I mean, EA gets all kinds of guff, but it doesn't stop THEM from micro-transacting people to hell and back. They give no cares about any alleged 'PR Nightmare', bluntly no one would care enough about it. They simply don't care enough about the modded minecraft community to support it, so they won't. modded minecraft community is a rounding error to them. All it would be is a PR nightmare nobody wants.Ĭlick to expand.You'v got it part right. There's just no reason to kill it off at all. Hell, its very existence is just a reason for someone to buy additional licenses (I have 3 of 'em myself).

I'd wager to say that the modded Minecraft community is a rounding error to them, and the java version of Minecraft won't affect the licenses they sell to schools and whatnot. They're going to make their money selling Minecraft licenses. They're included as a little bit of extra revenue, basically enough to support the additional development, but that's it. They will always have some cosmetics and whatnot to sell you, but nothing they've ever said so far leads me to believe they have any interest in killing off the rest to support that part of the business.īasically, optional cosmetic purchases aren't worth a damn. I just don't see how phasing out the java version or the modding community accomplishes that at all. Don't get me wrong, I am also speculating.

Minecraft back to the future mod