Yes, I was lucky, but I had the advantage of being both right and belligerent about it. Unlike the other small vendors they were intimidating, I clearly wasn't going to back down. So they turned their attention to the people who were. It's like running away from a lion: you don't have to be faster than the lion, just faster than the other guy.My bet is that Putt-Putt doesn't think that Mojang is really infringing on their trademarks; they're probably looking for danegeld -- they want a payoff to go away. It's sort of corporate extortion: "Pay us or we'll litigate you into the ground. You can't afford to fight us long enough to win." Of course, they never go away. Rudyard Kipling put it best: "For once you have paid him the danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane."
My wallet-vote is very small, but until Putt-Putt apologizes to Mojang, any miniature golfing I do will be done at courses they don't own. I think that would be a fair stance for any and all Minecraft players, and for that matter any people concnerned about this kind of extortion.
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First, I tried the old demo version of MCPE. Aside from spawning in an ocean and drowning the first time, I had no clue what was going on, what I was supposed to do (can those things outside groaning break through doors? do I need more than three doors between me and the outdoors? are they still there?) and gave up within 15 minutes.
Then, quite a while later, I got the XBox 360 version right when it first came out in a box (as opposed to XLA). I hurried home, put in the disc, and disappeared into Minecraft. I think I surfaced for dinner (and it was my night to cook, too!). Not long after, I discovered this forum.
A month or so after that, I got Minecraft for the PC. I've been addicted to that ever since. I also have the newest MCPE, and of course I still play on the XBox sometimes, too.
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If that's the case, then why do tens of millions more people play Minecraft now than played in beta?
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It shouldn't be in Servers either. It should be addressed to the staff of The Hive, who I believe have their own forums somewhere. Nobody here can help with this.
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It was fatal.
I learned the hard way why you shouldn't dig straight up. I was playing the XBox 360 edition, and I'd made myself a nice safe hobbit hole in a cliff. I went out to trim off some of the extra dirt above my door, and there was (unbeknownst to me) a creeper above the dirt above my door. I had just about enough time to realize that I'd just dropped an angry creeper on top of myself when ... well, ssssssssssssssss...BOOM!
Not, mind you, that this actually stopped me. On my tombstone, it's probably going to say "Here lies Akynth, who dug straight up."
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So "game ruined" = "some players are OP on some types of multiplayer servers"? That's an, um, interesting point of view. So it's not in fact ruined for people who play in creative, people who play single-player, people who don't play on PvP servers, people who only play with friends, etc?
So report it in the bug tracker. That will actually get it fixed (or at least put it in the queue to be fixed) which is not the case for posting about it on a forum.
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Don't try to hide it, webrosc; everyone knows about you.
*grins, ducks, and runs*
Back to the topic at hand: I never imagined any connection between the names tcboy10playsminecraft and skydoesminecraft. I just looked it up, and there are 679 people on this forum who have "playsminecraft" in their names. The other 678 aren't worried; I don't think you should be either.
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There's a saying that the moderators are the forum janitors, but when I was a mod, I felt we were more like we were the forum tow truck drivers. (hence my avatar ... I've been too lazy to change it) One of the biggest things moderators do -- probably the biggest where I was, in the console section -- is move posts around to the proper areas.
An automatic keyword detector would generate too many false positives. There's a thread right now in MD about problems the poster sees with faction servers. It certainly doesn't belong in Servers -- it's a discussion of things that happen on faction servers, not an advertisement for a specific server. The words "YouTube Channel" might be in a post talking about, say, why Minecraft Celebrity X has more people following his YouTube channel than Minecraft Celebrity Y, or whether certain videos on some YouTube channel are appropriate for young children, or whatever.
So, if you see a mislocated post, simply report it (that little link at the bottom) and select "wrong section" from the drop-down list of reasons. It'll go on the report list, and a mod will scoot it over to the section it belongs in.
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The bottom line is "no". It's not the game, it's you. (I have a whole rant about that; see sig)
The nostalgia isn't really for any given version of Minecraft, even though it feels like it is. That nostalgia is for how you felt when you were new to Minecraft, just learning how things worked and exploring everything. You can never get that back because you're not new to the game anymore. You will never again feel that sense of accomplishment when you do or see things in Minecraft for the very first time, because it will never be the very first time again.
Repeat for any game. Repeat for any book. Repeat for any movie. Repeat for real life.
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No, you can't do that on any of the console versions. You need the PC version for that.
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No. That's not the kind of game Minecraft is.
