It's going to be a subscription based server hosting for Minecraft, People have payed for Minecraft so I think it should be free, Mojang are already earning a massive profit from Minecraft as I am writing this post Minecraft has 10,217,117 buys. Yes, yes.. Pirating... Well they managed to make sure people who pirate minecraft can't go to premium servers, well.. why not do the same thing with Minecraft Reams. In my opinion if this wasn't subscription based this would be a fairly good idea, it's not though so I give this idea a 0/10.
It's "subscription" based, doesn't that mean that you have to pay for it. I have a MC account, I wouldn't pay for Minecraft realms. I can't play Minecraft right now because my PC is broken.
If you make a server it often costs money, so it wont do anything it is still costly. and as for the cracked clients and such. they still can't get into Realms
Cracked users don't have premium Minecraft accounts.
You need a premium account to use Realms.
Actually from what I heard even if you have a premium account your screwed basicly what they want to sell is server hosting witch I think is pretty ok *as long as they sell there servers for cheap* but even if they don't who cares you still have the normal minecraft servers that you can pay for! so yeah I think Reams is a good idea unless they overprice and plus I have portforwarding and I'm going to be learning how to build a computer built for minecraft server hosting later on in the future
To be honest, I think the pay to host idea is complete BS. You buy minecraft, want to host a server you have to pay unless you want a small hamachi server or you know how to Port Forward.
They're hosting the server for you, why would it be free? Sure you payed for the game, but you don't need to pay for Minecraft Realms if you don't want to. You could always host your own server, pay another company to host it for you, or just play singleplayer. Mojang is just offering another service, and you can choose to use it or not to use it, but I think that it should be a paid service.
I think it's great. They're 24/7, and you don't have to use it if you don't want to. Getting a small 24/7 server means either paying for it, or hosting it yourself. A lot of people don't have a spare, fairly modern computer to host it. Besides, they'll probably make it fairly cheap. If it was free, it would be EXPENSIVE to host over 10 million free 4 or 5 slot servers.
Don't they already get enough money from the millions of people that have already bought the game, they are just trying to get more money than they already have. Yes, I know it takes a LOT of money to produce a game but c'mon..... You can possibly make another game in the CoD franchise with the amount of money they have...4/5 slot servers, please.. Hamachi is for small servers.
Don't they already get enough money from the millions of people that have already bought the game, they are just trying to get more money than they already have. Yes, I know it takes a LOT of money to produce a game but c'mon..... You can possibly make another game in the CoD franchise with the amount of money they have...
4/5 slot servers, please.. Hamachi is for small servers.
They're estimating that they'll need at least a thousand servers.
Even if they're only 5 players each, the money MC is making could never sustain that amount.
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I think having Minecraft Realms for !FREE! would be a great idea, it would be a pain to get a network that can host so many servers though.
1. Mojang offering rental server from them does not remove your ability to create your own server or to play on someone elses server, they are not removing any of the current functionality from the game. This has been specifically said by them repeatedly in response to people who for some reason assume that you will be required to play on their servers as you do.
It will be a completely optional convenience service offered by them for those who want to rent a 24/7 commercial grade server for better performance and for those without the know-how or hardware to do it themselves.
2. Commercial Internet bandwidth is not free, the type of internet trunk connection required to run a server farm costs tens of thousands of dollars per month.
Then all those servers have to be powered and air conditioned heavily so as not to overheat, and you need UPS battery back up power for the servers and routers and stand-by generators for them and the cooling if the power fails. Your electric bill is also many thousands of dollars per month and your set-up costs for the electrical systems is many hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.
You also have to purchase all the server racks and a space to install them in, then technicians have to install thousands of individual servers to those racks and wire them into the network routers that they also have to install. This alone costs you another several million dollars minimum for the hardware and labor costs, not even counting the building space costs.
And you want them to do it for free? Why, do you want Mojang to go bankrupt or something?
Estimating they probably earned around $200,000,000. $50-100mil on updates maybe, I don't know about the prices for the updates. So probably about 100mil on Minecraft realms, they need some more money on future updates.
Estimating they probably earned around $200,000,000. $50-100mil on updates maybe, I don't know about the prices for the updates. So probably about 100mil on Minecraft realms, they need some more money on future updates.
Updates are free and always have been so they never earned a penny from those, and they didn't earn $200,000,000 on the game sales either, many people bought the game back in beta when the price was lower. You also ignore the fact that they have expenses like salaries, building space, electricity, servers for minecraft.net and their website, the bandwidth cost for those servers, software licensing fees, etc..
Hosting, maintaining, and all the other associated costs of a server can get pretty expensive, so they couldn't make it free because that's 10,000,000 people they would have to host a server for just because they bought the game once for $20. Even if they did make $200,000,000 from people buying Minecraft, they'd lose that in a heartbeat if they hosted Realms for everyone for free,
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I think it's a great idea. They've given us a great game and not asked for a single cent afterwards. Realms is purely optional and will not affect your game play. It kind of makes sense that the people who've made your game will offer you server space.
Don't they already get enough money from the millions of people that have already bought the game, they are just trying to get more money than they already have.
Who cares if they're trying to get more money? Mojang is a business. The goal of a business is to make money. Some businesses care about their consumers more than others, and Mojang certainly cares about us, but at the end of the day, their goal is to make money.
Look. If you have a spare computer just lying around already, and the know-how to do it yourself, you can set up and run your own server for free. You don't have to pay for Realms, if you don't want to use it. Servers don't just magically appear out of thin air, though. A "server" isn't just the Minecraft game you connect to when you go online, the "server" is the computer that's running that game of Minecraft. If you don't have a spare computer of your own to do this with, you'll have to borrow someone else's. Most of them would like you to pay for that.
