the xp bar is just for enchanting, the more xp u get the better enchantment. i thinks thats where it will stay. there is no "level" there, just how much u can enchant. if they do go down the rpg route tho it wont be as good. they should just leave it as it is.

Woah, way to revive an 8 month old thread guys!

There will be a game mode where you can't place or destroy blocks in the next update.
Personally, I think this is just fun. If you prefer the sandboxy thing in minecraft, there is a creative mode, and when I play in survival, enchantment and EXP is something that I don't really care about (making a billion bookshelves and an ugly table, why?).

I'm really looking forward to that new gamemode, it's ideal for custom adventure maps, right?

it's not BECOMING an RPG game unless you play it like one but if you play it like all other sandbox games then you can still call it a sandbox game. So it becomes an RPG or sandbox game depending on how you play so don't blame notch. Plus its still a sandbox game because it has no end and that's the only rule in sandbox that's really important. Not trying to be a smart ass here just spreading my opinion.

Xam, same.

Whoa, didn't see the necro. Lock maybe?

EDIT~ Well, this topic is more of an ongoing thing, I don't see the harm in continuing it.

Animatrix, I get the feeling we share the same views on many topics.

*8 months

Christ sake people, stop necroing 4 month old threads.

That^

I don't understand people- you always demand an update. Well, this was the only available route to go down, and now you complain? Well, be careful what you wish for.

Ew, don't necro.

They added adventure gamemode.

As i can see, this post was created around when 1.8 came out. Now there's jungles, testificates(villagers), cats and more, but most importantly-CURRENCY.
Even though i liked most of the previous updates, this one i hate. And one more thing-mining ores and smelting now also gives you XP. NOOOOOO, Jeb!

It's not really an RPG game though, it's still a sandbox. Definition of a sandbox game
"A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences. Each player sees only some of the challenges possible, and the same challenges may be played in a different order."

This is still true for MC

I am pretty sure it was always meant to be a sandbox game because it was made as an Infiniminer clone at first. However, a little later Notch probably considered turning it into an RPG/sandbox game considering the fact that one of the working titles was "Minecraft: Order of the Stone."

I personally like it, surely if someone doesn't like the enchanting, don't enchant, if someone doesn't like brewing, don't use potion, it's that easy.
The food bar is the only one that you can't just don't do. But it's easy, slay a cow, cook it, and eat it, or just set up a simple wheat farm and make bread, and if you are going to say 'but that takes time and i don't have it and this and that and whine', then you shouldn't have updated.

But don't get me wrong that i'm one of the haters, i understand that most of the people are upset:
Alpha 0.30 Sanbox Beta 1.0 Sandbox 1.5 Sandbox 1.7 Sandbox, and then BOOOM, suddenly, food bar? WTH? I know you need to get used to it, but over time you grow normal to it that you need to go hunting ^^

Jeb&Notch ruining minecraft?
Down to downgrade to good old alpha!
when creepers was the boss and not some stupid enderdragon AND NO EXP

I consider that MC should remay a sandbox but if Jeb says that it should turn into a RPG
HE SHALL BE EXTERMINATED!!!
But i think that the project is even bigger i saw that Jeb will introduce a capture the flag mod that is often found in the shooter games.Maybe he is trying to introduce every single game mode in Minecraft turning it into a failed project to make the ultimate PC game.

My only complaint is the hunger bar. i dont like eating 7 times a minecraft day.

Blah, this thread sounds like fail. Minecraft was never meant to be a sandbox game, that's just what it ended up being. Minecraft is supposed to be a randomly generated world environment where your goal is to survive using the resources at your disposal. It became a sandbox game when everyone's creativity got thrown into the game. If you disagree with me, then why is the game mode called 'survival mode'?

These new rpg elements add to the adventure and survival parts of the game that were originally intended. Food, obvious for your survival. Exp, sort of a measure for how good you are at surviving, since dying will make you lose your exp. Need I go on?

Anyways, you should be glad that there is a creative mode now and you don't have to use third party software to get a lot of stuff for building.

im not bothered if it stays sandbox or goes the full RPG, but has any one heard of red dead, assassins creed, the old final fantasies (before 13 ruined it), or WoW/Runescape? these are all great RPG/sandbox games and although minecraft gets 10/10 from me already, making it slightly more like these games will add a lot more fun to all the people who enjoyed 1.8

They're making a new game mode called Adventure. So yeah..

I like what Notch is doing to the game, its more fun this way!
As @BlackFTW says, just ignore the "RPG features"

"Oh no Experience orbs that might not even get an use"
"NOTCH IS GOING TO MAKE RPG *Cry cry cry*"

Jeez. It's not an RPG anyone who says it is obviously never played an RPG before.

Minecraft is not becoming an RPG game Minecraft is a Sand box game (it can be a RPG in mp it depends )

creative mode= sandbox
survival mode= pseudo-RPG-adventure
adventure mode= RPG

stop crying about RPG you don't have to play RPG mode if you don't want.

I like where Minecraft is going. It needed something to make it more interesting than just placing blocks. Plus, that is all in survival mode. If you do something, don't you get experience? It's just making it more realistic and more of a SURVIVAL mode.

Minecraft is minecraft. why not enjoy it as there are still options to choose from creative to survival. If you ever want a game to improve this is the only way Notch could think of. U cannot blame how its gone, all you need to do u play...

NekMinute

I find it hard to really consider the update really RPG. I know that's what Mojang is intending, but throwing in an xp bar isn't really RPG. When we have NPCs to interact with, that's more roleplaying. And I believe that aspect of the game is supposed to be optional (as in, you create an RPG world OR a sandbox world.)

It will be a mix of the both. Later you will be able to summon bosses too. Kindof like terraria's feature. But that's what makes minecraft unique!

If you want sand box go to creative... Duhhh!

This was always the intent, people are just getting mad because they preferred the game when it had no features. This is like playing the BETA for a Grand Theft Auto game where all you can do is drive and then getting bitchy when they update it and add guns/cops/missions and killing hookers. Yall should have expected it.

I hated the RPG stuff at the start too,but now I just don't pay any attention to it.Except when I play survival with my friends,i pay a little bit attention to it,but that doesn't bother me.

Oh well, just ignore it, it makes the game more diverse and interesting, the more stuff like this, the more chance notch can branch out into more interesting stuff. And besides, minecraft is still sand-box at heart.

Minecraft+sandbox=Minecraft Minecraft+rpg=junk I had a rpg mod and it made me mad (sorry for the english)

Or, you could do this thing called ignore the RPG features notch adds, yes?

Yea i sorta wish Notch would leave the rpg stuff to the modders

So there will be no ever chance of a currency system or a turn-based battle system?
D:

No, it's becoming a SBRPG. (Sand box role playing game.)

Oh no! Minecraft is becoming a role-playing game game???

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