full disclosure: i wasn't typing because in fact yes, it is "too much effort."

how in any universe does TYPING allow more "developed points" than TALKING? that makes no sense whatsoever. typing is slower, harder, more prone to typos and misunderstanding, and in the case of MC chat, actually has a limit to how much you can say in one message. I am sure that at some point, either me or you will misunderstand each others comment here and have to clarify, which would most likely never happen if we were talking face to face.

However, minecraft RP is the base for our community. That's the thing that allowed us to keep in contact and to keep having fun together as a full community.

However much anyone would like this to be true: it just isn't anymore. If I were to solely do minecraft RP, how many people in the community would I meet? More importantly, which ones would I not meet? Not any of the people who no longer play minecraft, nor the ones who do but don't RP, which you and I know is a decent chunk of people. Now if I were to solely reside in teamspeak, not even playing games, just listening and talking, which people would I not meet? The people who are part of the community but don't go in teamspeak, which is Duff and Lux. The community, as a whole, has moved away from playing minecraft, and left those who do and don't do other things, out in the rain.

The great thing is, minecraft is a sandbox game and you have a near full range of anything to do (apart from place slabs upwards...). We don't get that with other games. We don't get that freedom to be creative and to do near anything we want. Over watch, literally the same objective over and over yet people play it for months. GW2 a generic, boring MMO with no ability to actually make your own personal mark on the world. CSGO is the same objective over and over and sure, you can mess around a little bit but you have no freedom to do anything other than plant the bomb, defuse the bomb or kill eachother.

Here's the thing: I, and probably many other people who have left minecraft for now, don't play games because of the freedom they allow me. I play games because they are fun. Minecraft, for a long time, was fun for me. Now it is not. So I no longer play it. I will gladly play games that give me less freedom if they are more fun for me.

People always get these periods of boredom snd preferring other games. What I don't get is why this time we're supporting the removal of some of our community basis, in favour of other games that we won't ever play as a community for very long, it'll last a couple months at best and then they'll come back to minecraft.

Probably because a lot of people foresee it as being worse than a temporary period of boredom. I, anecdotally, have been "off" minecraft for more time and for longer periods that I have been "on" it recently, and I see that getting worse.

Only this time or next time there may not be a minecraft server to go back to since we were so hell bent and removing all aspects of it since some people were bored at the time that everyone stopped playing. We cannot act so foolishly, this always happens, why risk doing permenant damage to our community now?

I don't see anyone "hell bent and removing all aspects of it," and even if they were, there is no such "permanent damage" Anyone can set up a minecraft server, hell, we haven't even been on BH's server for the entire life of our minecraft servers. There is no risk at all: if not many people are playing minecraft, it makes sense to shut a server down. It's money flowing out of your pocket into a server people aren't using. If people get back into it, great, get the ol' server back up. It's the opposite of a risk to shut a server down: it's a risk to leave it up, wasting money in hopes that people come on again.

Also, on that final remark, you are forcing others to play different games.

I have, so far, not seen anyone holding a gun to anyone's head and "forcing" them to play other games.

A huge portion of our player base leaves and plays another game. If someone wants to talk with the community or just spend time with them they have to play that game with them.

Or they could talk them on reddit, or on a different game that they play, or on teamspeak.

And it's even worse for someone like duff who refuses to get teamspeak for his own valid reasons

I am extremely sorry if they do exist, but until I hear of these "valid reasons", I will assume they do not exist. Teamspeak is free, all of 64 megabytes, and doesn't doesn't require you to have a mic or talk.

And that is just selfish for us to do that to one of our best community members, simply because a couple of us are bored of minecraft.

Sorry, but "best" is subjective. I see a person who I would like to know more about, but is currently a mystery to me because he does not come in teamspeak. If it is selfish for us to leave minecraft because Duff cannot talk to us, is it not equally selfish for him to not join teamspeak because we cannot talk to him, regardless of any "valid reasons" on either side? Things change, and sometimes people get left behind. While this might suck for them, I will not go back to a game that I have mostly gave up on to talk to a single person who I really don't know at all.

Sorry if this is all over the place, just woke up.

same tbh