SaveMinecraft Trends Following Controversial New Update

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The latest update to Minecraft has been met with strong backlash from players over privacy concerns. This follows the much more well-received The Wild Update, which added new Minecraft content in June.

Minecraft has seen its fair share of controversies in the past. These have mostly been in relation to creator Notch, real name Markus Persson, who sold the game’s development studio Mojang to Microsoft in 2014. Since then, Persson has been criticized multiple times for making a variety of hateful comments on social media. This string of incidents eventually led to all references to his name being quietly removed from the game in 2019. Development of the game has since proceeded relatively smoothly without his input, which in recent times has included the release of several DLC packs. However, Persson took to Twitter last year apparently in protest of this new direction, saying that Minecraft is now a dead game.

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Now, however, the latest update to Minecraft has generated its own controversy and caused the hashtag 'SaveMinecraft' to trend on Twitter. As reported by Game Rant, the new 1.19.1 update (which follows The Wild Update), introduces new chat moderation features to both public and private game servers. The update means that chat messages are now run through filters to scan and block any content deemed inappropriate, as well as allowing other players to report messages. As a consequence of this, the users responsible can then be banned from playing on all servers, including private ones. This has quickly led to the update reportedly being labeled "the chat-reporting update" by certain groups of players. The backlash is similar to that generated by updates to other