Is This The Downfall of Minecraft?

Minecraft one of the most popular games to date a game that has been around since 2009 to 2011 and has a continuously growing and changing Community spin-off games and yearly updates always adding something new to the game not all people think this is a good thing this Sparks the question is

Minecraft even changing for the better or for the worse Let’s start with the main game and its updates on November 18 2017 Minecraft’s biggest convention Minecon was buzzing with hundreds of excited players if you’re an early Minecrafter during this time period Minecon was the place to go to meet people of the community get a

Sneak peek on what was to come and have fun but Minecon 2017 was different of course you had new things planned for the game everyone was playing but that wasn’t the only thing announced this year would be the first update with the Minecraft mob vote players were given a

Choice to vote between four new Mobs that could potentially go with this new update the winner would be announced during this convention as the Phantom and as promised the Phantom was added in 1.13 Minecraft’s The Aquatic update after this new edition was added to the game players were upset the most popular

Clan was that not much information was given about this creature the Phantom is a hostile mob that spawns when the player has not slept in three in-game days or one hour the Phantoms swooped down on the player bite them and repeat until they are taken care of after

Seeing the reaction the fan base had to this mob Mojang had one response adding a command to turn them off in servers two years later hooray of course Mojang would not let the same mistake happen twice on September 29 2018 during this year’s Minecon Earth players would

Participate in voting for a biome rather than a single mob the Taiga Biome won adding berries foxes and campfires but this time there wasn’t much anger from the vote why well rather than the other two options getting scrapped the desert in the savannah it is said that it will

Likely come in the future anyways this works so well that Mojang did it a second time September 28 2019 was the last Minecon for a few reasons Mojang did the biome vote the same way the mountain volume 1 adding powdered snow and goats and the swamp biome got second

Place which would come the following update with frogs mangroves and boat chests the Badlands biome update is still yet to come but on October 3rd 2020 things went off the rails this year Minecon would be replaced with Minecraft live and with multiple biomes already promised they decided to return turn to

A mob boat to make it easier to bring updates together for this boat the losing mobs would be shelved and may never be added unlike the previous biome votes however the vote wasn’t what it had seemed Mojang was trying to experiment with implementing lore into Minecraft and the new iceology was their

Way to get their foot in the door all they had to do was add two simple mobs that would lose against it the mod vote being skewed is just speculation as there is no official statement that this was the original attempt from the start however Mojang had already started

Developing code for the isolager before it lost the vote which is why it can be found in game files and spawned in using commands today not only that but this would be a strategy Mojang would try it more than once so if the odds were in

The favor of the isoliger how did it lose first let’s look at the competition looking at the other mobs it was pretty clear that the other options were left pretty vague mughaloon would Rome introduce a new flower and do something with bees second option was the glow

Squid which was stated to be found in caves and glow without emitting light but it was during this period of 2020 were created by the name of dream was growing rapidly and had jokingly made a statement telling people to vote for this mob no one thought anything of it

At first but dream’s influence was more effective than him or even Mojang realized and after crying into their pillows at night for a week Mojang released the glow squid with 1.17 in the vote of 2021 it came around to the glare which would send slow light levels copper Golem which would finally use

Copper with redstone contraptions and the LA which would pick up surrounding items for you on October 16 2021 the LA one and most people were happy with it a lot of people wanted the copper Golem but the LA wasn’t a bad option for them and still provided some use there did

Seem to be a little bit of bias towards it from Mojang but nothing too bad and is still considered fair to me until 2022 which at the time of writing this is the most recent mob vote this year the three mobs presented were the Rascal the tough Golem and the sniffer the

Sniffer won majority and it is quite obvious why well in 20 20 mojango and archeology they’ve been building out their ancient world ever since with additions like the sniffer that’s why though they’ll never admit it the Minecraft mob vote was rigged the mavo clearly never seems to fully make

Everyone happy every person I asked when making this said that the updates would be better off without the vote entirely if Mojang is going to put all their time into the mechanics and lore of only one mob then don’t give us other options at all and I think that is what the

Frustration the community has with the new updates lower or at least big attempts at it besides the votes Mojang has been adding countless things each update trying more and more to experiment with the lore in their game one of the key parts of Minecraft is music discs by adding a disc that is

Just coughing and walking for sound effects you would normally hear in game it makes the overall experience of finding one of these less rewarding take the warden for example I think having a new boss is something everyone loves an extra challenge but defeating it only gives you an item you could easily find

In that same area no real reward for defeating it and the response they gave to this was you aren’t supposed to kill it the loot you can find within the ancient city is unbelievably better it is a cool concept but I don’t think the lore should be better than the gameplay

