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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anything to train kids to consume and spend all their money in small increments.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

They‘re probably also gonna wreck the modding community with this as it has been hard to keep up already.

I personally will stay with voxelibre as it is open source and doesnt have telemetry baked in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Java doesn't have microtransactions and all mods and updates are free.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you seen kids? Most of them play games exclusively on mobile devices now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Android has Java through Pojav Launcher

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

But is that what the kids are using?