It's just not the community's golden age anymore.. It's just that the community don't really stand as one these days.. back then, people stand together... especially on map collaboration and stuff.. there were maps like the code, diversity, herobrine's mansion/returns, ect.. those maps keeps the community together. I do belive this game starts falling apart since skyDoesMinecraft started the whole try not to laugh challenge and stuff like that as his fanbase was huge.. another thing i see is that this "generation" don't really stands out.. I remember seeing people like Sethbling doing insane redstones.. it keeps the community motivated to do more.. these days, it's just different..
I wouldn't say this game is dead, it's just not moving in an exciting way for it to be noticed as good anymore..
", sans-serif">Minecraft is dying. Somehow people just join by cracked minecraft thats why minecraft would stop being sold out and this is why we should not sell minecraft for free. Minecraft is dying the correct answer of it
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Your dear,
Enemy.
Btw `do you live in America?
THINGS NOT TO DO IN MINECRAFT:
SPAM
GRIEFING
HACKING
KILLING
EVIL
SHARING
What things i wnat to be added:
TREES!! Green trees omg that will be cool!
Yup, minecraft is dying. Everyone is bored of it because kids play it. Yes, it may mean than servers are dying - not minecraft itself.
However, 14-years-old prefer other games, like LOL, MK etc.
I do not have a problem with children who are playing minecraft.
Another reason is, the new updates do not bring that much content. Here's the changelog of 1.10:
Here is a list of all the changes:
Many bug fixes
Added Polar Bear
Added Husk and Stray
An auto-jump option
Improvements to some commands
Structure blocks for custom maps
Underground fossils made from bone blocks
Added Magma Block
Added Nether Wart Block and Red Nether Bricks
Some huge mushrooms can be even larger
A rare chance to find lonely trees in plains
Find abandoned mineshafts filled with gold in mesa biomes
Villages generate better paths between the buildings
More variations of villages, based on the biomes they are built in
Endermen have been spotted in the Nether
Removed Herobrine
Small, right? Well, this happens for every update.
1.10 was sort of a mini-update which was released shortly after 1.9 and seriously, a couple of months isn't enough time to develop a HUGE update. Also just because youtubers are slowly leaving minecraft and a bunch of people are going around yelling "minecraft is dead" isn't enough to announce that everyone had lost interest in minecraft and it's just a kids game now. Also you were a kid once and these kids are gonna grow up and become map makers and modders and the new members of the huge community minecraft has. It's just evolving not dying.
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97% of teenagers would cry if they saw Justin Bieber on top of a tower about to jump. If you're the 3% who is sitting there with popcorn screaming "DO A BACKFLIP", copy and paste this as your signature.
As long as this thread was necroed I thought I've give an update on how well the game has done since my last post, where they had sold 122 million copies and there were 55 million monthly active players:
Not ones to be outdone, Mojang and Microsoft have revealed that sales of Minecraft have reached a staggering 144 million across all platforms, with a hugely impressive retention of 74 million active monthly players.
The news comes just weeks after PUBG eclipsed the total PC sales of Minecraft. Despite this, Minecraft’s success still shows no signs of slowing. The last official figure we heard was 122 million copies sold as of February 2017, meaning an average of 2 million copies of Minecraft sold every month. This compares to 1.7 million per month the prior year. Far from Minecraft’s success waning, there's actually a growth in the rate of sales.
As of right now, one in every 50 on the planet own a copy of Minecraft.
“We just recently set a new record in December for monthly active users, so now we’re at 74 million monthly active users — and that’s really a testament to people coming back to the game, whether it’s through the game updates or bringing in new players from across the world,” said Minecraft’s head honcho Helen Chiang, to PopSugar. “That’s really our goal, to keep building the community that we have.”
Suddenly that $2.5 billion Microsoft buyout in 2014 really doesn’t seem so bad at all. At the time, 54 million copies of Minecraft had been sold. In the intervening three years, a further 90 million copies of Minecraft have been shifted, on top of all the microtransaction income and cross-licensing. It is, for want of a better word, a cash-cow.
However, 14-years-old prefer other games, like LOL, MK etc.
I do not have a problem with children who are playing minecraft.
You forgot the biggest game of them all - Fortnite.
