End of Minecraft Mob Vote: Community Controversy and Fallout

The Minecraft mob vote was officially retired due to community outrage and ongoing controversies.

### The End of Minecraft's Mob Vote: Controversy and Cancellation
* 🚫 Minecraft's mob vote has been officially canceled, marking the **end of a controversial tradition** that saw over **500,000 players voting to end it last year** due to numerous issues.
* 🗳 The mob vote faced backlash from the community over allegations of **botting, influencer manipulation, and poorly received mob designs**, leading to **widespread disappointment**.
* 📅 The first mob vote in 2017 introduced significant problems, such as a **brief voting period that excluded many players** and resulted in **only one mob being added**, leaving the majority **dissatisfied**.
* 🔍 Subsequent years attempted to improve the process, with the **2018 biome vote allowing for later updates of losing concepts**, yet many biomes from previous votes remain **unimplemented years later**.
* 📈 By 2020, the mob vote had gained **immense popularity**, with over **800,000 participants**, but continued issues arose, particularly when the **Glow Squid won over more interesting options** like the Isoler.
* 😟 Community frustration peaked in 2023, leading to petitions and boycotts as players were upset about the **lack of interesting mob concepts** and the **inability to add all three candidates**.
* 📢 Mojang developers cited the **complexity of adding new mobs** and the need for **quality control across various platforms** as reasons for not implementing all candidates, but the backlash ultimately led to the **mob vote's retirement**.
* 🔚 As Minecraft transitions to a new format for updates, the interactive element of the **mob vote will be missed**, leaving fans wondering how their **input on game development will be replaced**.

there will never be another Minecraft mob vote ever again. The past few years, Minecraft's mob vote has been extremely controversial, getting so bad to the point that over 500,000 people voted to end it for good last year. With drama surrounding big YouTubers influencing the vote, allegations of botting and fraudulent votes, and poorly designed mobs that left the community disappointed at what they had missed out on, the mob vote has become a rather infamous time of year. And as of not even a week ago now, with Minecraft live drawing near and the community once again ready for another three candidates, out of the blue, the mob vote was cancelled for good. What happened? What did developers have to say? Why couldn't Mojang just add all three mobs? What went wrong with the Minecraft mob vote? If we look at the very first Minecraft mob vote all the way back in 2017, we can already see early signs of the mob vot's many problems. As I'm sure you all know, there were four hostile mob concepts to

choose from in the 2017 mob vote: the monster of the ocean depths, the monster of the night skies, the great hunger, and the hovering Inferno. Players would vote on Twitter over the roughly 90 minutes Minecon Earth ran for, with there being three votes total. The monster of the night skies, or as we all infamously know it now, the Phantom, would win. Now, there were already three huge problems with this system. First of all, the voting period was so brief, brief that it excluded the majority of the Minecraft Community from participating. For example, the vote occurred from 3:40 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. for me, meaning I couldn't participate at all, and I'm sure there were other people in very similar situations. As such, only a very small number of people voted in these polls. The second huge issue is that very often, a majority of the players will not be happy. There were four mobs, each of which received around a quarter of the votes initially. Obviously, only one mob could

get in though meaning that even though there were further votes to decide the winner, roughly 3/4 of the player base's idle mob would not be added. The majority of the players would lose even more so because the losing three mobs would not be added later on. Their Concepts and design were effectively canned forever and would never see addition to the game, really adding insult to injury. And the third huge problem is one of which Mojang and the general player base would only end up discovering after the Phantom had been implemented, and that's the fact that merely showing a single sketch of the mobs with a very vague concept could lead to the mob's actual implementation not going so smoothly. When the Phantom was actually added to the game, people were very disappointed and found the mob annoying rather than terrifying. Now that all being said, this was still the very first mob vote. It was small, new, and less serious compared to later years. Most people, while upset with the Phantom, still found it very cool that they got a say in a Minecraft

update, and while some people did complain, the noise wasn't really that loud. Yet in 2018, the vote returned, this time with Mojang learning from some of the past issues and changing things up. But first, this video is sponsored by Private Internet Access VPN, the world's most transparent VPN provider with a no-logs policy. Pia vpn.com, theem Mr. Epic. A VPN is an app that hides your IP address and safeguards your internet connection, meaning wherever you are browsing online, only the intended websites, apps, or programs get to see your information, not any malicious third parties. So browsing the internet with an unencrypted connection is like joining a Minecraft server and typing your IP address in the chat, which isn't too far from what actually happens. As whenever you join a Minecraft server, the server owners can see your IP. While this can be okay if the server is big and trustworthy, certain malicious servers can use this against you, or your IP could be caught up in a big server data leak. Private Internet Access protects you from both of those things happening by hiding your

