Is Minecraft dying?
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As a long Term minecraft player (2009 I think), I have started playing in the browser. The game was hard to understand and often not much fun. This all changed once I understood how to make basic tools. The learning curve wasn't steep, it was a cliff!
Fast forward to today: Minecraft is putting in more and more "fluff", which is not necessarily a bad thing but all those changes recently are geared towards a very young audience, arguably the core audience for Minecraft and therefore Mojang/Microsoft.
Frankly, this is a terrible development for aging minecrafters like myself (I'm mid 30s). We are not the core audience (anymore). For that reason the game's development is not focused on us and won't ever be.
Since very young people are pretty easily distractable, a game that wants to keep this many players will probably have to change quite drastically if it wants to stay relevant. The question here is if this will make it unrecognizable from the game it once was. Some might argue that the introduction of chat control and subsequent bans already made sure the old game is gone.
Let me know what you think about this.