You think Minecraft will live for decades still?

Who knows! Minecraft continually loops through resurgences in popularity every few years. That said, I more meant there's an immense amount of inertia in the existing ecosystem, so even ignoring future years: simply launching a "generic Minecraft server" with all the usual bells-and-whistles to run a community of 20-100 people is a tall order.

As someone whose 27 now, I'm pretty shocked by the longevity of some of the games that I played growing up.

Games like Minecraft, Supercell, Geometry dash just to list a few, are arguably STRONGER today than they were 10/15 years ago. Even snapchat, I thought was gonna die after 2020 but my nephews today are using it more than ever.

Whereas, for my cousins who are around 40 now, basically all of the games that they played growing up are dead.

So. I can kinda see minecraft being around for another decade to say the least. It doesn't even feel that crazy for it to be around for another century... or even the rest of humanity? (like bicycles?)

The seven year olds at my daughter's school are just discovering it.

Which means that in two decades, it'll be nostalgia for them.

It'll last at least that long.

I think so.

Look at world of warcraft.

Its the lego for a generation, it will probably outlive Nintendo by the looks of where they are heading..

Definitely. At some point it'll be "retro gaming" but there will still be people playing it. It's already a classic.

My nieces and nephews are 6-10 and they are all obsessed with Minecraft. I don't see any signs of it stopping. But I could see Microsoft making Minecraft 2 and it going terribly.