Personally, i dont see how this would work, i would understand if they shut down but surely if they wanted to "take a risk" it wouldnt be stepping back and letting mcci overtake them, it would be revamping the server with a large investment. new games, more servers and better gameplay to get their community back, i'd hate to see this server go down in this way after joining 8 years ago and by making the major games worse and making a major portion of the community not want to play doesnt seem optimal. I do wish the best from this strategy but i don't see it, many don't see it and i speak for a lot of the community when i say a lot of us will not want to play on this server anymore as the games we came onto the server for are being altered or removed. 1.12.2 was the only stable version to play on, it was the perfect balance of 1.8 style with 1.9 pvp. The main reasons why i bought obsidian are now made redundant. I wish this server all the best but i would imagine me and many of the community, will not return until we see improvement. I would say now, that java cubecraft is dead, this will be implemented and the server will close soon after