Where are you getting this information? To me, the game looks as big as ever. Popular youtubers getting hundreds of thousands of views, top 2 servers right now both have 25k+ players each, the game is still being sold at a crazy rate, and it's been coming out on different platforms. Where the part that suggests it's dying?
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Just go to youtube and type "minecraft". Those are the top youtubers for minecraft. Each of them gets a crap ton of views.
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Not to sound like one of the old-timers whom hates literally all of the updates, but the spirit of what MineCraft feels a little lost nowadays.
So much of what made it great just isn't there anymore. It sometimes doesn't even feel like a sandbox game, because of intentionally placed 'balances' and limits. It's also sad to see the community constantly complain and argue over every little change, regardless of what it might be.
Minecraft is still "alive" , in the sense that it's a thing. However, it feels like it's going along the same path as many other popular games. While there's an influx of new, and addicted players, the old ones are leaving. The community is becoming fractured. Modding just isn't the same. Resource packs continue to be limited by hard-coded values and intentional non-completeness of certain features. Moiang is no longer an indie dev, they're owned by a massive tech company... one that has a reputation for ruining all that is good in its products, and driving the products/companies it buys-out straight into the ground. Notch has left, and his old videos, including those about MC, now also mysteriously have disappeared or are "unavailable in your country". The more popular music parody videos are disappearing as well.
Minecraft is both alive and dead. The game itself still exists, and is still being updated, but much of its spirit, and even some of its history/legacy, is gone. The community is still here, but has gone sour. The modding community has lost some great mods, and even their creators, and Forge lately is feeling more like an empire/dictatorship. Overall, MC feels more like it's in a comatose state and being sustained by life support, than it is alive and thriving on its own.
It is certainly winding down in popularity, but it certainly isn't dead. The only games that die for good are multiplayer only games after the servers get shut down.
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I think that Minecraft isn't dead, Minecraft youtubing is dead. Many people no longer want to sit through 15 minutes of somebody else playing a game instead of playing it themselves.
Not to sound like one of the old-timers whom hates literally all of the updates, but the spirit of what MineCraft feels a little lost nowadays.
So much of what made it great just isn't there anymore. It sometimes doesn't even feel like a sandbox game, because of intentionally placed 'balances' and limits. It's also sad to see the community constantly complain and argue over every little change, regardless of what it might be.
Minecraft is still "alive" , in the sense that it's a thing. However, it feels like it's going along the same path as many other popular games. While there's an influx of new, and addicted players, the old ones are leaving. The community is becoming fractured. Modding just isn't the same. Resource packs continue to be limited by hard-coded values and intentional non-completeness of certain features. Moiang is no longer an indie dev, they're owned by a massive tech company... one that has a reputation for ruining all that is good in its products, and driving the products/companies it buys-out straight into the ground. Notch has left, and his old videos, including those about MC, now also mysteriously have disappeared or are "unavailable in your country". The more popular music parody videos are disappearing as well.
Minecraft is both alive and dead. The game itself still exists, and is still being updated, but much of its spirit, and even some of its history/legacy, is gone. The community is still here, but has gone sour. The modding community has lost some great mods, and even their creators, and Forge lately is feeling more like an empire/dictatorship. Overall, MC feels more like it's in a comatose state and being sustained by life support, than it is alive and thriving on its own.
that is deep man.
and true.
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It is certainly winding down in popularity, but it certainly isn't dead. The only games that die for good are multiplayer only games after the servers get shut down.
And/or games with some DRM in place where the developers didn't place a bypass for offline gameplay and the authentication servers got shut down.
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DRM doesn't necessarily doom a game. Thanks to dedicated fans and the websites like VG Res, there always is a chance a game gets a fan-made clone. While the original game would die, a new one could takes its place. Just saying
The same applies for multiplayer-only games. The only way to TRULY destroy a game, like many other things, is to wipe every trace of it off the face of the earth completely. This is generally impossible to accomplish. Thanks to social media, obsessed fans, sprite-rippers, hackers (not the ones who do it for personal gain), inside leaks, etc... It takes a lot to completely irradiate any popular game, especially.
