User blog comment:LOTRMod/Ask Boyd Anything 2: Electric Boydaloo/@comment-26088681-20170112183720/@comment-27200931-20170112202833

The players will lose interest in the mod because vanilla Minecraft won't get new updates? Something doesn't add up there. Even if Microsoft decides to cease further development of new updates for Minecraft, I doubt it would affect the mod. Currently, the mod uses the 1.7.10 version and Mevans said that he won't update the mod for the foreseeable future for reasons stated in one of his blog posts.