[stonemetal12]

Thanks (seriously). Fandom may not be great, but you could have said I don't want to foot the bill, turned off the servers and walked away. Then the community would have lost every thing. Leaving it with Fandom gave Weird Gloop something to start with instead starting from scratch.

[beAbU]

I can't imagine that this would have happened, like ever. The wiki was basically essential reading prior to starting to play Minecraft, especially in the early days. I think most the crafting recipes were documented by the developers themselves during those days.

If they killed the wiki, they would have killed their userbase.

[lolinder]

citricsquid wasn't a Mojang employee. This whole thing is and always has been community-run [0], so the "they" in "if they killed the wiki" is not the same as the "they" that was selling Minecraft.

Now, one could reasonably ask why Mojang/Microsoft didn't (and I'm assuming don't) foot the bill for the manual that is an essential part of their game.

[0] https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki_(website)