Totally forgot about Notch and his "views". Had a little read of the Controversies section of his Wikipedia page for memory job. Yep, cunt.

> Has that affected the core game though?

Yes

> There's more content, but the mechanics seem identical to how it was years ago.

No

> does it make the game any worse, or any less enjoyable?

Both


Notch could have followed up on his promise to open source the game when he got bored of it and still struck a licensing deal with Microsoft for the brand/etc. Microsoft could then go ahead with everything they're doing, but there'd also be a Open Source fork that'd maintain Linux support and make the shit changes optional.