It’s been about a month since the release of Minecraft 1.19 and as always awe expected his first revision, Minecraft 1.19.1, to see the light of day a few weeks later., to improve those aspects that were at the end of the beta phase waiting to have a negative impact on the game experience. And everything was pointing in that direction, as just a week after launch, Mojang released a 22w4a image that suggested they were already on it.

Roughly a week later, Pre-Version 1 was already released, and just two days later, Release Candidate 1 did the same on June 23rd. Also, Mojang announced on Twitter that Minecraft 1.19.1 will be released on July 28th, the day before yesterday. However, during the day, nothing was known about the said update, and only at the end, a tweet was published on the developer’s account, which indicated that there were pending tasks and that the update has been delayed without further indication or the reasons, or the date, or nothing at all.

From this point of view, with this information, it would appear that Mojang has identified a problem and decided to delay the update, something that would be perfectly defensible. I’ve always thought it’s better to arrive well than to arrive quickly. The problem is that everything actually points to the Minecraft 1.19.1 release It wasn’t a technical problem that held her back, but a new feature, introduced without first telling the community, and which was received very negatively from it. That is right.

This new feature is actually only new to Minecraft Java as it has been present in the Bedrock edition for some time and consists of the ability to report bad behavior from other players in the chat to Mojang. A feature that the player can be temporarily disabled, so you won’t be able to access the game servers for the duration of the lockout. A measure that was already revealed in pre-release 1 and which immediately angered a large part of the Minecraft Java community.

And I said before that it’s understandable, very understandable because the peculiarities of each server were not taken into account during its implementationand because also Mojang acted in fully autonomous mode, no community consultation, no progressive deployment like beta and so on. From day to day, the community found out that this system will be implemented globally.

There are stances and content to watch, I totally agree and I already made that clear a few days ago when I talked about Riot Games plans. However, Mojang has always rightly prided itself on taking the community’s opinion into account, which it did not do on this occasion. And if it did, the feedback received certainly would that they take into account that each server is a worldand that reprehensible attitudes on some servers may be allowed on others.

Mojang has already taken a step back between implementing a reporting system and release Candidate 1 of Minecraft 1.19.1 and remove some of the most controversial categories of the original version, such as the use of profanity. However, due to the huge criticism from the community, it seems that they have realized what a huge mistake it is to act in this way, and that they may therefore have decided to suspend the reporting system until an agreement is reached with the authority. commonwealth. This is, in my opinion, the only proper way to fix this huge mistake by Mojang.