To ties this back to the original topic, even after MC is no longer a thing, it will have followers. Furthermore, there is always going to be that one person who discovers an ancient game and immediately falls in love with part of it, or even the entire thing. I also am doubtful that even if, let's say tomorrow, Mojang or Microsoft announced MC will be shutting-down.in a week from now... that all of the modders, resource pack authors, map makers, etc... are just going to delete their content or give-up. Unless Moajng or MS is willing to go so far as C&D'ing literally every MC'er and MC content creator out there, a new MC era will probably rise from the ashes of this one. The fanbase probably won't be as large, but it would still exist.
For now, MC is still a thing, so we'll just wait and see what happens.
Well, the game has lasted for 6 years so you would think it's decreasing a tiny bit because people might become bored because of the loss of updates but besides that, people are just being silly saying that Minecraft is actually dying out.
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Not to sound like one of the old-timers whom hates literally all of the updates, but the spirit of what MineCraft feels a little lost nowadays.
So much of what made it great just isn't there anymore. It sometimes doesn't even feel like a sandbox game, because of intentionally placed 'balances' and limits. It's also sad to see the community constantly complain and argue over every little change, regardless of what it might be.
Minecraft is still "alive" , in the sense that it's a thing. However, it feels like it's going along the same path as many other popular games. While there's an influx of new, and addicted players, the old ones are leaving. The community is becoming fractured. Modding just isn't the same. Resource packs continue to be limited by hard-coded values and intentional non-completeness of certain features. Moiang is no longer an indie dev, they're owned by a massive tech company... one that has a reputation for ruining all that is good in its products, and driving the products/companies it buys-out straight into the ground. Notch has left, and his old videos, including those about MC, now also mysteriously have disappeared or are "unavailable in your country". The more popular music parody videos are disappearing as well.
Minecraft is both alive and dead. The game itself still exists, and is still being updated, but much of its spirit, and even some of its history/legacy, is gone. The community is still here, but has gone sour. The modding community has lost some great mods, and even their creators, and Forge lately is feeling more like an empire/dictatorship. Overall, MC feels more like it's in a comatose state and being sustained by life support, than it is alive and thriving on its own.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Give it a year or two and I think it will die down. Who knows? Maybe the Minecraft old-timers will come back.
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Yeah are you kidding op i agree with thepenmen22this game probably has more players than any other game at this time. and would most defiantly be biggest for its genre on Yt. All those time your internet is running slow yeah its because everyone playing minecraft lol jks.
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I think what is also hurting is trying find a server people like to play on and the negative energy surrounding trying to find a server , just came back to minecraft and idk if because I'm older but getting on a smaller server is so hard with the host ether being on for a week or two then done. or the server owners want you to baby their app or you get 'denied' (which I understand, but after you do so many and get denied every time you care less and less about them). People/server owners seem to have this huge grudge on the app filling process. and over time it just gets worse and worse. Playing on a huge server is fun for some but not all. I get that died feeling now more then ever before.
Note that Minecraft itself only uses a "demo" flag on the command line to toggle demo mode, which is why you can use a batch file to launch the game without demo mode (this is the case when I run the game within Mod Coder Pack; the game will even still download a skin if the randomly generated username (Player + 0-999) matches a valid name; some people actually have created names like "Player123").
That said, as far as I'm concerned the current (and upcoming) version of Minecraft is a different game from the one I bought, not that I mind since you can just downgrade to an older version, I don't see myself playing on any version after 1.6.4 for a long time unless there is a major change in my playstyle; sure, I can mod game mechanics back to what they were in older versions (I'm sure there are other mods that do the same, I've also seen servers (from watching YouTube videos, I've never played multiplayer and that is less likely with each new version) that use plugins to make enchanting tables work like the ones in 1.7, remove hunger exhaustion from regenerating health (that's a change made all the way back in 1.6), and so on) but that is a bit pointless when those newer versions don't offer anything that is a "must-have" to me; I've never even used several mods I made that revert several changes.
I am not seeing a decline in MC what so ever. Hermitcraft is going strong and all of the are putting out videos on youtube as well as doing daily streams on Twitch, They are just one example of good MC players still going there are many more. The Market was saturated with every squeaker and troll with a cam and a mic putting out videos on youtube and a good portion of those are going away because their content was crap.
