The "Minecraft Pocket Edition" (MCPE) code that became Bedrock predates Microsoft's involvement by over three years. Bedrock is actually Microsoft's effort to unify versions, eliminating the separate legacy console editions and providing cross-play with PC, mobile, and other console users.
Java remains separate because the consoles will never run Java and the modding community that exists around the Java version just can't be replicated on the Bedrock codebase. If it weren't for mods I guarantee Java edition would be dead.
My biggest issue is the amount of friction when creating a new Microsoft account for a child. I have to walk through other parents in creating a MS account for themselves (if they don't have one), then how to make a child account with a username, then finding and ticking a bunch of checkboxes to allow online play, then launching Minecraft and signing in with the new child account. It's way too many steps with email verifications. It's >30 minutes. In just my circle there's several parents who gave up and sadly their kid can't play with their group of friends. People outside of tech don't have patience for that crap. This is all outside the fact that each console has their own form of friction in allowing kids to play online.
C'mon Microsoft, you can improve the new user process. Just make an optional in-game wizard asking parents a bunch of questions so kids can play ASAP. And if the issue is that it wouldn't fit in with the one-size-fits-all MS accounts used for everything else, then flag the "wizard-built" accounts as incomplete so parents can go through making a 360 account another day. Damn metrics.
They target Bedrock for this, and I strongly suspect once it starts bringing in extra money they will essentially kill further Java edition development.
Then, by making Bedrock available to people who paid for Java, they would give a hassle-free way for players and modders to try it, and many will probably stick to the latest version.
I do hope, if this scenario comes about, the community will keep the Java version alive by maintaining feature parity, but there’re fundamental issues where some features might not be easily backported on Java due to performance limitations, plus community fragmentation as different modders try to backport same new features in different mutually incompatible ways.
It would be hassle free for vanilla players, but certainly not for modders. There are years of community support built around the Java version that would need to be moved to bedrock to make moving the modding scene hassle free.
For some reason they locked my completely unused Microsoft account, that was created for the sole purpose of migrating my Minecraft account to, due to "unusual behavior" (or "activity that violates our Microsoft Services Agreement" if you go by the error message instead of the corresponding knowledge base article).
The reasonable thing to do in such a case if of course to require users to "[verify] [they] are the account owner" by receiving an SMS verification code on an arbitrary phone number (they explicitly mention the possibility of "asking a trusted friend or family member" for this).
Realms are obviously different because the two versions are incompatible.
So back to the point: What did you think of the words that Markus said?
Do you agree with Markus Persson that Zoe Quinn is a "cunt", and think that Markus was right to tell her so publicly and personally on Twitter?
Do you think it's a good business decision for Microsoft to associate themselves with those words?
I don’t know either person but I think they both should have a right to say whatever they want.
>Do you think it's a good business decision for Microsoft to associate themselves with those words?
I think people will care for two days and then forget about it. It’s irrelevant. Some people will boycott the product if they stay associated but then some will like what happened and will buy if they let the guy stay as a way of supporting him. Overall it will make zero difference.
I suggest you go look up "GamerGate" before you humiliate yourself any more in a public discussion about Minecraft by standing up for what Markus Persson said while unconvincingly claiming not to know who he is or what he meant.
>I don’t know either person but [bullshit redacted].
You don't have to personally know both people to have an opinion, but you've already made yours quite clear. So don't bother posting your next formulaic "but" excuse: "I'm not misogynistic, but what's the big deal about calling a female game developer who's been viciously and systematically attacked by GamerGate a cunt?"
You also miserably failed to explain why you mistakenly thought I was talking about code quality, and why you naively think code quality is all that matters in a product, and why you believe Microsoft should stand behind Markus Persson after he publicly called Zoe Quinn a "cunt" (and said a lot more horrible, sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, and thoroughly asinine things, too) and aligned himself with and carried out the goals GamerGate, like you just did.
So next time, use Google and Wikipedia before opening your big fat mouth and pretending to be ignorant, and stop getting all your news and misogynistic arguments from 4chan. But at least now we all know where you're actually coming from, and just what kind of a person you really are, and why you're embarrassed to associate your own name with your vile opinions.
I won't bother giving you any URLs to prove my point, because your own words already have, and I'm quite sure you know exactly what I'm talking about, but you're just playing coy and falsely claiming "I don't know X, but ..." because you're a troll. And if not, which I doubt, then look it up yourself.