As an American, I was raised to believe that democratic systems are the hallmark of freedom. Collaborating with the masses to have your voice heard in a tally where everyone’s vote equals one unit is generally a good practice. However, people who vote on things frequently have no idea what they really want. This isn’t some weird sociopathic Joker monologue. I’m directly referring to the Minecraft Community Mob Vote that takes place annually. This vote needs to be 86’d immediately. Sometimes the healthy choice for a creative project is to keep revisions made to it exclusively left up to people closely involved in the work. Mojang’s dev team allowing their child fanbase to fill out a poll and dictate the future of such a successful game is dumb.
Players Are Dying for New Mobs/ Content in Minecraft
Developers should have an ultimate say in what mobs make the cut. Because they have a stake in the game and its success that the average player doesn’t have. Something not up for debate is that we need new content badly, and that this vote is holding things back.
We could have had crabs walking around for update 1.21.
Mojang should add three new mobs into Minecraft each year. They should release the previews of each one as an announcement instead of posting the poll. Veteran players have been fiending for something new to do in game. It’s been this way since a couple months after Caves and Cliffs Part 2 released in 2022. We will literally take anything we can get in the way of new playable content. It is so painful to watch two really fun and interesting ideas die on the vine each year. The roughest part is that the mob that wins may not even be your top pick from the three choices.
Imagine voting for the Phantom over this lad.
So Many Missed Opportunities to Feature New Mobs
Kudos to Mojang for not manipulating votes by releasing one mob choice that is clearly better than the other two. But this just makes it all the more difficult to accept that only one will make the cut. Every single proposed mob since the 2015 vote seem like they still would seamlessly integrate into the game as it is today. Frustrating is it to read the entire list of nominated mobs over the years on Wikipedia. So many good ideas gone to waste.
Like the Barnacle which has a freaky and whimsical styling. Or Wildfire mob which would be able have encounters with the player in Nether Fortresses to increase these structure’s sense of danger.
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- Traversing oceans in Minecraft would be crazy if you could get attacked by something like this underwater.
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- This would have instantly become the coolest mob in Minecraft if it got added.
We lost out on lizards that can enchant our items, flower cows, and walking statues. This vote is also the reason for us not having alligators, monkeys, and copper golems In Minecraft currently.
Mojang, Please Try Something Else
If Mojang left its player community out of the decisions of what gets added into the game, no one would be upset. Since most of the time, all three of the new mobs from the yearly poll are welcome additions to Minecraft regardless. This game’s developer needs to lock in on delivering new and fresh ideas to reinvent the endgame of Minecraft past defeating the dragon and building few additional structures. It’s a sleeper. Having a massive amount of new mobs to interact with could help retain the attention of players who have accomplished mostly everything the game has to offer. Instead we get exactly one mob each year and have to watch two more mob concepts burn in a fire.
How did this little feller slip through the cracks?
The Mob Vote Giving Players the Power to Choose
This is too great of a responsibility for many, like those who voted for phantoms in 2017. I haven’t met a single player who feels Minecraft is better off with this mob’s inclusion.
These are the effects of the Community Mob Vote.
Ironic is it that the most hated mob in Minecraft is one players asked Mojang to add via a poll. This is funny but also evidence that the player base doesn’t understand its own wants well enough to make decisions about the game’s future
The addition of phantoms into the game is not even something that people can cry about. if we complain to the devs about it they can just turn around and say, “well this is what you voted for” like a genie who always has a catch when granting wishes.
That Time Dream Rigged the Mob Vote
Minecraft in the year 2020 can be defined by the insane popularity content creator “Dream” gained playing the game during quarantine. Through his rise he effectively swayed the outcome of the 2020 Community Mob Vote in this year by tweeting this.
Case and point why the Community Mob Vote needs to go.
Inorganically forcing an outcome through this type of campaigning defeats the point of having the power to choose. What is the purpose of giving someone the ability to make a decision so that they can do what someone else tells them to? The ability for an influencer to command their massive audience to affect the outcome of the voting is just another reason why this survey needs to get the axe.
I really can’t stand this thing.
Disappointment
Snapshots are the precursors to title updates. Java players are able to play with new features to come to the game in a Beta test version. Mobs that win the vote feature in these snapshots to play with in early access. These snapshots pair with a feeling of grief upon the realization that the other two options that you flirted with the idea of having in the game are now gone forever. Some root through game files and find unreleased mobs coded into the game already. Some download mods to experience what could have been.
There are lots of videos people fighting the Iceolager mob on YouTube.
But if you aren’t on PC, then you must deal with the consequences of this poll. Minecraft needs content in its vanilla game. Yet it still loses out on two potentially game changing features every year in a sadistic ritual. Mojang needs to come out with an official statement. A Rick Grimes campfire monologue telling the player base that they aren’t listening to them anymore and are doing what’s best for the game instead. It’s time for some tough love.
(Via 𝘿𝙮𝙧𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙚 On Youtube)
That fact that this vote has existed for so long is quite remarkable, in a bad way. As a long time player of Minecraft, I’d like to see Mojang be assertive with the direction of the game’s future. I think a massive injection of new mobs into Minecraft can be good for its longevity. Since gameplay has hit a dead end since Caves and Cliffs Part 2. Any initiative taken to bring new life into the game would go a long way with me
Minecraft Needs to Go on Another Generational Run
I want Mojang to read our minds like they did in the past. Bring us more of the gameplay experiences we all love Minecraft for. I’m through with having to deal with new disappoint brought on by my favorite of the three mobs in the vote losing and being forgotten. And doing this year after year. Penguins and crabs lost in this year’s vote to armadillos. Armadillos are a desert mob that will drop scutes to make dog armor. That’s fair enough, but who is using dogs to fight mobs anyways? I genuinely don’t see why all three cannot feature in title update 1.21.
