Emulators don’t always challenge developer profit. Minecraft is incredibly successful because users can play on alternative server implementations (e.g hypixel).
Minecraft sells their own hosted servers called realms that bill monthly [0]. The key difference here might be that it was rolled out well after the game’s release around the 1.5 update [1].
shultays|3 years ago
math-ias|3 years ago
[0] https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/realms [1] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Realms#Minecraft_version_h...