Every year, players get to vote for a new monster that will then make it into Minecraft for free, however, the community is hugely upset about it. We explain why!
New content for a game that’s more than ten years old is always great in itself, right? Well, with Minecraft the community is now raising concerns about a now unloved tradition and has even started a petition to fight back against Mojang.
We explain to you what’s going on around the famous block world at the moment!
The agony of choice
As a tradition, Mojang has been asking the Minecraft community to vote on a new monster every year, which will then be implemented into the game for free. And now it was that time again in 2023:
- From 7 p.m. on October 13 until 7:15 p.m. on October 15 German time, voting can be done in the Minecraft Launcher, on Minecraft.net, or on the Minecraft: Bedrock Edition event server.
- The result will then be revealed in the Minecraft live show, which will take place on Sunday, October 15, starting at 7pm.
To choose from this time:
- A penguin that can speed up the players’ boat.
- A crab whose claws can be used to place blocks at a greater distance.
- An armadillo whose outer skin can be used to make special armor for the tamed wolves.
What’s the problem now? All three sound really cool and would surely enrich the gameplay, right? Yes, that’s exactly how large parts of the community feel and they are calling for an end to the waste of great ideas.
Because only the winner of the voting will be implemented, the other two monster animals disappear in software nirvana – and the dilemma repeats itself for years.
A petition for the species preservation of all monster ideas
(In a petition) that has already been signed by nearly 350,000 people, they demand that three new monsters be brought into play each year and that voting be stopped.
How do the initiators argue? They provide several reasons why the current content policy needs to be changed:
- Minecraft owes part of its popularity to regular updates and new content. But since Microsoft bought Mojang, the rate of updates is perceived to have deteriorated, he said.
- The ideas are
always fantastic
, but the vote would force the community to decide and thus let potential top content expire.
In some cases, individual content creators would encourage their viewers to manipulate the vote with targeted votes, thus distorting the result. Because voting can even be used to deliberately vote against the community’s favorites, voting is not immune to trolling.
From the point of view of the petition initiators, the situation also becomes extra ridiculous
when unpaid modders simply integrate the announced but not implemented monsters into the game themselves only days later.
What do you think about the petition? Do the initiators as well as consequently the signers have a point or is this rather brazen? Because at the end of the day, this is free new content, the tripling of which is being demanded, so to speak. Which monster that failed in past votes do you still miss? Feel free to write us your thoughts and opinions on this topic in the comments!
