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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Kids of today will likely miss Roblox in 15-20 years, but it's unlikely they'll have the chance to play the stuff they missed during their childhoods (programming.dev)

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Reminiscing on how kids of the 80s, 90s and 00s can all get games of their respective times via emulation and piracy, but anything inside Roblox is likely to be inaccessible when present day kids become adults and look back with nostalgia

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Minecraft is also fairly popular and will definitely be available

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never be too sure about "will definitely be avalible". Microsoft/Mojang is doing evreything in their power to lock minecraft down and end the days of mods, backward support, and buy once own forever.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How? They continue to develop Java alongside Bedrock and maintain both equally. Microsoft has had a decade to wind down Java but they don't. It seems like a general distrust of Microsoft is tainting their support for a developer, which history shows is inaccurate.

[–] gerald_eliasweb@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microsoft has been developing Minecraft for less than five years and ever since they have slowly been moving away from the FOSS-ish development style.

[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Independent Mojang never had a FOSS-ish development style. For the most direct thing, Minecraft only released code deobfuscation mappings after five years of being a Microsoft subsidiary.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

The problem with that is people will have had to back up every individual update ( or at least the ones people will wanna play most of all at the bare minimum ) and find ways to make both java and bugrock edition work without need for an account if mojangles and macrohard ever decide to axe the game at any point.

I have no doubt the majority of updates have been backed up by some data hoarder for Java edition, but I don't know how that would work for bugrock edition.