>>53583643Insider here. Pixelmon is being kept alive solely by Complex Gaming at this point because there is a singular rabid dev at the helm who ported the mod to 1.16.5. More money than you'd like to believe is tossed at Pixelmon just to stay on top of their modpack and server lists with the managers behind the mod resorting to blackmail to get other people in the modded scene (Sponge, Velocity, etc.) to do what they want.
The original "Pixelmon takedown" was falsifed in order to quash some alternative mods people on staff were planning in 2017. If you check
Archive.org the Pixelmon team denounced their Reforged branding and scrubbed any mention of it beyond the domain
reforged.gg last year.
>Servers that get any traction in the Pixelmon scene are either bought out or harassed until they drop>Devs of the mod are more interested in monetizing their plugins than contributing to Pixelmon's source. Waterdude will sell repackaged and plagiarized buggy code for upwards of $100+ on his Discord and unless you pay up your server will be targetedAnyone worth their salt has either quit this cancerous scene or jumped ship to other mods, I don't even mean Cobblemon. There's a handful of other ones like Ancient Legends that have popped up as a result of the dev team getting sick of this shit.
As long as Pixelmon keeps getting millions pumped into it it won't die, but dev-wise the mod has no momentum because they're too afraid of losing the monopoly they've had for over 10 years to open source and get the help the mod needs.
