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Quote from king_tnerb

No. Plus Classic is already free to play thereby rendering your second question invalid.

They removed F2P classic.

Quote from bbruce16

YES!!! minecraft should be free. i dont own the game (because it costs 25$) it just seems inconvient for me to get it. I don't have a credit card and i am not able to put money on my pay pal account. so come on Notch make the game free already, you have accomplished making the greatest PC game of all time so i think its about time to make it free. I will have you to thank for it. P.S. people can ignore trolling.

Why thank you for bumping a dead topic.

To OP: Minecraft should never be free, You can earn $26 easy.

Hell No!
I Payed 25$ For It!
I Wouldn't Mind If They Made it Cheaper Though.

Quote from crazygamer2255

im guessing you don't actually have minecraft or something and you wanted it bad... ok lets make a situation here... you buy a really popular game for 30 bucks... then it goes free to play, there are more trolls and hackers in servers that cant go white list like game hubs, you pay 30 dollars for what everyone else gets for free, mojang will probably get ALLOT of hate, the community gets destroyed, and minecraft goes from being the most popular game out there to being the worst nightmare of all gamers, mojang is not going to ruin minecraft for some greedy losers

i have MC since alpha
I bought TF2 2 months before i became F2P. I wasn't ed, i was happy that new people could try out the game and have fun.
Only thing that will happen is that new newbs will join in that flood some servers for 1 month
The community won't get ruined. or there is a chance that the '''F2P'' and the ''Bought before F2P'' get in a battle or something for a time but that fixes itself.
Minecraft isn't the most populair game.
It won't turn bad at all

Quote from WhatsItToYa

They removed F2P classic.

http://minecraft.net/classic/play
Nope.

No

It's already extremely easy to torrent this game somehow and get it for free (usually the only problem being that you can't connect to servers then)
In a way, buying the game gives you access to multiplayer, which makes sense.

I have 3 accounts. And I am proud to have given money to the creators of such a great game. They need the money in order to keep developing as such. Once they stop getting funding the game stops getting better and better.

I don't think they should. Mojang deserves to be paid for Minecraft, they put a lot of work into it and it is an absolutely awesome game. Besides, I already paid for it. If they suddenly said it was free, I would go on an angry rampage. Minecraft would become seriously overloaded on servers and stuff.

Hell no. It isn't fair to anybody who paid before minecraft will be flooded and it will let cheap people in. Let me tell all of you who want minecraft free what the rule (a bad rule but still a rule) of the 21st century is. IF YOU DON'T PAY FOR IT YOU DON'T GET IT IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT! This will eat minecraft from the inside out. So no it shouldn't become free. Mojang deserves the 20 bucks and anyone playing on cracked should be blown up by a creeper.

No. Just no. We don't want minecraft to get filled with cheap noobs like TF2 was. Yeah, you got the usual noob back in the day in TF2, but the noobs these days don't know absolutely anything about the game (Having literally downloaded the game without even seeing any gameplay or knowing the controls).

No.

Quote from Mogal

No. That completely annoys the millions that have already paid.

well lets take a look at history. Arma 2 needs to be paid for but they do have a free 2 play version. this version has its own multi-player servers and single-player. some features are missing such as saving in a server and a campaign but there are single-player scenarios to play that are included in the paid version. this system works great it keeps the trolls out and lets unsure players try it out

No. If people want to play Minecraft, they should either pay or be a cheapskate and use the pirated clients. Mojang is working hard to make Minecraft at it's best. They deserve to be paid.

I don't know why their are so many posts about minecraft becoming free to play, it is a stupid idea. If anything minecraft should cost more for the amount of enjoyment you get out of the game. And lets be honest, is 30 dollars really that much?

If you have the right resources hacking an account is a bit too easy, especially with this community. Even easier to find list of cracked ones. It should be free just to save time for the people who wont pay no matter what, it will save the people who get their accs hacked and save time. They've already made lifetimes of profit off this game so i don't think it would matter too much, but still money is money.

Quote from Metasponge64

No. It would annoy those who paid like me and it would be overrun by 8 year olds like roblox is right now. If we take that route i'm gonna quit minecraft.

This game is 30% -10 y/o I dont think it would matter, and you should just quit if you dont even know how to associate yourself in the right community ffs

Quote from seenbo

no public multiplayer would be ruind,all the noobs would just slaughter the animals

As if there arent already noobs and people buying the game everyday why would it matter if you can whitelist a server and not take apps, problem solved

Quote from Sunday13

Wait! (Removes the NOOOO vote) What if we purchased? Then we would get a cape! (Puts a YESSSSS)

Your'e sad. But that's actually a really good fix but preferably not a cape or something else to show we purchased the game. Like being able to set a skin or host a free server for only people who paid. Good concept terrible presentation though lol

Quote from fleetwoodzac

I don't know why their are so many posts about minecraft becoming free to play, it is a stupid idea. If anything minecraft should cost more for the amount of enjoyment you get out of the game. And lets be honest, is 30 dollars really that much?

It really is to some people who are in debt or don't have a job or paypal etc.

Quote from Nogawah

Everything should become free to play. The question is not that, but whether it is possible to make it free to play (and still give Mojang enough profit and/or incentive to continue development).

^ this. Mojang already made millions and are still raking in more from things other than the game.

It's only 25$. Most games cost 50-70$ and the new Playstation and Xbox games are 100$. You can get games real cheap from Steam when sales are on.

Quote from Khoury

It's only 25$. Most games cost 50-70$ and the new Playstation and Xbox games are 100$. You can get games real cheap from Steam when sales are on.

Yeah but a pc normally costs more than a console, is this game even on steam? I don't think it is and if it isn't why even bring it up? fool

I don't think it should be free to play personally. The money paid to Mojang for this game is a good source of income for them, they deserve to be paid as such. There is already free versions of Minecraft available to play in both single player and multiplayer (via minecraft.net) albeit very outdated versions.

Even if Minecraft was free to play, I would still pay for it to support Mojang

yes, only in the far far future (20-30 years I would expect) when no one plays it any more.Like the first super mario bros, you can still buy it but there's so many flash clones of it, it's pointless to sell.

I would be against the Idea. The only way this might actually HELP online servers is that you could be able to make your servers only players who have purchased the game. So in that sense you would most likely get a more dedicated group of minecrafters rather than ones who just decided to play it for free