So Long, and Thanks for All the Feedback - Minecraft Devs leave Reddit
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Just saw this, and didnt see it here.
The minecraft devs have decided that Reddit is no longer a suitable place for their official discussions.
It’s a big deal. Minecraft is a huge community, most of the big YouTubers or Streamers become big because of it or Fortnite.
You also have to remember that it’s Microsoft behind Minecraft, it’s the second GAFAM after Google which is unhappy with the situation.
It’s definitely gonna affect the IPO negatively.
At this point, anyone who thinks Reddit will come out of this smelling like roses is an idiot.
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Note that the subreddit will not disappear. All this means is that the actual Minecraft devs will no longer be using it for official announcements / collect feedback (that's why the "thanks for the feedback"). Instead now they ask people to use the existing feedback channels.
It might affect the IPO if this happens more generally or causes a trend, but I don't think it's such a big deal. It's not like they are sunsetting the subreddit. And even if they did, the reddit admins can simply mark the channel as abandoned and allow for new mods to take it over. So the community there will most likely continue as it was. I bet most people didn't even know the official devs were there.
It's also the no 1 best selling video game of all time, by a sizable margin, so it would be a big deal regardless.