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[–] jcg@halubilo.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But it’s good that viable alternatives exist in case Microsoft ever considers shutting down the Java edition.

I had never even considered that as a possibility but now it seems all too possible and I'm gonna have to sit with that for a while...

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

They will. The whole enda id / stream account nonsense is already the first step in that direction.

Minecraft will only produce income if modding is done via some AppStore. Since this isn't exactly what we want they have either kill java or disable modding and add their AppStore there.