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People have said they're going to stop support the Java edition since the day Microsoft bought Mojang, but I really doubt it's in their current plans. If they w
by jamilton 3y ago
People have said they're going to stop support the Java edition since the day Microsoft bought Mojang, but I really doubt it's in their current plans. If they were planning to, they'd just stop updating it, there would be no point in doing this migration in the first place.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoModders would keep it alive, I'm sure. That's already one of the major reasons why people don't want to migrate away from Java edition. In fact if Minecraft stopped updating Java edition that would make things a lot easier for modders. No more game updates breaking your mods.
- b800h 3y agoYou think they'd leave logins for it running when people could be playing Bedrock and paying for Realms?
- jamilton 3y agoRealms is on Java too.
- squeaky-clean 3y agoYou can already remove the login from the client extremely easily today, and the server as long as you're willing to self-host.
- MagicMoonlight 3y agoDoesn’t matter, it’s all java. You can just remove the authentication.
- drunkpotato 3y agoThanksgiving comes a day closer every day, my turkey friend.
- jamilton 3y agoI mean, they’ll shut it down eventually, because nothing lasts forever. But that’s a different claim than “this is part of the plan to shut it down in the next few years”.