What you're suggesting, those of you who say you think this should be free, is that Mojang purchase and maintain millions of PC's, and keep them hooked up to the Internet at all times, and pay for the bandwidth, and hire a team of experts to keep them running smoothly all the time, and make an individual private server for each and every one of the more than ten million people who have purchased this game, and make them available for use free of charge, in perpetuity, for no ongoing compensation besides the initial $27 they paid to get it in the first place. Who's gonna pay for all this? Yeah, Mojang has millions of dollars, but they also have millions of customers. Each one of them only paid less than $30. How far do you think that's going to go?
It's like buying an Xbox game, and then getting mad because you have to pay for an Xbox Live subscription to play online, too. At least Mojang doesn't charge an ongoing fee just for the privilege of being able to connect to servers at all; if you have your own, or know of a server that's open, you can connect to it for free. And if you don't have one a available, soon Mojang (and plenty of other people, already) will be happy to rent you one, for a fee of course. What's so wrong with that?
Look. If you have a spare computer just lying around already, and the know-how to do it yourself, you can set up and run your own server for free. You don't have to pay for Realms, if you don't want to use it. Servers don't just magically appear out of thin air, though. A "server" isn't just the Minecraft game you connect to when you go online, the "server" is the computer that's running that game of Minecraft. If you don't have a spare computer of your own to do this with, you'll have to borrow someone else's. Most of them would like you to pay for that.
What you're suggesting, those of you who say you think this should be free, is that Mojang purchase and maintain millions of PC's, and keep them hooked up to the Internet at all times, and pay for the bandwidth, and hire a team of experts to keep them running smoothly all the time, and make an individual private server for each and every one of the more than ten million people who have purchased this game, and make them available for use free of charge, in perpetuity, for no ongoing compensation besides the initial $27 they paid to get it in the first place. Who's gonna pay for all this? Yeah, Mojang has millions of dollars, but they also have millions of customers. Each one of them only paid less than $30. How far do you think that's going to go?
It's like buying an Xbox game, and then getting mad because you have to pay for an Xbox Live subscription to play online, too. At least Mojang doesn't charge an ongoing fee just for the privilege of being able to connect to servers at all; if you have your own, or know of a server that's open, you can connect to it for free. And if you don't have one a available, soon Mojang (and plenty of other people, already) will be happy to rent you one, for a fee of course. What's so wrong with that?
Exactly! Server farms are expensive! They'd also need to cool the buildings, to stop them from overheating, adding even more cost.
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Actually from what I heard even if you have a premium account your screwed basicly what they want to sell is server hosting witch I think is pretty ok *as long as they sell there servers for cheap* but even if they don't who cares you still have the normal minecraft servers that you can pay for! so yeah I think Reams is a good idea unless they overprice and plus I have portforwarding and I'm going to be learning how to build a computer built for minecraft server hosting later on in the future
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They're estimating that they'll need at least a thousand servers.
Even if they're only 5 players each, the money MC is making could never sustain that amount.
1. Mojang offering rental server from them does not remove your ability to create your own server or to play on someone elses server, they are not removing any of the current functionality from the game. This has been specifically said by them repeatedly in response to people who for some reason assume that you will be required to play on their servers as you do.
It will be a completely optional convenience service offered by them for those who want to rent a 24/7 commercial grade server for better performance and for those without the know-how or hardware to do it themselves.
2. Commercial Internet bandwidth is not free, the type of internet trunk connection required to run a server farm costs tens of thousands of dollars per month.
Then all those servers have to be powered and air conditioned heavily so as not to overheat, and you need UPS battery back up power for the servers and routers and stand-by generators for them and the cooling if the power fails. Your electric bill is also many thousands of dollars per month and your set-up costs for the electrical systems is many hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars.
You also have to purchase all the server racks and a space to install them in, then technicians have to install thousands of individual servers to those racks and wire them into the network routers that they also have to install. This alone costs you another several million dollars minimum for the hardware and labor costs, not even counting the building space costs.
And you want them to do it for free? Why, do you want Mojang to go bankrupt or something?
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Updates are free and always have been so they never earned a penny from those, and they didn't earn $200,000,000 on the game sales either, many people bought the game back in beta when the price was lower. You also ignore the fact that they have expenses like salaries, building space, electricity, servers for minecraft.net and their website, the bandwidth cost for those servers, software licensing fees, etc..
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Who cares if they're trying to get more money? Mojang is a business. The goal of a business is to make money. Some businesses care about their consumers more than others, and Mojang certainly cares about us, but at the end of the day, their goal is to make money.
What you're suggesting, those of you who say you think this should be free, is that Mojang purchase and maintain millions of PC's, and keep them hooked up to the Internet at all times, and pay for the bandwidth, and hire a team of experts to keep them running smoothly all the time, and make an individual private server for each and every one of the more than ten million people who have purchased this game, and make them available for use free of charge, in perpetuity, for no ongoing compensation besides the initial $27 they paid to get it in the first place. Who's gonna pay for all this? Yeah, Mojang has millions of dollars, but they also have millions of customers. Each one of them only paid less than $30. How far do you think that's going to go?
It's like buying an Xbox game, and then getting mad because you have to pay for an Xbox Live subscription to play online, too. At least Mojang doesn't charge an ongoing fee just for the privilege of being able to connect to servers at all; if you have your own, or know of a server that's open, you can connect to it for free. And if you don't have one a available, soon Mojang (and plenty of other people, already) will be happy to rent you one, for a fee of course. What's so wrong with that?
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