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They're changing their update pattern to be the same as GaaS games?
Anything to train kids to consume and spend all their money in small increments.
They‘re probably also gonna wreck the modding community with this as it has been hard to keep up already.
I personally will stay with voxelibre as it is open source and doesnt have telemetry baked in.
Java doesn't have microtransactions and all mods and updates are free.
Have you seen kids? Most of them play games exclusively on mobile devices now.
Android has Java through Pojav Launcher
But is that what the kids are using?