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just give them indev...
HA. HA. HA. You guys are funny!
It's funny because why the )-(ell should they be given an incomplete version of Minecraft?

The game is cheap. It's like buying a old best seller game for 20 bucks except cheaper.

I say no, because it's a great game. Good games deserve to be paid for. The continued updates to the game make it even more worth paying. People should pay for good games. While Free2Play is a great way to grow an audience, it's a horrible way to fund future development, and I hope that Minecraft developers get all the money they need to keep making the game better.

STOP NERCOING 2 YEAR OLD THREADS!

If it became Free to Play, then Mojang would probably not be making the money they made right now. After all, Mojang has made a hundred million dollars from this game, and besides the new client will come with the feature to downgrade the game, meaning we may hopefully get versions such as Indev, Alpha, and Beta. Classic, though, is pretty much a build-only feature and that is still free-to-play. I just wish Mojang supported Classic!

Maybe if they stopped updating it.

Horrible.....Just horrible......Read the example
"OMG!!! It's that new cool game called minecraft!!! DERP!!!"
"OMG!!! It's FREE!!! HERPY DERPY!!!
"I GOTTA GET IT!!! DERP!!!"
"WOW!!! I'm on a server!!!"
"I don't know what to do!!! DERP!!!"
"HEY!!! HEY GUY WITH A CAPE!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!!"
"Oh well what to DO?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY MOD!!! HEY!!!"
"What is it?"
"HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Shut up"
":( :("
*Noob gets banned*
"Oh well, I can just make another account. DERP!!!!"
As you can see, this noob annoyed the heck out of this mod and the noob did not know any better. If the game was made free, It would make our time in minecraft not enjoyable anymore and which could end up making minecraft the crappiest game ever and servers completely empty, fantastic creations destroyed, and possibly minecraft being deleted forever.

"Become free to play" Implies that you have to pay monthly to play it. Sure, you have to pay for the game to initially play it, but once you've bought it, you're free from debt. You get all of the updates and new features, free...unlike games which usually only add content as purchasable DLC.

No! It would be horrible. You will have to pay for skins, custom maps and texture packs like LoL and other F2P games.

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Since when did the word 'n00b' become the word 'Idiot'? You know, n00b means 'someone who is new to a game'

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STOP NERCOING 2 YEAR OLD THREADS!

Dude, you're helping it...

If they do make it free and nothing else, that would be a total clusterF**K of things to come. Minecraft.net would be overloaded as well as the forums. We would see an increase of whitelisted servers and public servers would explode just because millions of people will be downloading and joining at more or less the EXACT same time. =P

Those are the short term reasons, but in the long run Minecraft would eventually too big to sustain and collapse under it's own popularity.

I'd imagine that someone in this thread would eventually say something in the lines of: "Valve made Team Fortress 2 FREE!! so why not Minecraft?!?!?!" Valve did made Team Fortress for free but with good reason, TF2 is earning A LOT from micro transactions, such as the mann.co supply crate keys, so to attract more people they made it free. If Minecraft were to follow suit that would suck so hard...

No I have a list of reasons NO

1) The devs needs the money

2) Free to play games have the habit of being completely unfair

3) Minecraft is 50% less expensive than the average $60 game

4) Free Updates is enough

5) Also for those who says get the crack version, Don't

6) If you have a friend who's willing, he can let you use his account (For singleplayer)

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I don't get the example. Are you just describing the current situation? Little kids flooding our servers?

First of all, Mojang has enough money to publish free games in the next 20 years.
Also, they could just ask for donations for the next update.

There are many mature players who want to play the game, but they don't have a credit card or the money for it.

Yes, It was an example how noobs would act on minecraft servers. I'm not saying all the noobs would act that way I just meant the 6-9 year olds.

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There are many mature players who want to play the game, but they don't have a credit card or the money for it.

...So somehow they have a mid-to-high-end computer that can run Minecraft as well as enough time to play it but they don't have 26 USD? If they're that poor maybe they should... like... get a job instead of sitting around playing video games?

Ummmm yeah minecrafts fanbase is already long dead so I think that just making it free to play and having the servers switched to pay2play would be fine not to mention that minecraft is already overrun by new players so this wouldn't hurt the player base.

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Ummmm yeah minecrafts fanbase is already long dead so I think that just making it free to play and having the servers switched to pay2play would be fine not to mention that minecraft is already overrun by new players so this wouldn't hurt the player base.

Absolutely not, the Minecraft fanbase is not dead. In the end, none of those reasons will help Mojang in anyway. If Mojang does not receive funding in anyway, then they will not be able to continue Minecraft.

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Ummmm yeah minecrafts fanbase is already long dead so I think that just making it free to play and having the servers switched to pay2play would be fine not to mention that minecraft is already overrun by new players so this wouldn't hurt the player base.

Long dead? A game that sells 10 thousand copies a DAY is long dead?

I think we should pay. It gives Mojang money to continue to improve Minecraft. Plus, if there were a crazy ton of new players... that wouldn't be good, now would it? T.T Say goodbye to servers, all of em' will crash with the horrible weight of people deciding to play on them. -.-

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Notch said that they would never sue anyone for that.

That is probably because they would have to spend more time suing then developing the game if they did...

Quote from willifolts

That is probably because they would have to spend more time suing then developing the game if they did...

...Yep.