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> I don't know of any other major games using Java

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Java_platform_games

Apart from Minecraft, which game on that list would be considered "major"?

StreetFighter, FIFA, RuneScape, SimCity, and a couple others.

Street Fighter and SimCity were definitely not Java games. I don't know why they're in that list.

The first SimCity and SimCity were both written long before Java was released. SimCity 3 and 4 were released when Java was still known for being horrendously slow, so there's no way they're Java. SimCity 2013 uses the RenderWare engine, which was written in C++.

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