Minecraft Xbox 360 update 8 gets full changelog - 4J "hoping

[Clanger67 59]

Thought the wait would be because of cert. testing.Plus they will be lucky to get it to us this month,they only have three days,lol.Been afflicted by a few bugs in the list though so it's all good.Come on MS get your finger out.

[Afrolicious 26]

Man.. I hate having to make a new world every time they release a new patch, it becomes such a buzzkill when you have to do EVERYTHING fifty billion times over...

[Gazisdaman 27]

Why don't they just bring minecraft up to date with the pc version? Doesn't it cost huge amounts of money to update a game on xbox, especially for an indie developer. They seem to be quite frivolous with their money.

[FishyGinger 50]

Why don't they just bring minecraft up to date with the pc version? Doesn't it cost huge amounts of money to update a game on xbox, especially for an indie developer. They seem to be quite frivolous with their money.

It does normally but Microsoft are letting them do it for free I think.

[yogscast 1]

i love minecraft xbox 360 edition.I was hoping for mods but, no.

[JacobsM 17]

Was hoping for some new stuff not just fixes

[PCG The_B 61]

Why don't they just bring minecraft up to date with the pc version? Doesn't it cost huge amounts of money to update a game on xbox, especially for an indie developer. They seem to be quite frivolous with their money.

In addition to what FishyGinger says it's literally not as simple as just bringing it up to date either. The 360 version is done by 4J with help from Mojang, and 4J started working on the 360 version well before many of the updates seen in the PC version. Also, the PC version is coded in Java, while the Xbox version is... well, I don't think they've said specifically but I'd assume sort of it's own engine that may use some of the base code, but isn't exactly the same so the PC stuff has to be 'converted' to the Xbox format, which includes stuff like taking into consideration the hardware limitations of the 360. In theory 4J could just hold back their updates and then do one big one, but we'd all be waiting literally ages for it - and then 4J have said they want to eventually divert away from the PC version to do specific 360 version updates. So they've decided it's better to do frequent, incremental updates than one massive one which could take an extraordinary amount of time, even taking into account the speed they've updated the game to the point they have so far.

[Clanger67 59]

The updates available i reckon,just stuck a 7mb download on mine.Bloody hell they pulled that one out sharpish.

Yep it's def. the update exp. orbs make a noise now when you collect them.So they did get it out in Jan.