Minecraft Pocket Edition is RUINED because of this…

Today we’re going to be talking about the most played version of Minecraft out there and well no it’s not the Java edition of the game and well actually it’s not even the incredibly successful Minecraft Bedrock Edition that’s on console and PCs today we will be talking about Minecraft Pocket Edition a version

Of Minecraft that has sold a combined 133 million copies of the game across IOS and Android and regularly accounts for over 100 million dollars annually in revenue for the game you’d think that Minecraft Pocket Edition would be boasting a stellar gameplay experience considering how much revenue and sales

It brings in every year but it’s quite the opposite the Minecraft pocket edition gameplay experience is one that brings fear into my heart when I have to think about playing the increasingly complex game of Minecraft on a bare bones and outdated mobile control system before we jump any further into things

If you think I’m making this video as a PC Enthusiast sitting on my high horse and hitting on mobile games well that couldn’t be further from the truth see I started my career as a YouTuber years and years ago playing mobile games particularly competitive shooter mobile games like fortnite mobile and Call of

Duty mobile and I still regularly and actively upload content to my mobile main Channel ducky the gamer I’ve spent the last few years putting in thousands of hours into dozens of different mobile games reaching some of the top ranks in the world while doing so so I think I’m

Slightly qualified when it comes to speaking on mobile games when I started my first solo let’s play here on the channel I plan on doing it all on Minecraft Pocket Edition why you might ask well up to this point the last time I had really put time into Minecraft

Java Edition was years ago when I was maybe 13 or 14 years old and I thought it’d be really fun to start something new on the platform that I was already very familiar with that being mobile that was until I actually started playing and I quickly realized that

Minecraft Pocket Edition had some of the most ancient and unusable controls I had ever had the displeasure of using let me explain in virtually every mobile game on the market the developers of the game give the players the ability to customize their controls and almost every aspect of their gameplay to suit

Their needs if a player just wants a more comfortable way to press the jump button well they can do that or if a player wants to try to become a mechanical God and use up to eight fingers at once on their controls and buttons well they can also do that

Giving players the ability to adjust their controls has become such a basic and rudimentary feature on other mobile games that I was shocked to learn that Minecraft Pocket Edition had never implemented this simple feature and yet it didn’t seem to hurt success of the game at all I have to give credit where

Credit is due and as far as mobile games go Minecraft Pocket Edition is pretty standard in most areas and Cutting Edge in others they have a robust shared Marketplace system with the Xbox PlayStation switch and windows versions of the game albeit at a small price and they also give users the native ability

To add custom server IPs to their game and play on servers that no other edition of Bedrock can do so without installing third-party applications this is a little shout out but if you’re a pocket edition or Bedrock player looking for a new server to play on my server

The potomacy has a new SMP realm that just launched as well as a Skyblock realm that are both online 24 7. okay sorry about that continuing on the setting menus are also pretty up-to-date when it comes to a Visual and graphical options giving users the ability to change their fov render distance and

Small details like clouds to further help cater the gameplay so that it fits the individual needs of each player and where Minecraft Pocket Edition has always really impressed me is with the mods you can install on your phone yes you heard me right mods gone are the

Days where Java is the only platform where you can easily install mods to truly enhance and customize your gameplay through the use of MCPE mod packs you’re able to add some quite fun and crazy mods to alter the gameplay experience there’s also a pretty big modding Community out there on YouTube

For the game with tons of tutorials to help you get started on both IOS and Android with installing these mods it’s crazy that the only platformer Bedrock that gives you the ability to install custom Community made mods is also the same exact platform that after 12 years

Does not allow you to customize your controls I do have to mention that just a few months ago that Minecraft Pocket Edition received a rather major update to the control options it gives its players Minecraft now gives players the option to use a circular or joystick to control your movement rather than the

Clunky 8-way control figuration it previously had and this newest setting also adds a few more individualized buttons to the player’s screens buttons like jump Crouch attack and Sprint are the main ones but sadly the one thing that Minecraft didn’t add was the ability for the position size or opacity

