Note that the subreddit will not disappear. All this means is that the actual Minecraft devs will no longer be using it for official announcements / collect feedback (that's why the "thanks for the feedback"). Instead now they ask people to use the existing feedback channels.
It might affect the IPO if this happens more generally or causes a trend, but I don't think it's such a big deal. It's not like they are sunsetting the subreddit. And even if they did, the reddit admins can simply mark the channel as abandoned and allow for new mods to take it over. So the community there will most likely continue as it was. I bet most people didn't even know the official devs were there.
Huge. I aways found it crazy that big companies would find reddit useful enough to risk officially run a sub. Don't know if we will see the same here unless they were to self host, and I don't think many would.
Cool, but let’s not pretend Mojang are the good guys.
They added chat moderation on private servers that you host yourself on your own hardware using your own internet.
The entire community was in uproar over it for months and they didn’t care. They deleted all criticism from their sub and continued on like nothing was happening. They refused to answer any questions about it, and uploaded new snapshots that only had ONE change, and that was to break mods that disabled chat moderation.
This was so bad it actually prompted modders to backport all of the 1.19 features to 1.18.
Just thought I’d remind everyone. Mojang is a shit company now that they are owned by Microsoft. They are not the good guys.
This was so bad it actually prompted modders to backport all of the 1.19 features to 1.18.
This has been a thing for every major modern version. Its faster for a single enterprising dev to backport things than for the entire mod scene to update to a new version. I distinctly remember playing Blackgear’s Caves and Cliffs Backport on 1.16.
There are, however, Forge/Fabric mods that completely remove the reporting system.
I have to admit that it was a while since I tried any Minecraft-likes, but the last time I tried most of them were pretty bare-bones. Vintage Story is decent, but it’s much more focused on the survival aspect (which makes it a bit tedious) and doesn’t have a lot of content, either.
They will stick to their already existing proprietary feedback channels.
And I doubt the subreddit will disappear, it's just that it will no longer be "official". I don't see them stating anywhere that they will set it to private or something... and even if they did, the reddit admins can simply mark the channel as abandoned and allow for new mods to take it over.
To be honest, I feel this is simply the most convenient strategic move for Mojang. As a company I would have done the same, they no longer have to bring employees to support a third party platform and at the same time they get to promote their own. And instead of getting backlash, they'll look like the good guys for doing so.
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