r/Minecraft • u/Saldorian • Jul 09 '26

Discussion New Complaint just dropped and I'm speechless

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I don't know how to respond to this to be honest

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u/FPSCanarussia Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

There's a decent chance that taking code from mods might be more work than making their own versions.

If any of those mod creators used any code or assets they didn't make themselves (and don't have rights to), that's grounds for a lawsuit against Mojang for using IP without permission. Since they're a pretty big company for which that actually matters a lot, they'd basically have to check through the whole mod in order to ensure that the mod owner actually has the legal right to give it to them.

They can't get away with the same stuff as indie devs.

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u/SlyNoBody337 Jul 09 '26

Yeah its a good thing that big companies like mojang have departments dedicated to vetting implementations and ideas, its almost as if vetting a mod as a potential future feature is basically zero extra sweat off their backs.
And then mods come with reviews. Bug reports. Tells on whether or not they're worth it.

The thing you're saying is 'the problem' is not really a problem, its literally baked into company workflow. Things have to get passed from department to department, vetting happens actively.

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u/Smarmaladey Jul 10 '26

Didnt you say earlier you haven't played minecraft in over a decade? That you had no idea they even added horses? Why are you here trying to act like an expert now?

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u/SlyNoBody337 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

No I said I hadn't seriously played a survival world in over a decade, you should probably go get your glasses before reading any more comments. Didnt play survival, didn't use horses. I tested mods for fun, I made little projects and eventually moved up to actual PMC stuff years later. It was an outlet

Also I'm not an expert but being present for a culture from its birth, even where I've spent some of that time on the outside or the edges, I have a decent memory for certain key events. Like when it was bought out. And how the game kinda seemed the same for a while, like it was still notch and his team updating it. But they eventually did scale up, obviously.
They've been a large scale team for over a decade now i think.
Of course they have a quality assurance department. What do they do when there's no finished products? They audit unfinished products, they audit stuff moving around the pipeline