won't be able to start charging for mods, etc the way they do on their console versions, etc. (Which shows the direction they really want to take it imo.)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Well, one of the new things with Windows 10, iirc, was that it was going to support Xbox Live (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8175279/xbox-live-windows-10-free-multiplayer-gaming) yes? And by that I mean "baked into it".

Ah yes, I'd forgotten all about that. Yet another reason in a long list of reasons for me to not ever want to upgrade to Windows 10, I guess.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Of course, what with them abandoning mainstream support for Win7 (http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-7-support-what-happens-on-january-13-2015/) several months ago, they already seem to be well into the process of trying to shoo Windows 7 out the door in favor of Windows 10 anyway, so it'll probably be sooner than later when "upgrading" will essentially become required. I wonder if I'll be able to hold out until that January 2020 date, at least... ¬_¬ Long before that time gets here, though, most games and other software will likely be written in such a way that it will require Windows 10 anyway, so... *weary sigh*

That's actually a bit of a digression from the main subject of Minecraft Win10, I realize now after I typed it out, but eh...