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disappointed when the winner was actually implemented. Upon the announcement of the 2018 biome vote, players initially were upset because they thought that, like the previous year, whichever concept lost would effectively be canned for good. But also this time around, rather than the losers never being included in any update and being scrapped forever, they would instead be updated at a later date, which many players were happy about. The tiger would win, and the such would be updated the following year in 1.14. But the losers being the desert and Savannah, to this day, 6 years later, still have yet to be updated, with their seeming being no plans to do so. Notably, this time around, the poll got over 50,000 votes, clearly displaying that the mob and biome vote idea was becoming more popular and generating more discussion and hype around the game's updates, which was one of its intended goals. 2019 was much of the same. This time, there were over 250,000 votes, with the mountain winning and being updated in caves and cliffs, swamps coming second and being updated.

in 1.19 and the bad lands losing and still yet to be updated to this day. The reception to this vote was also very positive, although early signs of frustration at the large time period it would take for the losing biomes to be updated were evident, especially since the losers of the previous year's biome vote were still not implemented yet. Overall, things were fine though, and the mob and biome vote was turning out to be a great hype and marketing tool for Mojang. That would all change in 2020. In 2020, the mob vote would return, and with it the looming fact that the losing mobs would effectively never be added to the game and were gone for forever. Furthermore, after the issues with 2017's mob vote where the winner was disappointing, I personally believe that Mojang scouted back the concepts they presented, and this is a trend you'll see continuing votes later on. In 2017, we got four cool unique hostile mob boss Concepts, all of which likely having a

significantly different new mechanic, like the Phantom's ability to fly. But with the 2020 mob vote and votes from here on out, we would only have three concepts, which, as you'll see, were much simpler and less grand or hype, almost entirely consisting of passive mobs only with Co and the game's rejuvenation and popularity. The 2020 mob vote was already turning out to be the most talked about by far. Each of the three mobs, the MU Bloom, the Isoler, and the Glow Squid, got its own intro animations and over 800,000 people voted. But these same problems, which were present in 2017, of which the Bim vote mostly fixed, returned once again. And now that the vote had over 200 times the attention the first vote did, whatever dramas and frustrations there were were also going to be 200 times louder. The Glow Squid and MU Bloom were two passive mobs that were comparatively boring compared to the Isoler, a very fresh mob with an

entirely unique method of attacking. Feature-wise, it was objectively the mob which promised to be the most different and interesting. However, the glow squid would ever so slightly claim victory, potentially helped by the campaigning of some rather large YouTubers. So once again, about 2/3 of voters were left disappointed that their mob of choice lost and was gone forever. Many people, such as myself, were unable to vote entirely due to the brief time frame the vote ran for, not fitting our time zones. And when the glow squid was eventually added to the game, it was extremely underwhelming. It literally didn't even glow unless you used a mod with emissive lighting, such as OptiFine. And the only thing it was useful for was this. Players whose mob lost were quite upset, and players whose mob won were also upset because, like the 2017 mob vote, the mob's actual implementation was disappointing. And in the case of the glow squid, it was just so damn uninteresting. Very few people were left happy with this mob vote. It was another early sign of what

was to come. That being said, the 2021 mob vote actually went okay, and this likely was because, for the first time, one of the mobs got over 50% majority of the votes. Furthermore, feature-wise, the LA, which was the winner, actually had the most objectively unique and useful mechanics. So, unlike the useless underwhelming glow squids of the previous year, people were content when the LA would be added to the game, satisfied because it did what was initially advertised. This mob vote went so well because there was one mob clearly better than the other two feature-wise, but that's also a double-edged sword because if only one of the mobs is interesting or useful enough, it means the concepts we were getting were beginning to drop in quality and diversity compared to previous years. 2022, the mob vote would further improve in one specific domain as the time restraints, which for many people locked them out of the ability to vote, were removed, and instead players had 24 hours to vote through a server on Bedrock Edition or through the Minecraft

