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I’m still baffled that Minecraft is doing so well, despite the whole Bedrock thing. At this point I think Microsoft just forgot that they bought Mojang.

7777332215 7mo ago
Minecraft is a trick up their sleeve yet to be used. Manipulate and indoctrinate the youth.
- Biganon 7mo ago
  Indoctrinated by cubic cows
PaulKeeble 7mo ago
Its had its fair share of outages and outrageous changes that overreach the bounds as well. Its more stable than github is but its had at least 2 sessions of downtime this year that I recall and they were both quite long (day length).
spauldo 7mo ago
They'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not like Java is a threat anymore.
- AndroTux 7mo ago
  Exactly. So why isn't Microsoft doing just that? Isn't that how Microsoft usually handles things? Just look at Xbox. They essentially screwed up everything they could and then some.
cedws 7mo ago
If I remember correctly UK players can no longer chat at all until they verify their ID.
joshribakoff 7mo ago
They don’t enforce or even default to 2fa to change the account email. In addition, they have no process to get a human to reverse account takeovers. Just a web form that tells you to call a number that redirects you back to a web form
- hedora 7mo ago
  On the other hand, they aggressively log out legitimate users, and require the master Microsoft account password to log back in (because your kids need access to your one drive settings, etc).
hedora 7mo ago
They've made it borderline impossible to log in, especially for children. I just use an offline server, so I wouldn't notice if they had GitHub levels of availability.
mghackerlady 7mo ago
I think they largely let mojang do its own thing, occasionally forcing them to make some dumb change that usually stays exclusive to their "bedrock edition". The mojang people capitulate since the original version and the one they actually develop for is largely untouched by microsofts decision making since the backlash for dumb decisions would lose infinitely more money than if they just let it continue to be a cash cow

7777332215 7mo ago

Minecraft is a trick up their sleeve yet to be used. Manipulate and indoctrinate the youth.

Biganon 7mo ago
Indoctrinated by cubic cows

PaulKeeble 7mo ago

Its had its fair share of outages and outrageous changes that overreach the bounds as well. Its more stable than github is but its had at least 2 sessions of downtime this year that I recall and they were both quite long (day length).

spauldo 7mo ago

They'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not like Java is a threat anymore.

AndroTux 7mo ago
Exactly. So why isn't Microsoft doing just that? Isn't that how Microsoft usually handles things? Just look at Xbox. They essentially screwed up everything they could and then some.

cedws 7mo ago

If I remember correctly UK players can no longer chat at all until they verify their ID.

joshribakoff 7mo ago

They don’t enforce or even default to 2fa to change the account email. In addition, they have no process to get a human to reverse account takeovers. Just a web form that tells you to call a number that redirects you back to a web form

hedora 7mo ago
On the other hand, they aggressively log out legitimate users, and require the master Microsoft account password to log back in (because your kids need access to your one drive settings, etc).

hedora 7mo ago

They've made it borderline impossible to log in, especially for children. I just use an offline server, so I wouldn't notice if they had GitHub levels of availability.

mghackerlady 7mo ago

I think they largely let mojang do its own thing, occasionally forcing them to make some dumb change that usually stays exclusive to their "bedrock edition". The mojang people capitulate since the original version and the one they actually develop for is largely untouched by microsofts decision making since the backlash for dumb decisions would lose infinitely more money than if they just let it continue to be a cash cow