As for the mods declining some of that could be they are holding off waiting for 1.9 to be fully released. Once it is out I am willing to bet the mod makers are going to once again flood the market.
The multi player servers may be dieing I dont know. I left the multi players servers because of the kids rageing and their foul language and all the trolls or hackers it just made it all unplayable for me. I now play every day on single player and am still going strong,
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Not to sound like one of the old-timers whom hates literally all of the updates, but the spirit of what MineCraft feels a little lost nowadays.
So much of what made it great just isn't there anymore. It sometimes doesn't even feel like a sandbox game, because of intentionally placed 'balances' and limits. It's also sad to see the community constantly complain and argue over every little change, regardless of what it might be.
Minecraft is still "alive" , in the sense that it's a thing. However, it feels like it's going along the same path as many other popular games. While there's an influx of new, and addicted players, the old ones are leaving. The community is becoming fractured. Modding just isn't the same. Resource packs continue to be limited by hard-coded values and intentional non-completeness of certain features. Moiang is no longer an indie dev, they're owned by a massive tech company... one that has a reputation for ruining all that is good in its products, and driving the products/companies it buys-out straight into the ground. Notch has left, and his old videos, including those about MC, now also mysteriously have disappeared or are "unavailable in your country". The more popular music parody videos are disappearing as well.
Minecraft is both alive and dead. The game itself still exists, and is still being updated, but much of its spirit, and even some of its history/legacy, is gone. The community is still here, but has gone sour. The modding community has lost some great mods, and even their creators, and Forge lately is feeling more like an empire/dictatorship. Overall, MC feels more like it's in a comatose state and being sustained by life support, than it is alive and thriving on its own.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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Minecraft has seen a MAJOR decline in popularity throughout youtube and other media, so my question for you guys, is Minecraft dying?
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Not the game itself, just the commercialization of it. So this is a good thing.
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Where are you getting this information? To me, the game looks as big as ever. Popular youtubers getting hundreds of thousands of views, top 2 servers right now both have 25k+ players each, the game is still being sold at a crazy rate, and it's been coming out on different platforms. Where the part that suggests it's dying?
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Well, what popular youtubers you are referring to?
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Just go to youtube and type "minecraft". Those are the top youtubers for minecraft. Each of them gets a crap ton of views.
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What? Guess how many players are playing, last time I checked.
21,633,410. And the number is climbing by the minute. Guess how many registered today?
11,944. Again, that number is climbing by the minute.
Just because commercialization decreases, doesn't mean the game's popularity decreases.
Not to sound like one of the old-timers whom hates literally all of the updates, but the spirit of what MineCraft feels a little lost nowadays.
So much of what made it great just isn't there anymore. It sometimes doesn't even feel like a sandbox game, because of intentionally placed 'balances' and limits. It's also sad to see the community constantly complain and argue over every little change, regardless of what it might be.
Minecraft is still "alive" , in the sense that it's a thing. However, it feels like it's going along the same path as many other popular games. While there's an influx of new, and addicted players, the old ones are leaving. The community is becoming fractured. Modding just isn't the same. Resource packs continue to be limited by hard-coded values and intentional non-completeness of certain features. Moiang is no longer an indie dev, they're owned by a massive tech company... one that has a reputation for ruining all that is good in its products, and driving the products/companies it buys-out straight into the ground. Notch has left, and his old videos, including those about MC, now also mysteriously have disappeared or are "unavailable in your country". The more popular music parody videos are disappearing as well.
Minecraft is both alive and dead. The game itself still exists, and is still being updated, but much of its spirit, and even some of its history/legacy, is gone. The community is still here, but has gone sour. The modding community has lost some great mods, and even their creators, and Forge lately is feeling more like an empire/dictatorship. Overall, MC feels more like it's in a comatose state and being sustained by life support, than it is alive and thriving on its own.
It is certainly winding down in popularity, but it certainly isn't dead. The only games that die for good are multiplayer only games after the servers get shut down.
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that is deep man.
and true.
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And/or games with some DRM in place where the developers didn't place a bypass for offline gameplay and the authentication servers got shut down.
