MINECRAFT developer Mojang has made the difficult decision to step back from the player base.
Mojang is known for having an open dialogue with Minecraft’s community, changing the game thanks to players’ feedback.
The company behind Minecraft has announced that it’s leaving Reddit and will no longer be using the social media platform to communicate with fans.
Earlier this month Reddit made changes to its policy, and decided to charge third-party apps to use its data.
The official Reddit app is known to contain a number of bugs, and so many users access the website via other apps that improve the reading experience and have more accessibility options.
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These third-party apps have now shut down, as they don’t wish to pay the huge price that Reddit is asking for.
Reddit’s content is completely made by its user base, as people share stories and upload interesting photos and videos to the platform.
In response to the change, many of the larger pages decided to shut down or go private.
However, Reddit decided to step in by reopening pages by force, taking over from the communities’ hard effort against their wishes.
This has led some to take drastic measures. Some of the most popular pages like r/pics and r/gifs now only show content of comedian John Oliver.
Others have opened the page to adult content so that Reddit cannot make money from advertising.
Mojang has taken a different path, and the developer will no longer be communicating with Minecraft players via Reddit.
Reddit was one of the best ways for Minecraft users to speak to the developers and report issues, and Mojang employees were diligent in answering players' concerns there.
The last message reads: “As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits.
“Because of these changes, we no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer our players to.
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“We want to thank you for all the feedback and discussion you've participated in in past changelog threads.
“You are of course welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward, and if you want to reach the team with feedback about the game, please visit our feedback site.”
While the page will not shut down, players will no longer be able to contact the developers this way.
Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.