As TheMasterCaver pointed out, Minecraft sales have been doing better than before and let's not forget that most Minecraft users these days do not play on the PC version but instead play on console and mobile devices.
You may find Minecraft boring and that's fine.
I think it's easy for some people to point out the lower population of several popular servers such as Mineplex and generalise that the game is dying as a whole. No, it's not.
People's interests and preferences change. I certainly didn't play the same games 5 years ago as I do now.
As more people get tired of Minecraft and move on to other games, there will always be new players coming to the game.
See this article. Yes, 8 milions of people played the game before 1.4 (Alpha and Beta include), but is nothing compared to the people that played Minecraft after 1.4. Minecraft is more know for the people since 2013 and more than 10.000.000 of people played the game. Minecraft is not dying.
As TheMasterCaver pointed out, Minecraft sales have been doing better than before and let's not forget that most Minecraft users these days do not play on the PC version but instead play on console and mobile devices.
It is worth noting that PC (Java) sales have been a small of all sales since at least 2012 - before the game "peaked" according to measures like Google Trends (or Microsoft buying the game, which again has had no impact on its development):
If you look at the current lifetime sales of around 28 million for the PC and 144 million overall (as of the last official figures) PC sales are about 19% of all sales, which is pretty good if they were already as little as 16% of all sales in 2012, before the game came out on at least a dozen other platforms.
This is more or less the case for any multiplatform game; mobile games are the largest market segment by revenue (if Minecraft is any indication mobile games usually cost less than their console/PC versions so this means that sales are even higher) and this will likely continue to grow:
Minecraft is completely awesome. I don't know if it's declining overall, but it's not in my little universe, it's on the up and up. I'm 44 (old hey) and barely knew about Minecraft until my 4yo son (now a 5yo son) showed me a clip on Youtube Kids. We both started playing MCPE, loved it, and recently moved to the Java version. I'm not aware of any other game where two players separated by a million years (maybe it just seems that way) can be *completely* engrossed by it.
Minecraft isn't dying, just the YouTube community around it.
For one, mods are still supported as long as you install Forge, and as such user-generated content is never going out of style, even on the Java edition. (But to be fair, that's the version all the vets use.)
Second, Minecraft still has new content to come, if the new snapshots are anything to go by. Mojang still has the potential to release major content updates to breathe new life into the game/
Third, the Google Trends data doesn't show playtime or players quitting, does it? It only shows searches for the term Minecraft in general. It's only going down since at this point, with the crafting recipe book now a thing, people don't need to search for crafting recipes anymore since the game keeps a library of them for you. Also, other searches related to Minecraft are going down, but that's because of it being easier to find mods, servers, resource packs, etc. on a website (or an ingame menu in the case of Bedrock Edition) than using Google.
Finally, Minecraft has huge replay-ability value due to the fact it's a unique experience every time. Sure, the hard content never changes, but one play-through is never the same as another. No base is exactly the same (unless you use the same setup each time, but I'm not judging), and the time it takes to "beat" the game (aka get the post-Ender Dragon text wall) varies due to luck (well, procedural generation, but still).
Overall, Minecraft itself won't die, it's just that people get bored and stop playing. This is why Minecraft youtubers are quitting at this point - they've been playing for so long that everything becomes predictable, as procedural generation is as only as random as the seed. Those that remain find interests outside of normal gameplay - testing the limits of Minecraft's coding and programming, making absurd Redstone contraptions, finding hidden features, playing maps, etc.
So here's to many more years of Minecraft, and to it's legacy the day Minecraft is officially "finished".
It is worth noting that PC (Java) sales have been a small of all sales since at least 2012 - before the game "peaked" according to measures like Google Trends (or Microsoft buying the game, which again has had no impact on its development):
If you look at the current lifetime sales of around 28 million for the PC and 144 million overall (as of the last official figures) PC sales are about 19% of all sales, which is pretty good if they were already as little as 16% of all sales in 2012, before the game came out on at least a dozen other platforms.
This is more or less the case for any multiplatform game; mobile games are the largest market segment by revenue (if Minecraft is any indication mobile games usually cost less than their console/PC versions so this means that sales are even higher) and this will likely continue to grow:
Sales means nothing into the deteriorating quality and passion that is now in the game. It doesn't even indicate the growth of Playerbase as most of the new account bought are probably just alts for a player who gets banned or other stuff.
