Basically title, this thing with two editions of the game slows down development because they now have to write the same thing twice and it splits the userbase. They also don’t want to make Bedrock edition for Linux for some reason.
Basically title, this thing with two editions of the game slows down development because they now have to write the same thing twice and it splits the userbase. They also don’t want to make Bedrock edition for Linux for some reason.
Discontinuing JE, I think, would be beneficial in a way. Modders could finally settle down on the last version, and players would be able to tailor in/out anything they wish from that base. If a mod got written for this final version, it would just keep working for ever (short of modloader version changes and mod incompatibility).
I don’t think JE can be discontinued for the time being without a lot of uproar. The two editions, while similar on the surface, are two very different games underneath and I and quite a few people I know would never touch bedrock with a ten foot pole. Part of that is of course mod support, part of it are the micro transactions and part of that is just some things working just a little bit differently for no apparent reason. The whole thing just feels a bit uncanny every time I’ve tried it.
Discontinuing JE would destroy the modding scene and be a generally bad thing for players.
Unless they make it inaccessible, I see no reason that users wouldn’t stick around and play the last version.