Now as we know Mojang intends to change minecrafts versioning from the industry standard major.minor.bugfix to essentially year.drop.bugfix.
So for example, 1.21.11 would become 25.4.0 under this system.
People have suggested better alternatives like 1.21.4.0, 21.4.0, or simply keeping it the same.
This post is not here to argue that we should keep the system the same as always, because this would simply be resisting change just because it is change, rather it is here to argue that this approach does not address the issues players have with the current system.
The main issue players have is that drops have simply be consolidated into the bugfix number of the version number, now it and the bugfixes have been separated. Problem solved right? Well not exactly.
Players still expect and wish for major updates to come to the game and if those still happen the issue of not being able to tell what kind of update a given version represents still persists. Now confusion will arise between drop or major version instead of drop or bugfix.
Minecrafts new versioning heavily implies major updates are gone for good or at least not distinguished from regular drops and this is not what many players wanted when they complained about the versioning, they don't just want to be able to tell which version was a drop, they want a new major update, they want 1.22 and not 26.1 if it means no more major updates.
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