Boy, oh, boy. Mrstealyoursanity yet again stating his own opinions as facts. Dude, just stop for a minute and think: Majority of new sales come from mobile and consoles (and I expect it soon to be from Bedrock, since that Xbox there probs are changing to Bedrock sales, as Xbox One edition is now part of Bedrock edition). It's not "banned" people buying new alt accounts. Don't, again, state your delusions as a facts, if you don't have proof.
As for, again, "is Minecraft dying?!!!!?!!!1111!!1" No. It's NOT dying. Having big servers declining, because of the controversial (that's indeed way more controversial, than I originally believed it to be) Combat system, that we got in 1.9 doesn't mean, that the game would be dying. The game still get new players on daily basis, mainly on other platforms, that aren't Java, even though java version has it's own new players every day as well. Is it declining in popularity? Not really, either. This thread surfacing again, and again as someone either necroes it, or starts new one, because they for some reason can't (probably because they're lazy) use the search function is like beating a dead horse. It's redundant, and in the end doesn't lead anywhere else, than same old and tired opinions thrown as a facts, even though there's someone, like MasterCaver, who instantly proves the "Minecraft is dying!!!!!!11!!" opinions as wrong one with well reasoned statements, that can't really be debunked in any way.
Answer in short: No, the game is not dying. It's still getting new content (albeit, content, that some people doesn't like, but new content never-the-less. If it would be "dying" it wouldn't be getting anymore content updates, nor it would of gotten the block id-limit somewhat removed. Or done some stability fixes,that I don't understand at all anyways...
I'd like to point out that the argument that the game is dying because many Youtubers don't play it anymore, is invalid and unrelated to Minecraft. Youtube has been making some controversial changes to its monetization and search policies, mainly in an effort to crack down on offensive and somewhat extremist content. This started at the beginning of 2017, but peaked after a certain Youtuber decided to post a rather offensive video back in December of that year. Youtube has also changed its policies for obtaining ad revenue. In the past, all you needed was 10,000 views minimum to start generating revenue. Now, it's something like 4,000 views a month and 1,000 subscribers a month. This policy doesn't really apply to the guys who have multiple millions of subscribers, but to the guys who have 500,000, 100,000, 10,000, or less? Looks like they're. The platform doesn't seem to be as open for new creators to come in and make it big like it used to be 4 or 5 years ago. A lot of content creators run full time on YouTube. It's their business. And with the way YouTube has recoded their search preferences as to what a given user will find when he searches for something, it's not lucrative anymore to push out Minecraft related content when providing for yourself and possibly a family comes first.
Think of it like this. You own a small store and you carry this brand of cookies that are your absolute favorite. But lately they're not selling so well, but another brand is and it's something you could easily import into your store. Do you keep the brand you love, or switch to the other one so that you can keep providing for yourself?
This answer addresses the YouTube side of things. Content Creators getting burned out or falling off the map has been discussed prior.
It's a matter of when. So yes, Minecraft is dying. ... All games die, some comeback but some really don't. For me I never was really involved with the Minecraft Community because was a non-conformist kid for some reason.......However, if by the reasoning on whether Minecraft is dying rapidly due to the lack of content and players, well, I don't know where you're getting your information, but there is no sign that Minecraft is a dead game....yet
I love Minecraft quite a bit, though it should have alot more to it by now. It's freaking 2018. But I know they are doing what they can. My building and other methods of gameplay are getting better, since I was never really engaged much in Video Games or Sports this is quite good. I love to play with my friends and family, since it provides a good way to combine our creativity and survival skills. Being Introverted this was my Social Getaway.
On the Youtube side of things, Yes it is dying quickly. Interest in it doesn't seem to be as large anymore, comparing to 2012 (The year I got into it).
There is a reason why the google search trend maybe deteriorating but doesn't signify the game's demuse.
A. A lot of people already know what Minecraft. So chances are, if a people were to buy Minecraft. They probably won't search the game on Google.
B. Minecraft isn't the same game perceived 3 or 4 years ago ever since it's the only game that brings massive innovation which is complete freedom on that time. Nowadays, innovation in the game industry comes in different form.
Sales means nothing into the deteriorating quality and passion that is now in the game. It doesn't even indicate the growth of Playerbase as most of the new account bought are probably just alts for a player who gets banned or other stuff.