launcher. However, there was a new problem now, and that's the fact that the three mob concepts, well, just kind of sucked. The sniffer, the rascal, and the tough golem were all relatively boring mobs, which just didn't seem to do anything noteworthy. They had some new mechanics, sure, like the tough golem's proposed ability to hold and display an item, but none of these mechanics were as useful or as interesting as the Isoler or even the mobs from 2017. And while there was once again a majority vote clear winner, this time people complained that the concepts were boring and underwhelming. I guess if you compare the proposed hovering Inferno or Monster of the Deep Sea, dangerous and exciting concepts we never got to see in-game and now never will, to our new winners, the sniffer and the glow squid, years later, it really is quite disappointing by comparison. Disappointing just like how I'm disappointed in the number of you who still aren't subscribed. Help me reach 750k subs by the end of the year. No.

pressure, and unfortunately, 2023 wasn't that different. In 2023, we got to pick between the crab, a mob which let you place and break blocks from further away; the armadillo, a mob which drops an item to craft wolf armor; and the penguin, a mob which increases the speed of players' bats. So, penguin: mostly useless; armadillo: limited but unique use; and the crab: potentially very interesting and good use, but also potentially disappointing, like the Phantom. Realistically, it was the armadillo versus the crab, but people got really invested in this mob vote once again, and public opinion, at least in the English-speaking community, seemed to very much favor the crab. However, when the winners would be announced, the armadillo came out on top by a significant margin, surprising many people, myself included. Now, the 2023 mob vote ended up being so controversial. Entire petitions, which got over 500,000 votes, were started. There were widespread vote boycotts. Discussion online was more prominent than ever. Accusations that Mojang was lazy were now louder than

ever and even Mojang developers would respond. I think the culmination of previous years' repeated frustrations and disappointments, combined with the fact that there were vote botting allegations that I covered here, if you're curious, which by the way did actually happen, all resulted in a huge outburst from the player base. They were sick of seeing cool mob concepts they liked being canned for good. They looked at the losers and compared them to the winners and were upset that such comparatively uninteresting mobs won. They simply wanted to know why couldn't all three mobs just be added. The outcry was so loud that Mojang developers would respond. King Bogs on Twitter replied to a couple of posts. Most of these have since been deleted, but we have screenshots and transcripts in Reddit posts. In response to why they can't add all three mobs, King Bogs mentioned that the time it would take to add all three would actually lead to less content being part of normal updates because the development team would be so busy adding an extra two mobs. He was asked why it's

so hard to add mobs, which seems so basic, to which he responded with the entire process required to add such a mob to the game. The key takeaways from this, and part of the reason why modders have it easy, are the fact that not only do Mojang have to come up with a design that holistically fits the game and is actually fun, but they also have to code it and make it fun, fun one-to-one in both Java and Bedrock, two entirely different programming languages and engines, so they basically have to make the mob twice. They also need to make sure it works on all the various Minecraft platforms and doesn't cause any performance issues on any. Then they need to get approval and sift through feedback and bugs before the mob is ready to go. I think that really helps put it into perspective. While a modder can add losing mob vote concepts to the game in only a few hours, they don't have to add it to two different games, and they also don't have to make sure it works on

different platforms, nor do they have to consider caliz the idea and make sure it fits Minecraft and this fun in the first place. It's a much bigger process than what it seems. I think this is also why we went from four bigger hostile mob concepts in 2017 to the format of three passive mobs with less notable mechanics in later mob votes. Another dev wrote a blog post about the mob votes in general, mentioning that even they expected the iser to win 2020 as it was the obvious choice, and the reason the LA so easily won the 2021 vote was because it was a concept that was much more fleshed out and developed than the other two. But overall, the LA winning was positive. More importantly, the dev echoed a similar sentiment surrounding the why not add all three question, that being that there was simply not enough time or resources to add all three, but also mentioning that if all three mobs would be added, there wouldn't even be a vote in the first place, and there would simply be

another feature in yet another update to have a mob vote. Mobs have to win and lose, I guess, but I think they definitely should have done the buy-and-vote method of adding the losers later on. We got more insights from further Mojang developers and staff a few months ago in this video. Over the years, we started to see that people really like the idea of getting to contribute to what we make in the game, but I think the problem is we started having ideas that people really got attached to. So, it wasn't just like these really vague abstract concepts of things that could work; it was actually stuff that people could relate to. And I think the problem is it comes across as though we have all three ready to go already. They're already designed, they're already coded, they're already fully polished features, and we're just waiting to press a button on only one of them, and then we're going to throw out the other two in the votes from 2020 onwards. This is definitely evident.