Of these buttons to be changed in the slightest I need to correct myself here they did add the ability for the opacity of just the joystick to be changed which doesn’t really matter because 90 of the time your thumb is over anyways and they do give the option to change the size of

The buttons but it’s all the buttons at once and you can’t change the individual size of different buttons depending on your preference so with some customization but not nearly close to Industry standard adding the ability to change these three simple characteristics of a button is All I Ask

Of the Mojang development team it’s like Minecraft got to the 99th meter of a 100 meter race and decided to quit for some reason they added the one thing that all Minecraft Pocket Edition players have been begging for for almost the lifespan of the game updated controls but they

Forgot to add a customizable heads-up display after a year spent playing mobile games and making content on them the one thing that’s always stuck out to me is just how different the gameplay experience can be from player to player on one end of the spectrum you have a

Mobile gamer who’s using a low-end Android device because well that’s really all they can afford to use so they alter the graphics and the performance of the game so that while it might not be great it still gives them a fighting chance against other players

And at the other end of the spectrum you have mobile Gamers using top of the line phones or tablets to where they can take full advantage of the maximum performance that the game offers however there is one thing that almost always levels the playing field and that’s the

Customization of the controls the low end player can be be at a disadvantage because of their phone or tablet but they can make up for that disadvantage by customizing their controls to where they’re able to out skill anyone they run across now listen I know Minecraft Pocket Edition isn’t a competitive first

Person shooter on mobile but it doesn’t need to be to have customizable controls if you’re thinking to yourself that with more buttons and customization that the screen would get too cluttered well I’d have to argue against that this was my fortnite mobile heads-up display with almost 20 buttons on the screen but I

Was still able to position them in a manner to where I was able to fight against an oftentimes beats console and pc49 players all while playing on an iPad so no I don’t think that adding customization would make the screen too cluttered if anything I think there is a

Ton of screen real estate at the moment that isn’t being used and would be very helpful to let the players decide on how their button layout functions with their device type and screen size I can’t help but think of the millions of players who have wanted to increase increase their

Skill and their mechanical ability on Minecraft Pocket Edition but have been limited by just how restricted the controls are unless completely throw aside mechanics and just focus on people being able to comfortably enjoy Minecraft Pocket Edition as I know with the current layout that my hands get

Cramped and fatigued after a very short time because of the unoptimized layout on smartphones and tablets with the current state of controls I’m shocked that there are players out there who’ve been able to work against the odds and have become amazingly skilled at Minecraft Pocket Edition but I also

Can’t help to think of just how many more incredibly skilled talented and devoted Minecraft Pocket Edition players there would be out there if people were able to do something as small as customize the controls additionally I’m pretty surprised players have reached the skill level they have with only

These four to five buttons on screen adding additional buttons like toggle perspective the ability to drop one atom at a time rather than dropping an entire stack at a time and and the ability to have multiple layouts would make the control system even greater with the added customization think of all the

Different play styles of Minecraft players out there you have the creative Builders who are able to make some stunning creations in Minecraft you have the survival Warriors who are able to last thousands of days in just one world and the PVP Grinders who are able to land some crazy combos against other

Players each one of these play Styles deserves their own unique HUD as each playstyle requires very different buttons and layouts to perform the tasks at hand in an efficient manner and multiple heads-up displays is an industry standard nowadays in Mobile gaming if I might add I’ve made this

Video today out of love and frustration love for the mobile platform what it has done for me and my career and how much enjoyment I still get out of it and frustration for the fact that such a simple but revolutionary Edition like customizable controls still isn’t a part

Of one of the biggest mobile titles in the world World there have been some leaks as of recent that allude to the developers already working on adding customizable buttons to the game but unfortunately the last bit of information we have to go on is almost six months old at this point but more

Importantly than leaks there’s been a big Community presence around getting this feature added to the game I hope one day and one day soon Mojang realizes how adding such a simple feature could change Minecraft Pocket Edition forever and that we might be able to get the ability to customize our controls so

That I can finally make episode 2 of that let’s play I started years ago