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by brucethemoose2
1107 days ago
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> Minecraft and Mojang/Microsoft introducing terrible new rules that censor all minecraft servers This one is different than the other examples - The new chat system is bad, but not that disruptive like the other examples. - I believe Mojang/MS were motivated by immense pressure to keep Minecraft kid friendly, predator free and so on, not pure profit (as with every other example). Minecraft's real user base is young kids, and they don't cleanly fit into the power/casual user dichotomy. - For all of their (many) faults, Mojang has been extremely conservative with Minecraft JE development. BE has issues, but is not that bad, and IMO the whole franchise is a decent example of how to avoid enshittification. |
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I remember watching a lot of popular minecraft creators make detailed videos on why it's bad and long story short, it seemed pretty disruptive(although that's of course merely an opinion of mine and not something objective).
>motivated by immense pressure to keep Minecraft kid friendly
ultimately it's about profit though isn't it? Minecraft servers have been fine on their own(as evidenced by servers having their own ways of dealing with everything mojang decided they want to deal with directly), if it ain't broke, why fix it? Because keeping minecraft child-friendly will keep those with their money on the line more happy since it certainly is catered towards younger children among other demographics. Also not sure how much experience you have with minecraft but there is a MASSIVE difference between technical(power users) players and casual players and you certainly can cleanly fit users in the dichotomy.
And I agree they've done a decent job all these years, but since the MSFT acquisition, things are slowly going downhill with every update and it feels like MSFT is indeed taking minecraft down the enshittification route.