people all over Twitter and in online discussions would effectively make their online personalities the mob they wanted to win. They got super invested in the vote now that the concepts were more fleshed out compared to 2017, and of course, nobody wants to miss out. There will always be a large, often majority of the player base who won't get what they want. Adding anything to a game is super complex. It needs to fit into the ecosystem, it needs to go into all the systems, it needs to make gameplay interesting in some aspect, right? Another good point about the fundamental issue with the vote that can't really be solved: there will always be a large, often majority of the player base who simply do not understand the process behind game development and what it entails, and as such, will never truly accept the rational reasoning behind why all three mobs can't be added. We need to reach a certain quality on all for all different ways you play, like if you play on a console, if you play on touch, on PC, V, and Java, so it's a lot of kind

of process and work. Once again, the devs echo the same sentiment behind the work required to add all the mobs to each platform. So, that brings us to today. Everybody expected the mob vote to go ahead as usual this year once again, but as of not even a week ago now, in a post surrounding the future of Minecraft development and upcoming changes, it was announced that the mob vote was officially being retired. It seems there won't be a mob vote ever again. There was no explanation besides the fact that the format of Minecraft live, where the mob vote winner is normally announced, is being changed from once a year to twice a year. So, we can't decide to the exact reason for the mob vote's removal, but it's likely that the previous year's Community outrage, negative attention, and drama, of which the player base won't ever understand the rationale behind their once lack of feasibility, meant that Mojang realized it likely wasn't worth it anymore. In my opinion, if they had promised to add the losing mobs later on as they did with the buy votes,

much of the outrage could have been avoided, but also that alone may not be feasible, as even the majority of the losing content from 2018 and 2019 is still not yet added. Creating an even greater backlog of content they need to add might not be a good idea. I, for one, am disappointed. I personally enjoyed the drama and discussion that happened every year and loved making videos about it, but I guess it's very different when you are actually part of the drama, not spectating from the sidelines. I do wonder if they will ever find their replacement for the interactivity the mob vote enabled or if the small yearly influence we had on the game is now gone for good. I guess the mob petitioners and boycotters from last year sort of ended up getting what they wanted. Make sure to check out Private Internet Access VPN with my link below. Be sure to subscribe. Thank you all so much for watching.

Mojang Has Cancelled Minecraft’s Mob Vote – What Went WRONG.

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Minecraft's mob vote has been canceled for good after years of controversy, with over 500,000 people voting to end it last year.

The voting system faced criticism for its brief duration, leaving many players excluded, and for the disappointing results that left a majority of the community unhappy.

The implementation of the winning mob, the Phantom, also led to disappointment, as it was perceived as annoying rather than terrifying.

The Impact of Biome and Mob Votes in Minecraft

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The biome vote in Minecraft has evolved, providing detailed animated sequences and promising to update losing concepts later.

The popularity of the votes grew, with increasing participation, but frustration arose due to the long wait for losing biomes to be updated.

The 2020 mob vote introduced three simpler, passive mobs, generating over 800,000 votes and significant drama.

The Glow Squid's controversial win left many players disappointed, and its in-game implementation was underwhelming.

The 2021 mob vote was more successful, with the LA mob winning over 50% of the votes and providing unique and useful mechanics, while the 2022 vote improved by removing time restraints for voting.

The recent mob concepts, including the sniffer, rascal, and tough golem, have been criticized for being boring and underwhelming.

The 2023 mob vote featured the crab, armadillo, and penguin, with the armadillo surprising everyone by winning.

The player base's frustration with the repeated disappointing mob selections led to widespread protests and petitions, prompting a response from Mojang developers.

The Complex Process of Adding Mobs in Minecraft

Adding mobs to Minecraft is a challenging process for Mojang, requiring design, coding, and testing in both Java and Bedrock.

The need to ensure compatibility across various platforms and to address feedback and bugs adds to the complexity.

While modders can quickly add concepts, Mojang's process is more intricate, leading to a shift from larger mob concepts to smaller, less notable ones in later votes.

The mob vote's significance grew as players became more invested, but it faced criticism for not satisfying the majority.

The complex process of game development made it challenging to add all requested mobs, leading to player frustration.

Ultimately, the mob vote was retired, with Minecraft Live's format changing to twice a year, leaving players to wonder about the future of interactivity in the game's development.