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DRM doesn't necessarily doom a game. Thanks to dedicated fans and the websites like VG Res, there always is a chance a game gets a fan-made clone. While the original game would die, a new one could takes its place. Just saying
The same applies for multiplayer-only games. The only way to TRULY destroy a game, like many other things, is to wipe every trace of it off the face of the earth completely. This is generally impossible to accomplish. Thanks to social media, obsessed fans, sprite-rippers, hackers (not the ones who do it for personal gain), inside leaks, etc... It takes a lot to completely irradiate any popular game, especially.
To ties this back to the original topic, even after MC is no longer a thing, it will have followers. Furthermore, there is always going to be that one person who discovers an ancient game and immediately falls in love with part of it, or even the entire thing. I also am doubtful that even if, let's say tomorrow, Mojang or Microsoft announced MC will be shutting-down.in a week from now... that all of the modders, resource pack authors, map makers, etc... are just going to delete their content or give-up. Unless Moajng or MS is willing to go so far as C&D'ing literally every MC'er and MC content creator out there, a new MC era will probably rise from the ashes of this one. The fanbase probably won't be as large, but it would still exist.
For now, MC is still a thing, so we'll just wait and see what happens.
Well, the game has lasted for 6 years so you would think it's decreasing a tiny bit because people might become bored because of the loss of updates but besides that, people are just being silly saying that Minecraft is actually dying out.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. Give it a year or two and I think it will die down. Who knows? Maybe the Minecraft old-timers will come back.
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Yeah are you kidding op i agree with thepenmen22this game probably has more players than any other game at this time. and would most defiantly be biggest for its genre on Yt. All those time your internet is running slow yeah its because everyone playing minecraft lol jks.
Could you please provide links to say minecraft is dying?
If minecraft really is dying, it won't reach 20 millions of the games sold by now.
There's some servers seems to see less and less players online.
It's not because minecraft is dying, it's because the players are tired and decide to play another servers.
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I think what is also hurting is trying find a server people like to play on and the negative energy surrounding trying to find a server , just came back to minecraft and idk if because I'm older but getting on a smaller server is so hard with the host ether being on for a week or two then done. or the server owners want you to baby their app or you get 'denied' (which I understand, but after you do so many and get denied every time you care less and less about them). People/server owners seem to have this huge grudge on the app filling process. and over time it just gets worse and worse. Playing on a huge server is fun for some but not all. I get that died feeling now more then ever before.
Even then it is legal to hack a game to bypass the authentication servers as long as you paid for it and only for singleplayer:
US gov’t grants limited right to revive games behind “abandoned” servers [Updated]
Note that Minecraft itself only uses a "demo" flag on the command line to toggle demo mode, which is why you can use a batch file to launch the game without demo mode (this is the case when I run the game within Mod Coder Pack; the game will even still download a skin if the randomly generated username (Player + 0-999) matches a valid name; some people actually have created names like "Player123").
That said, as far as I'm concerned the current (and upcoming) version of Minecraft is a different game from the one I bought, not that I mind since you can just downgrade to an older version, I don't see myself playing on any version after 1.6.4 for a long time unless there is a major change in my playstyle; sure, I can mod game mechanics back to what they were in older versions (I'm sure there are other mods that do the same, I've also seen servers (from watching YouTube videos, I've never played multiplayer and that is less likely with each new version) that use plugins to make enchanting tables work like the ones in 1.7, remove hunger exhaustion from regenerating health (that's a change made all the way back in 1.6), and so on) but that is a bit pointless when those newer versions don't offer anything that is a "must-have" to me; I've never even used several mods I made that revert several changes.
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I am not seeing a decline in MC what so ever. Hermitcraft is going strong and all of the are putting out videos on youtube as well as doing daily streams on Twitch, They are just one example of good MC players still going there are many more. The Market was saturated with every squeaker and troll with a cam and a mic putting out videos on youtube and a good portion of those are going away because their content was crap.
As for the mods declining some of that could be they are holding off waiting for 1.9 to be fully released. Once it is out I am willing to bet the mod makers are going to once again flood the market.
The multi player servers may be dieing I dont know. I left the multi players servers because of the kids rageing and their foul language and all the trolls or hackers it just made it all unplayable for me. I now play every day on single player and am still going strong,
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