Which can be said for all games but especially a sandbox-like game besides the lore attention and mavo I don’t think that there are many problems people have with the update before the village and pillage update mending another good enchantments could only be found in loot chest or random enchants

From Enchanted tables honestly I don’t personally have a problem with any of these I think the glow squid is hilarious I do however wish the copper Golem won because all you do with copper now is get rid of it but overall I don’t think these are huge problems but

Minecraft isn’t the only thing Mojang has to offer aside from the main game there are four other spin-offs at least to my knowledge and starting with the first and my favorite of the lot Minecraft story mode Minecraft story mode follows the story of Jessie and his friends Axel Olivia and of course Reuben

These four underdogs end up going to a building competition called endercon but things don’t go to plan as a vengeful Ivor creates a powerful wither storm this creature was made to show the incompetence of the order of the stone but lost control over the world but who

Is the order of the stone the order of the stone is a group of Heroes Magnus the Rogue eligar the engineer Soren the architect Gabriel the warrior and yes I know every character off the top of my head these heroes are said to have killed the Ender Dragon becoming kind of

A legend the winners of intercon were even going to meet one of them from here it is up to Jesse and their friends to reunite the order and save the world or at least that was the plot for season one they had a season 2 which was a lot

Longer following Jesse Petra Lucas and Ivor running through Dimensions trying to get home this game was originally announced during Minecon 2015 by a company called Telltale Games which was originally a small group of people from LucasArts and Lucas Hearts is derived from lucasfilms most notable for the

Star hours films after many years in much work Telltale Games became super successful able to work with names such as Jurassic Park The Walking Dead and eventually Minecraft when it came out it was super successful surprisingly people loved the game so much that after the season 2 finale it was added to Netflix

For four years but to everyone’s surprise Minecraft story mode would go on to be canceled and removed from the steam shop even though this game was being played by millions Telltale never made any profit from it the only way they were able to pay their hundreds of workers was through investors and after

Too many contracts the quality of their game started falling as did the Investments with this Telltale was no longer to make enough to continue with the games on October 11 2018 Telltale Games shut down as it turns out Minecraft story mode could no longer be legally purchased and was taken off sale

After June of 2019. Telltale Games has recently been purchased and is picking up old franchises from the company’s Glory Days although it is unlikely we will see a return from Minecraft story mode if you want more information about about Minecraft story mode check out this video from high key hate me after

This obviously and that brings me to the second Minecraft spin-off Minecraft Earth was announced on May 17 2019. this mobile game would put its own spin on mechanics seen everywhere at that time this idea was widely popular and the trailer itself has now reached over 8 million views today it works similar to

The augmented reality aspects of Pokemon go with GPS locating and using the Real Worlds to bring Minecraft to life even including different items blocks and mobs to the main game Minecraft Earth seemed to have everything but this game had quite the fall after the crazy amount of hype given to the players most

Countries had to wait a month after the first release making people forget about the game entirely and the time leading up to it Microsoft sponsored multiple YouTubers amassing millions of views but after its release for Iceland and Switzerland on October 17 2019 there wasn’t much to go off of for that month

Of waiting not only that but the game was reported with many issues and bugs making the game unplayable for some Minecraft Earth even had an email system to to send an exclusive skin which I may have gotten inspiration from this skin would go to purchasers of the game but

The email didn’t work half the time either the game had so many wonderful ideas but when it came to execution it was severely lacking the game was still in Early Access it was December of 2019 so they had plenty of time to fix that was the final nail in the coffin

The game was designed to be played outside with friends and in an unexpected downfall it was fully released in a time where everyone was supposed to stay at home this bad luck caused the game to shut down in June of 2021 lasting only one and a half years

This wasn’t a fair fate for the game so much time and ideas were put into it only for all that to be wasted Minecraft’s first two spin-off Games took some of the biggest balls ever making them no longer playable sure it was bad luck Minecraft was released at

The start of a pandemic but it wasn’t alone in September of 2018 Minecraft dungeons was announced it would work as a dungeon crawling game and after a huge Delay from kovid was released on May 26 2020 nearly a year after the original release date the delay of the game did

Remove a lot of excitement from people as they kind of forgot about it there were sponsors from YouTubers bringing it back so it wasn’t as bad as Minecraft Earth pretty soon it was fairly popular the game is still available to play today although Minecraft dungeons has been losing a lot of popularity but

There is a reason for that Minecraft dungeons is not the same as Minecraft whilst there is a lot of ways to play Minecraft there’s only really one way to play Dungeons the game is fun and loved by players but there is no longer something drawing people towards it and

I expect we will see this happening again the final spin-off game is Minecraft Legends which was released on April 18 2023 as very similar mechanics but instead of being a straight path Legends is an open world RPG the game was quite popular on release but I am