Alts isn't exactly an orthodox thing in non-java version of the game.
Even tho i don't really play this game anymore, it would be way too far fetch to say this game is dead, just this January they reached 74 million players active playing this game. Does that sound like a dead game? Here is what i consider a dead game when it follows two conditions 1.When devs stop supporting it or two. when it loses almost all of its player base. Neither of these things had happened and i don't believe they will. The ppl that say Minecarft is dying are just ppl that got bored with it or got blinded by nostalgia of the early days (or just because they hated minecarft to begin with) of pre-Minecraft 1.8. They think that if they can't enjoy the game anymore than others shouldn't either, but they needed an excuse on why they now hate it so they start this whole Minecraft-is-dying thing.
I think the better reframe the question as: Is JAVA version of Minecraft drying?
I would say it's struggling. Microsoft has no love for Java due to issues with rival company, Oracle, who owns Java.
Thus MS would like see Mojang move on from Java. It's vulnerable, it's modded all the time and it's harder to code than what Win10 version and bedrock versions are, they can't be modded to extent that Java can.
Thus i say maybe within 5 years we will see change from Java. It won't be good, for myself anyways. Since i prefer the modded serves of mc. Why heck would i want be stuck in generic pay-to-play version MC that has less flexibility in it? Nope.
It's just not the community's golden age anymore.. It's just that the community don't really stand as one these days.. back then, people stand together... especially on map collaboration and stuff.. there were maps like the code, diversity, herobrine's mansion/returns, ect.. those maps keeps the community together. I do belive this game starts falling apart since skyDoesMinecraft started the whole try not to laugh challenge and stuff like that as his fanbase was huge.. another thing i see is that this "generation" don't really stands out.. I remember seeing people like Sethbling doing insane redstones.. it keeps the community motivated to do more.. these days, it's just different..
I wouldn't say this game is dead, it's just not moving in an exciting way for it to be noticed as good anymore..
", sans-serif">Minecraft is dying. Somehow people just join by cracked minecraft thats why minecraft would stop being sold out and this is why we should not sell minecraft for free. Minecraft is dying the correct answer of it
Your dear,
Enemy.
Btw `do you live in America?
THINGS NOT TO DO IN MINECRAFT:
SPAM
GRIEFING
HACKING
KILLING
EVIL
SHARING
What things i wnat to be added:
TREES!! Green trees omg that will be cool!
Noob man
Planes fly through the minecfraff world
1.10 was sort of a mini-update which was released shortly after 1.9 and seriously, a couple of months isn't enough time to develop a HUGE update. Also just because youtubers are slowly leaving minecraft and a bunch of people are going around yelling "minecraft is dead" isn't enough to announce that everyone had lost interest in minecraft and it's just a kids game now. Also you were a kid once and these kids are gonna grow up and become map makers and modders and the new members of the huge community minecraft has. It's just evolving not dying.
As long as this thread was necroed I thought I've give an update on how well the game has done since my last post, where they had sold 122 million copies and there were 55 million monthly active players:
Well, who was right?
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
That's ONE update. One. and you cherrypick the smallest update on that time.
Lol no. Just read what 1.12 has to offer and the amount of bugs fixed in the update.
You forgot the biggest game of them all - Fortnite.
As TheMasterCaver pointed out, Minecraft sales have been doing better than before and let's not forget that most Minecraft users these days do not play on the PC version but instead play on console and mobile devices.
You may find Minecraft boring and that's fine.
I think it's easy for some people to point out the lower population of several popular servers such as Mineplex and generalise that the game is dying as a whole. No, it's not.
People's interests and preferences change. I certainly didn't play the same games 5 years ago as I do now.
As more people get tired of Minecraft and move on to other games, there will always be new players coming to the game.
See this article. Yes, 8 milions of people played the game before 1.4 (Alpha and Beta include), but is nothing compared to the people that played Minecraft after 1.4. Minecraft is more know for the people since 2013 and more than 10.000.000 of people played the game. Minecraft is not dying.
It is worth noting that PC (Java) sales have been a small of all sales since at least 2012 - before the game "peaked" according to measures like Google Trends (or Microsoft buying the game, which again has had no impact on its development):
http://www.gamesbrief.com/2013/01/minecraft-grosses-over-250-million-in-2012-but-which-platform-dominated/
If you look at the current lifetime sales of around 28 million for the PC and 144 million overall (as of the last official figures) PC sales are about 19% of all sales, which is pretty good if they were already as little as 16% of all sales in 2012, before the game came out on at least a dozen other platforms.
