User:Simons Mith/Feature Requests

More on Feature Requests
The truth is, Mojang already have more than enough ideas for features they want to add to keep them going for years; they don't really need any more. Furthermore, they already have some well-established design principles for whether features of a given type are appropriate or not. In particular, new ideas for crafting recipes, block types and new mobs, which probably make up more than 90% of the feature requests they receive, are all the kinds of things they can think of for themselves without needing outside suggestions.
 * Speculation*

A far better route towards implementing your personal feature requests is the new Mod API, once it appears, and the existing modding community. If your idea is that great, by far the surest route to actually get it is to code it for yourself and produce a mod, even if you have to learn how to program first. Only exceptional programmers coming up with material that integrates cleanly with the core of the game are likely to see their ideas taken up by Mojang. That means the work of no more than a few dozen people.