oh holy fucking shit Hypixel Studios got bought by Riot Games

the game's not even out yet and it's already got the folks behind League of Legends on the train. god I hope this game kills minecraft, I hope it fucking destroys minecraft

fuck youuuu microsoft

now see I could go on for a few hours about how shortsighted microsoft/mojang have been and how they're sitting on an untapped pot of gold but I frankly don't want to get myself started again

I have nothing against the game of minecraft.

except for the fact that they keep adding cute critters that ultimately just make the game laggier and more restrictive to run for lower end PCs and servers without properly optimizing it, and the only optimized version of the game, Bedrock, is littered with
unforgivable microtransactions and is virtually unmoddable, and Java is increasingly becoming the afterthought version

fish, actual fish mobs, were causing servers like Hermitcraft to basically be unplayable. FISH. Because they had a schooling behavior that was extremely bad for servers. And parrots, and big bees, and pandas, and so on- they just keep adding cute little animals instead of making any meaningful changes. The Nether Update was the first significant actual change in a long time and I think it only really happened because Hytale's trailer was so successful.

They have consistently thrown technical minecraft players under the bus, and they've also completely ignored the PvP community for several updates, and they are too afraid to touch world generation anymore beyond just tinkering with generated structures a bit. Where are our new biomes? We haven't had a new biome since what, savannahs? Where are our palm tress, our volcanic islands? Regular brown and black bears, sparrows, pigeons, or other non tropical birds?

The modding community is way ahead of the base game at this point, and it's part of why the game remains so popular. Nobody is playing vanilla survival as the primary appeal of the game. The Hypixel server and other gargantuan minecraft servers are running with so many plugins and data packs that they aren't remotely vanilla, even Hermitcraft has their fair share of plugins

Minecraft is in a bad state right now, mainly thanks to microsoft's insidious influence, and Mojang's cowardice to make any significant updates.