This is more or less the case for any multiplatform game; mobile games are the largest market segment by revenue (if Minecraft is any indication mobile games usually cost less than their console/PC versions so this means that sales are even higher) and this will likely continue to grow:
https://america.cgtn.com/2018/02/27/mobile-gaming-revenue-takes-over-pc-and-console-games
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Minecraft is completely awesome. I don't know if it's declining overall, but it's not in my little universe, it's on the up and up. I'm 44 (old hey) and barely knew about Minecraft until my 4yo son (now a 5yo son) showed me a clip on Youtube Kids. We both started playing MCPE, loved it, and recently moved to the Java version. I'm not aware of any other game where two players separated by a million years (maybe it just seems that way) can be *completely* engrossed by it.
http://dexanddad.com - Minecraft fun with the boy
Minecraft isn't dying, just the YouTube community around it.
For one, mods are still supported as long as you install Forge, and as such user-generated content is never going out of style, even on the Java edition. (But to be fair, that's the version all the vets use.)
Second, Minecraft still has new content to come, if the new snapshots are anything to go by. Mojang still has the potential to release major content updates to breathe new life into the game/
Third, the Google Trends data doesn't show playtime or players quitting, does it? It only shows searches for the term Minecraft in general. It's only going down since at this point, with the crafting recipe book now a thing, people don't need to search for crafting recipes anymore since the game keeps a library of them for you. Also, other searches related to Minecraft are going down, but that's because of it being easier to find mods, servers, resource packs, etc. on a website (or an ingame menu in the case of Bedrock Edition) than using Google.
Finally, Minecraft has huge replay-ability value due to the fact it's a unique experience every time. Sure, the hard content never changes, but one play-through is never the same as another. No base is exactly the same (unless you use the same setup each time, but I'm not judging), and the time it takes to "beat" the game (aka get the post-Ender Dragon text wall) varies due to luck (well, procedural generation, but still).
Overall, Minecraft itself won't die, it's just that people get bored and stop playing. This is why Minecraft youtubers are quitting at this point - they've been playing for so long that everything becomes predictable, as procedural generation is as only as random as the seed. Those that remain find interests outside of normal gameplay - testing the limits of Minecraft's coding and programming, making absurd Redstone contraptions, finding hidden features, playing maps, etc.
So here's to many more years of Minecraft, and to it's legacy the day Minecraft is officially "finished".
Sales means nothing into the deteriorating quality and passion that is now in the game. It doesn't even indicate the growth of Playerbase as most of the new account bought are probably just alts for a player who gets banned or other stuff.
Boy, oh, boy. Mrstealyoursanity yet again stating his own opinions as facts. Dude, just stop for a minute and think: Majority of new sales come from mobile and consoles (and I expect it soon to be from Bedrock, since that Xbox there probs are changing to Bedrock sales, as Xbox One edition is now part of Bedrock edition). It's not "banned" people buying new alt accounts. Don't, again, state your delusions as a facts, if you don't have proof.
As for, again, "is Minecraft dying?!!!!?!!!1111!!1" No. It's NOT dying. Having big servers declining, because of the controversial (that's indeed way more controversial, than I originally believed it to be) Combat system, that we got in 1.9 doesn't mean, that the game would be dying. The game still get new players on daily basis, mainly on other platforms, that aren't Java, even though java version has it's own new players every day as well. Is it declining in popularity? Not really, either. This thread surfacing again, and again as someone either necroes it, or starts new one, because they for some reason can't (probably because they're lazy) use the search function is like beating a dead horse. It's redundant, and in the end doesn't lead anywhere else, than same old and tired opinions thrown as a facts, even though there's someone, like MasterCaver, who instantly proves the "Minecraft is dying!!!!!!11!!" opinions as wrong one with well reasoned statements, that can't really be debunked in any way.
Answer in short: No, the game is not dying. It's still getting new content (albeit, content, that some people doesn't like, but new content never-the-less. If it would be "dying" it wouldn't be getting anymore content updates, nor it would of gotten the block id-limit somewhat removed. Or done some stability fixes,that I don't understand at all anyways...
