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Can't afford Minecraft? Pirate it, says creator

Creator of hit sandbox-builder wants everyone to play his game - even if it leads to piracy.

Pikajew4478d ago

More devs have to be like Notch

dark-hollow4477d ago

Not all indie devs can afford their games to be priated.

SilentNegotiator4477d ago

Notch can afford it, and they're using it to expand on their fanbase. You're sure to reel in some pirate sympathizers (psychologically), people who pirate the first game but buy the next, etc.

Plus "'Indie' (Because you're SO indie when you're reeling in 50 Mill.) Game Developer says 'Pirate My Game'" makes for good headlines.
"Oh yeah...Minecraft. That game I almost bought. I remember. I think I'll buy it now";
Making Headlines = Free Publicity.

You really don't lose simply by saying "pirate my game" if you've already sold millions of copies.....you attract people that I described. It's no skin off of his nose if a couple people pirate the game in the process of getting free publicity. Do you think Kotick sheds a tear every time a copy of CODMW3 is pirated?

I don't approve. Encouraging people to pirate, especially from such a position, is unhelpful to REAL indie devs.

Wenis4477d ago

Mojang IS an indie developer. It doesn't matter how much they're making... the fact is they are independent of a publisher..

kaveti66164477d ago

His logic makes perfect sense. Anti-piracy people often don't understand it.

Think about this way. If you can't afford to purchase a game, then you're not a potential customer. Potential customers are people who are willing AND able to purchase things. So you're willing but you're NOT able, and thus if you pirate the game, you are not a potential sales loss.

It's true that there are some people out there who can afford to purchase a game but choose to pirate it instead. However those people may just as easily fall under the category of "able but not willing." In that case, they may also not lead to potential sales losses because they are still not potential customers. Hey, it's true. Some people pirate things simply because they can, and not because they're interested in it.

But there are also some people out there who are both "willing and able" to purchase a product, which means they are interested in the product and are able to afford it, but because the option to pirate it is available they defer to it and that is a lost sale.

The people who make music, video games, and movies, and other entertainment have no way of figuring out which pirates are "willing but not able," "not willing but able," and "willing and able." So they clump them all together and say they've lost a ton of money through piracy despite the fact that some of these pirates, perhaps a lot of them, were never going to purchase the product anyway.

ZombieNinjaPanda4477d ago (Edited 4477d ago )

From the sounds of it, Notch is trying some damage control from all his mess ups. Unless Jeb said this.

Edit: Yep, Notch trying some damage control. It's funny how he never replies to tweets asking him why his game crashes constantly on some computers, why glitches from alpha are still in the game, and why it's such an intense resource hog and has memory leakage.

Edit2 :

Also the kid won't be able to play multiplayer.

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Lazy_Sunday4477d ago (Edited 4477d ago )

What he means is that if you do not have $25, or your family doesn't have $25 to give you to pay for a game that will keep you busy for endless amounts of entertainment, then you can pirate it.

When it's acceptable:
If you don't own a phone
If you don't own a computer
If you don't own a house
If you live in a third world country
If the only computer you use is in a library

Otherwise you're a total asshole, the deal is great for the amount of time you'll spend playing it, rich, poor, or in between.

ZombieNinjaPanda4477d ago

"If you don't own a computer."

Pretty hard to play minecraft if you don't own a computer. Unless you mean the family computer.

chevaliergod4477d ago

Lol I actually live in a third world country where it's really hard to get internet dollars.

I'd gladly pay for this game as soon as I can, but right now I'm playing a pirated copy.

Kran4477d ago (Edited 4477d ago )

Yes. Developers need to be like a guy who would have a go at two of the Internets greatest minecraft players accusing them of things he soon clarified they did not actually do.

... :/

Disagreers: It's true though. I'm not hating on Notch, I just think sometimes he over reacts a lot. I mean he's acting as if Minecraft is so great that it needs to be pirated... thats kind of childish.

vortis4477d ago

He also dissed Euclideon, which could be the greatest game engine ever made. I mean, more than anything you'd want to HELP someone make progress on a project like that, not hinder it with negativity.

Notch is kind of a douche at times.

iamtehpwn4477d ago

Bill Gates once said something to the effect of "If you're going to pirate, pirate *our* products. You guys don't get it. The reason they make remarks like this isn't because they don't want people to buy their games, but its essentially free viral marketing. They will increase the game's popularity through word of mouth.

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Chaostar4477d ago

If you can't afford €19.95 you need to be out looking for a job, not playing Minecraft.

Support your devs people.

LAWSON724477d ago

Actually most likely if you can not afford minecraft you probably don't have a decent PC to run it

RedDead4477d ago

XD

Decent Pc...to run minecraft?

Halochampian4477d ago

@RedDeadDestroyer

Yes.. Minecraft is quite intensive

Solid_Snake374477d ago

@RedDeadDestroyer

wow the ignorance in your comment is overwhelming

360ICE4477d ago

If you've been on the internet before you can't honestly say you find his ignorance overwhelming :P

ZombieNinjaPanda4477d ago

There's a huge difference between intensive and shoddily developed.

