Minecraft

I'm just confused because they already must have had a lot of money. How much you need?

Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

Minecraft has not significantly degraded the original offerings to Minecraft has not significantly degraded the original offerings to better serve business customers. The only things i can think of are the featured servers and the marketplace on bedrock, which, even tough are bad, both can just be ignored(you can still import skins, datapacks, worlds etc) and trying to claim bedrock is the official version and that its better than java. If you previously had one version of minecraft, you also got the other version for free so the differences between versions are less of a problem

Minecraft has not significantly degraded their services for users and businesses. Other than chat reporting that affects bedrock edition and realms, i dont think there is anything else. Minecraft also had a lot of updates that improved the game

Has minecraft even tried to maximize profits for shareholders?

I havent played on minecraft bedrock for years so sorry if im downplaying the problems of that platform

I dont think that its fair to say that minecraft has been getting worse for profits for 10 years from 5 changes, 4 happening in 2017, and one(that only affects a small group of people) that happened in 2022, while ignoring all the ways minecraft got better

There are so many other things to complain about(everything i listed here, the copper bulb changes, fireflies being removed), but enshittification isnt one of them

elaborate, please, I'm genuinely curious

For bedrock, yes, absolutely. Bedrock used to be lauded for its performance across multiple machines and it now runs like trash on every one with the most egregious storefront in gaming. You can spend 20 extra USD on bedrock to get a single mod-equivalent data pack. You can spend that much or more on minecraft skins that won't work outside of bedrock. Minecoins as a premium currency targeted toward children are one of the worst examples of robbing a low information userbase in gaming all around, it has reached unbelievable levels.

I had only played for a little while after the acquisition, and only with my kids. I have always wondered how the game is doing these days.

It is the only video game my daughter plays, and now that she is in college I have considered putting up a server that her and I can play.

Why would the original owners beliefs affect the morality of supporting a series of games that hes not benefiting from?

They even removed all mentions of notch and added pro-trans splashes

There is no politics in the game. Your task is to survive alone is cubic world, no one even talks. I think that whoever is the original creator is irrelevant.

having to use a Microsoft account to play

I mean... to play on most public servers, yeah, but there are certainly ways to play without an account.

Many changes are fantastic but they add more and more stuff to a game whose inventory was built around having a fifth the number of regular items in your inventory. Shulker boxes are the coolest thing in the game...until they become necessary to manage the bloat, in which case they suck, because now it's just an inventory square that takes forever to use.

They need to double the size of the standard player inventory, at least.

And the stolen accounts.

You forgot bedrock marketplace and chat reporting, altho I would say that over all it wasn't bad (the acquisition)