I'd like to point out that the argument that the game is dying because many Youtubers don't play it anymore, is invalid and unrelated to Minecraft. Youtube has been making some controversial changes to its monetization and search policies, mainly in an effort to crack down on offensive and somewhat extremist content. This started at the beginning of 2017, but peaked after a certain Youtuber decided to post a rather offensive video back in December of that year. Youtube has also changed its policies for obtaining ad revenue. In the past, all you needed was 10,000 views minimum to start generating revenue. Now, it's something like 4,000 views a month and 1,000 subscribers a month. This policy doesn't really apply to the guys who have multiple millions of subscribers, but to the guys who have 500,000, 100,000, 10,000, or less? Looks like they're. The platform doesn't seem to be as open for new creators to come in and make it big like it used to be 4 or 5 years ago. A lot of content creators run full time on YouTube. It's their business. And with the way YouTube has recoded their search preferences as to what a given user will find when he searches for something, it's not lucrative anymore to push out Minecraft related content when providing for yourself and possibly a family comes first.
Think of it like this. You own a small store and you carry this brand of cookies that are your absolute favorite. But lately they're not selling so well, but another brand is and it's something you could easily import into your store. Do you keep the brand you love, or switch to the other one so that you can keep providing for yourself?
This answer addresses the YouTube side of things. Content Creators getting burned out or falling off the map has been discussed prior.
It's a matter of when. So yes, Minecraft is dying. ... All games die, some comeback but some really don't. For me I never was really involved with the Minecraft Community because was a non-conformist kid for some reason.......However, if by the reasoning on whether Minecraft is dying rapidly due to the lack of content and players, well, I don't know where you're getting your information, but there is no sign that Minecraft is a dead game....yet
I love Minecraft quite a bit, though it should have alot more to it by now. It's freaking 2018. But I know they are doing what they can. My building and other methods of gameplay are getting better, since I was never really engaged much in Video Games or Sports this is quite good. I love to play with my friends and family, since it provides a good way to combine our creativity and survival skills. Being Introverted this was my Social Getaway.
On the Youtube side of things, Yes it is dying quickly. Interest in it doesn't seem to be as large anymore, comparing to 2012 (The year I got into it).
Anyway that's my take, Peace out!
There is a reason why the google search trend maybe deteriorating but doesn't signify the game's demuse.
A. A lot of people already know what Minecraft. So chances are, if a people were to buy Minecraft. They probably won't search the game on Google.
B. Minecraft isn't the same game perceived 3 or 4 years ago ever since it's the only game that brings massive innovation which is complete freedom on that time. Nowadays, innovation in the game industry comes in different form.
Alts isn't exactly an orthodox thing in non-java version of the game.
Anyone have line graphs showing statistics like monthly active players or hours played per month over time?
If you follow your heart, it will only lead to your arteries.
TheMasterCaver does, look at the first few pages
Even tho i don't really play this game anymore, it would be way too far fetch to say this game is dead, just this January they reached 74 million players active playing this game. Does that sound like a dead game? Here is what i consider a dead game when it follows two conditions 1.When devs stop supporting it or two. when it loses almost all of its player base. Neither of these things had happened and i don't believe they will. The ppl that say Minecarft is dying are just ppl that got bored with it or got blinded by nostalgia of the early days (or just because they hated minecarft to begin with) of pre-Minecraft 1.8. They think that if they can't enjoy the game anymore than others shouldn't either, but they needed an excuse on why they now hate it so they start this whole Minecraft-is-dying thing.
I think the better reframe the question as: Is JAVA version of Minecraft drying?
I would say it's struggling. Microsoft has no love for Java due to issues with rival company, Oracle, who owns Java.
Thus MS would like see Mojang move on from Java. It's vulnerable, it's modded all the time and it's harder to code than what Win10 version and bedrock versions are, they can't be modded to extent that Java can.
Thus i say maybe within 5 years we will see change from Java. It won't be good, for myself anyways. Since i prefer the modded serves of mc. Why heck would i want be stuck in generic pay-to-play version MC that has less flexibility in it? Nope.
I looked at all his posts (on this thread), clicked all his links, and no line graphs. Is there anyone who records Minecraft statistics over time?
If you follow your heart, it will only lead to your arteries.