Guessing after a while it will die out and Minecraft will release their next spin-off and honestly I think that’s a good thing whilst these games aren’t massively played every day like Minecraft they still hold a lot of fun in storytelling Minecraft story mode and Minecraft Earth was bad luck but

Dungeons and legends are still available and I think they may stay like that these games aren’t just a cash grab they add more variety to the main game and even though some are less popular than others it is still an experience enjoyed by a lot of players and for some a lot

Of nostalgia and memories but the games aren’t the only source of nostalgia Hey everyone hello this is Stampy and welcome to a Minecraft Let’s Play video what is going on guys and girls my name is James or thanks to you welcome back today duck Minecraft guys what’s up LDShadowLady here welcome back hey everyone it’s your friendly noodles and all welcome back to Crazy Craft all

Right what’s going on dudes and welcome to a Minecraft map hey everyone Dan here and welcome back to another video I feel as though everyone who watched early Minecraft YouTube has a specific person or series that is most nostalgic to them for me it was crazy craft 3.0 by DanTDM

Think noodles and thanks here Crazy Craft was an insanely big mod pack with tons of features to explore it was insanely fun to watch these three struggle to figure out how different mods worked anxia did witchery and burned down the server loads of times Thinknoodles explored every mod and had

The most resources and DanTDM logged on a couple times some things never change back then all Minecraft content was similar but different in a good way every content creator of this time did let’s plays on survival worlds servers adventure maps and mod packs and most of these creators posted daily but slowly

As audiences got older Minecraft videos and even the game itself lost popularity and stayed that way for a couple of years until one group of people did the unexpected the Creator by the name of dream who primarily coded Minecraft challenges started a new series beating Minecraft with a catch his friend George

Not found would be trying to stop him one friend turned into two and eventually turned into three but at three Hunters things were different it wasn’t just a couple of friends hanging out it was intense and people seemed to really like this at this time there wasn’t much popularity to Minecraft

There were servers like s p live or s p Earth that gained some popularity but eventually died out around this time dream started a new server with his friends and invited a couple of people from s p Earth including Tommy in it technoblade and Wilbur’s Hood Tommy and dream eventually started a small

Conflict centered around music discs and with the help of Wilbur these small parts of story slowly became more complicated until multi-page long scripts were developed for every stream this idea was adored by millions amassing views never seen before for not only Minecraft but YouTube and twitch as well Minecraft’s audience was so much

Bigger than ever with countless other creators bringing the game back to life but the amount of views for the dream s p were mainly gained during the pandemic and after the pandemic ended the creators wanted to move on and the dream s p slowly came to an end today

Minecraft’s content is very diverse and unique one of the most popular today was a new s p that started after the dream s p ended the qsmp is a server dedicated to fighting the language barrier on release the s p consisted of Spanish and English creators but later added

Portuguese and French creators the original premise was that the players were trapped on an island and had to complete various challenges one of the challenges was taking care of eggs but this idea was so explosively popular that when the time came for the challenge to end they decided to keep

The eggs another one of the biggest servers is lifesteal s p centered around stealing Health from enemies with each kill this makes the server full of traps trickery and betrayal it’s such a popular idea that it has been going on for multiple Seasons season 5 recently came out and I was recently rejected

From it but that’s okay I guess the genre of Minecraft content is so much bigger including build building role play challenges and commentary and if those last two sound interesting why not subscribe and check out the rest of my things I don’t do a lot of video essays

But I do a lot of challenges that I think you might enjoy But to answer the question is Minecraft getting worse I would say no there has been a lot of variety that has been added to the game and not much has been removed the game hasn’t been getting more complicated

There are just more things to do when asking for people’s opinions on this all of them said better and worse this game doesn’t have a single player base but instead it connects hundreds of different communities and at the end of the day isn’t that what a good game should accomplish

Whether you like watching high stakes challenges a server referral of trickery or role play Big updates small updates Bed Wars buildings spin-off games and content creators new and old the amount of difference in opinion is breathtaking because everyone looks for something different I played this game for the first time

Around 2014. it was a game My Brother played and loved from there he shared the experience with me I was too scared to play Survival so I went around in creative mode building TNT houses making friends with villagers and recreating moments I saw with YouTubers my brother

Showed me I played for a couple years until I lost interest and stopped playing I didn’t play again until 2020 and by the time I had returned it felt like a whole new experience it wasn’t just to build or survive anymore it was a whole new world and

When I think back to the kid who started these pointless adventures in creative mode it didn’t just make me think how far this game had come but how far I had come and the players and the YouTubers the list goes on Minecraft the game is changing Minecraft’s audience changed a long time

Ago but it will never stay static for everyone to be honest that is one of the best things you will ever see