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this was horrible for the v1.8.9 Minecraft scene (obscure I know). Cheaters could pay $1 to make an account, cheat on it till they got banned, then refund the dollar and make a new account with the same $1.
Now anticheats are better than they were a few years ago but still, essentially free accounts to cheat on isn't helping.
Wait... cheating in Minecraft? Aren't most servers private?
For the modern versions mostly. 1.8.9 has pvp and minigames where cheating is more similar to cheating in a FPS kinda game where it actually harms people. Also during the $1 sale Minecraft was in the middle of a population boom (iirc due to Dream getting popular) so the moderation was overwhelmed. Here's an example of what cheating looks like
https://youtu.be/MD0khw_V0WA
Wow didn't know it turned into more than a block builder. I'm going to have to revisit the game lol last time I played was like 8 years ago now.
Yeah, there's a bunch of new stuff. I got it when it was in beta or something back in 2011 or so, and my kids wanted to try it, so I dug out my old credentials. It has come a long way from when I last played in the mid 2010s.
It's still largely a block builder, but there's a ton more complexity to it now, even on vanilla MC. My understanding is that most servers run a bunch of mods, and there are a ton of crazy mods out there these days, so it's more a platform than anything at this point.
Nice, I might have to dig it back out, my account I know I had to transfer to like Microsoft or something a few years ago.