I've seen a lot of discussion around the internet lately about how Microsoft is going to ruin Minecraft, charge for future updates, or get rid of the modding community, but to me, this makes no sense. Microsoft wouldn't spend billions of dollars on the game to ruin it.

Let's put it this way. Pretend there was a little lemonade stand set up down the street and it suddenly became extremely successful so you buy it for a lot of money. You bought it because you wanted a taste of that success. You didn't buy it "just 'cause". You probably wouldn't change the recipe for that lemmonade for a long time because the recipe was what people wanted to come back to. Sure, there will be a few poeple who keep coming back just because the lemonade still has the same name, but you will lose a big portion of your customers when the recipe is changed which means you will also lose a big portion of your income.

A huge company like Microsoft won't change the recipe because they want a good return on their investment.