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Definitely interesting to see continued innovation in this space after so many years. At Hypixel Minecraft we forked Spigot (another modded Minecraft platform) back in late 2014 to be able to rip out a bunch of vanilla mechanics that we knew that we wouldn't need for our workloads and optimize the interactions with other pieces of our infrastructure, while still maintaining full compatibility with our existing Java plugins.

Honestly the biggest uphill battle that Hyperion is going to face is rebuilding the decade-plus of existing Java plugins and functionality that have become ubiquitous in the Minecraft ecosystem, like Permissions, Anti-grief, Anticheat, etc which have had decades of man-hours invested into perfecting their functionality. Some of this can likely be ported and knowledge reused, but _someone_ is going to have to actually do the heavy lifting of porting it into a language that has a (relative to Java) higher learning curve.

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You think Minecraft will live for decades still?

I think so.

Look at world of warcraft.

Who knows! Minecraft continually loops through resurgences in popularity every few years. That said, I more meant there's an immense amount of inertia in the existing ecosystem, so even ignoring future years: simply launching a "generic Minecraft server" with all the usual bells-and-whistles to run a community of 20-100 people is a tall order.

As someone whose 27 now, I'm pretty shocked by the longevity of some of the games that I played growing up.

Games like Minecraft, Supercell, Geometry dash just to list a few, are arguably STRONGER today than they were 10/15 years ago. Even snapchat, I thought was gonna die after 2020 but my nephews today are using it more than ever.

Whereas, for my cousins who are around 40 now, basically all of the games that they played growing up are dead.

So. I can kinda see minecraft being around for another decade to say the least. It doesn't even feel that crazy for it to be around for another century... or even the rest of humanity? (like bicycles?)

> Whereas, for my cousins who are around 40 now, basically all of the games that they played growing up are dead.

Brood war is a big game from that generation which is still played. Isn't counterstrike also from roughly that generation's youth?

Definitely. At some point it'll be "retro gaming" but there will still be people playing it. It's already a classic.

I don't know about that. With some graphics mods, Minecraft can look like an entirely new game. Heck, I think even vanilla Minecraft is getting basic shaders.

The seven year olds at my daughter's school are just discovering it.

Which means that in two decades, it'll be nostalgia for them.

It'll last at least that long.

Its the lego for a generation, it will probably outlive Nintendo by the looks of where they are heading..

My nieces and nephews are 6-10 and they are all obsessed with Minecraft. I don't see any signs of it stopping. But I could see Microsoft making Minecraft 2 and it going terribly.

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