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Minecraft was a better game under the original developer. Just recently saw that I can buy Minecraft coins at a tank stop. A really sad development of an awesome game which had an insurmountable amount of free content. Don't know what I expected with the acquisition though.

I don't think I will migrate my account, currently in the process of migrating away from Windows for good.

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Honestly I'm in the same boat, I bought a copy of MC 10 years ago and love the game. Watching it grow just as a game and in the speedrunning community, SMPs, builds, Let's Plays, etc has been staggering. But now I'm left questioning what this move means and if the game is taking a different turn from the creative freedom that made it successful in the first place.

To be honest I haven't played it in ages, but there was a time when I enjoyed it with some friends on our self hosted server.

It is still successful and it is probably a completely transformed game by now, but ultimately I think they want to lure people into their environment. I also wouldn't want my kids playing it because of the monetization.

The version you like is still available... you can play the game and run a server in any version you want. Java has no monetization.

But is still being pulled into Microsoft accounts.

Enough is enough, I'm done with this.

The only game that I'm willing to play with a Microsoft account is the MCC - and that's because I bought it knowing I would need an account, then made a throwaway email and MS account to play it with.

> Don't know what I expected with the acquisition though.

A business buys a product for 2.5Bn, there's going to want to make 10Bn in return.

To clarify, the original Java version of Minecraft is essentially the same game with more gameplay features, the Bedrock version is the one with the microtransactions. Plus, the Java launcher lets you use any version going back more than a decade, so if you're not happy with the new features you can just pretend they never happened like some parts of the modded community do with versions after 1.7.10.

Wait so literally EEE. I thought MS was done with that.

Until you get rootkitted from Log4J

It looks like they brought the security fixes to all versions via the launcher. https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/4416199399693-S...

Ever since Microsoft took the lead they've kept adding and adding. New blocks, items, mechanics. Minecraft was supposed to be about simplicity. MS has pushed their own agenda for the game and torched everything it used to be. They reworked graphics just because they didn't like them.

"Minecraft was supposed to be about simplicity."

Minecraft was supposed to be a toy project Notch wanted to mess around with. Simplicity has never been a target, since every major release, including during the in/infdev days has had major changes.

> Minecraft was supposed to be about simplicity.

...redstone circuits aren't exactly the definition of simplicity.

My kids seem to love all the new mechanics and items, and spend hours building things or fighting Orcs in a LOTR mod together, so I'm getting a lot of value from three MC licences.

I will always be nostalgic for 2011 Minecraft. Sandstone was cool, dogs were cool, pistons were cool, villagers not so much, IMHO. Less was more, man.

In preparation for the transfer, I've been playing with friends the last few weeks and I don't know that I agree that it was a better game. It feels like there's still not a lot of other games out there quite like it--often imitated, never duplicated.

That said, I do agree that I likely won't be migrating my account. It's a good excuse to go through another cycle of addiction with the game.

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