Memory leaks doesn't mean it's intensive, it means there's a problem.

Bloodraid4476d ago

Please don't sit there and try to act like you know what you're talking about when you clearly do not.

Minecraft is written in Java, and Java has built-in garbage collection, which makes memory leaks virtually impossible to get on accident. Unless you're sitting there and creating endless amounts of new objects and holding their references forever, it wont happen.

Besides, even if there were a memory leak, the game would constantly give OutOfMemoryExceptions because there's no heap space available, which doesn't happen unless your PC can't doesn't have enough RAM available to begin with.

With that said, the game is indeed CPU intensive. Not only does the game need to render a hefty number of polygons, but it also uses OpenGL's immediate mode rendering, rather than using VertexBufferObjects and Shaders.

Oddly, their reason behind this was to make the game available to as many people as possible. But seriously, if your graphics card doesn't support OpenGL2.0 (which came out in 2004), what're the odds that your computer can even run the game anyway?

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LAWSON724477d ago

most likely if you can not afford minecraft you probably don't have a decent PC to run it

vortis4477d ago

If you can't afford Minecraft you probably also don't have the intelligence to play.

fullmetal2974477d ago

That much money? I bough Minecraft back when it wasn't mainstream and it only cost me ten dollars USD.

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Alabaster4477d ago (Edited 4477d ago )

It seems like every dev is encouraging piracy in one way or another these days.

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All the Essential Video Games Everyone Needs To Play At Least Once

Given the medium's wild diversity, this primer of the essential video games everyone should try is a good place to start.

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thorstein34d ago

.... from the 2000s (mostly).

shinoff218334d ago

I can't fk with this list. They missed on alot of games probably before the writers times. Also I know people loved some portal but I was never a fan.

Cacabunga34d ago

Tomb Raider 1
Driver 1
Abe’s Odyssey
FF6
King of Fighters 94
Mortal Kombat OG
LINK 2 the past
Street Fighter 2
Resident Evil 1

Inverno34d ago

Infinite but not the first two games? Witcher 3 but not the first two games?? GTA V but not literally any of the games before it??? Portal 2 but not the first? Also if you're going to play Shadow of The Colossus play the remaster and not the remake. Can't say I disagree with the list but my man it's all over the place.

Name Last Name34d ago

I mean some sequels are objectively better and you don’t need to play the whole series.

Inverno34d ago

But most of these games have a story to follow, sure you can catch up with a YouTube vid but where's the fun in that?

LucasRuinedChildhood34d ago (Edited 34d ago )

A list like this isn't telling you not to play the previous games if you want to. It's just giving you legendary games to play.

But tbh, you don't always have to force yourself to play every entry in a franchise to get to the better ones.

- The vast majority of Witcher 3 players never played the first 2 and had a great time. The first 2 games aren't in the same league.
- The GTA games are self-contained with the odd fun reference. You can easily jump into any of them.
- The Shadow Of The Colossus remake looks and controls better than the original (plus it has a 60fps option while the remaster is just 30fps). New players will enjoy it more.
- Portal 2 is a lot better than Portal 1 and takes the concept much further gameplay-wise. Storywise, Portal 1 is fairly light too. Not that you shouldn't play it but realistically ... you'd love Portal 2 whether you play it or not (at lot of Portal 2 players have never played 1).

Bioshock 1 is the only one I agree with you on simply because it's one the best games of all time and arguably better than Infinite. No other setting like Rapture.

Looking at the list, I'd recommend playing Uncharted 1 before 2 but no doubt, 2 is the legendary one you have to play.

Inverno34d ago

I get it, but that's just my opinion on his opinion. I just think that before you play a sequel you should still play what came before it. Maybe it's just me but i find it fascinating playing through the first game in a series and seeing how it has evolved through its sequels. Like I said I don't disagree with the list, other than SoTC which I strongly believe the remaster of the original should be played above the remake.

AuraAbjure33d ago

Awesome list! Hot take on Fear (and it's hard af expansion Persaus Mandate!) Bioshock Infinite is stellar, so is the Witcher 3 and you nailed it by having Ocarina of Time. So many fantastic games! Gotta play 'em all! Next one on my list is Prey after I beat Dead Space 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction.

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Jin_Sakai54d ago (Edited 54d ago )

Nice! Next up, shaders on consoles.

“A new update is improving how mods work for Minecraft Bedrock. Mojang has introduced add-ons to the marketplace.”

“These add-ons can now easily be added to new and existing worlds instead of being tied to a single world.
There are plenty of free and paid add-ons that will let you customize just about anything in your world.”

OtterX53d ago

So RayTracing is no longer locked to the NVIDIA maps? I know there was a workaround, but it will be nice to have easier access to all worlds.