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So what you're saying, basically, is that it's impossible not to pay for Minecraft. My mother is paying for Minecraft. My aunt, who doesn't even own a computer, is paying for Minecraft (because I'm sure she shops at stores that sell Minecraft T-shirts or something). Everyone who has ever ordered something from Amazon paid for Minecraft.
How far does that extend? For example, Target is selling Halo-themed Lego sets. I've never bought one, but am I paying for Halo anyway, even though I've never bought a Halo-themed anything, since someone who shops there would be paying for Minecraft due to the Minecraft Legos they sell? And my grocery store sells broccoli! I hate the stuff ... but are you saying that I am in fact paying for broccoli because I shop at a retailer that sells it? I buy stuff from Amazon all the time -- you mean I'm paying for everything in the world?
I think this discussion has descended into absurdity. I don't even know how to respond to "If you buy anything from anyone who buys or sells Minecraft-related or Microsoft products, you're paying for Minecraft and therefore have the right to demand that 4J add stuff to the game" because it's on a par with the logic of the Time Cube guy.
I give up. I can argue about anything that makes sense, and a lot of things that don't, but this is beyond my ability.
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So an experience.
I have bad new: you can never have that experience again. It will never be "the first time" again, ever, by definition. You could play exactly the same version of Minecraft you did then, with exactly the same people you met then, and it would still not feel the same, because you're different, just like we all are.
There's a book called Silverlock, by an author with the improbable name of John Myers Myers. I envy anyone who reads it after seeing this post because you'll be reading it for the first time, and I can't anymore. I remember how amazing that book was the first time I read it -- but after I had that experience once, it was done. Over. In the past, forever. That's what most Minecraft nostalgia is, too: not nostalgia for a game version, but for a player version -- the newbie version of ourselves. And he or she is long gone, and will never be back.
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Driven away? The game is somehow worse than it was 2 years ago when I bought it? It looks to me like it's got more content, not less.
That was meant as an example, and a question: You said I'm continuing to pay for Minecraft. I asked, if I were to quit playing Minecraft and play some other game instead, how would I then stop paying for Minecraft?
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If you would be so kind, could you please link one of those press releases for me to read? Thanks.
Quote from your post: "Especially since coding for this game isn't especially hard, so they are likely just sitting on it."
I don't, probably because I'm old enough to expect that what I get will be what comes in the box, not something else to be delivered later. For most of the history of computer games, and for most of the time I've been playing computer games, that's how it's been. If a game looked like something you wanted, you bought it; if it didn't, you didn't, but either way, there was no expectation even that the bugs would be fixed, let alone new content added, game balance changed, and the whole game slowly converted into something very different from what was in that original box. You may argue that it isn't that way, or it shouldn't be that way, but the reason I don't feel that gaps between updates (or even a cessation of updates entirely) are not annoying or unreasonable is that I'm old-school enough to have never expected them in the first place.
As I said, I'd greatly appreciate a link to these promises you're referring to, as I hadn't seen them when I bought it myself, so I can evaluate the primary source.
Why would 4J care about how much money Telltale Games makes, or doesn't make? So much so that they'd sacrifice their own income for a competing computer game company?
If you're saying that Microsoft is requiring this, I find it highly doubtful. The odds are that 4J's contract with Mojang, which far predates the Microsoft sale, is a fairly simple licensing arrangement where Mojang provides the Minecraft source code, 4J produces a console port, and 4J pays Mojang royalties. It's highly doubtful that there is anything in that contract whereby Mojang/Microsoft could require 4J to not produce a product in order to enhance the sales of another product which didn't even exist at the time the contract was written.
As someone who has spent many times the price of Minecraft on spin-offs ranging from the calendar on my wall to the "creepers gonna creep" T-shirt in my closet, I'm not going to deny that Minecraft fans want our "fix". However, I'm much less likely to buy a game I'm not interested in from a company that doesn't make games I like just because it says "Minecraft" on it than I am to buy another T-shirt, or next year's calendar (where is it, anyway?), or any of the rest of the Minecraft paraphernalia out there.
If we grant that this is true, and we know 4J is a smart bunch of people, it would seem that they know about this opportunity, no? And if they know about it and aren't releasing content to capitalize on it, then they're not doing it because they're stupid; they're doing it because something else is preventing them from doing so. Microsoft is also not made up of stupid people (ruthless, yes; stupid, no) so they certainly wouldn't miss a revenue-earning opportunity either. So that argument is self-defeating.
I can't really add much more until I've had time to read those links to 4J's press releases that you mentioned.
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Aside from the fact that's just the same echo graphic that nine gazillion people use to weird out the paranoid and uninitiated, you share your IP with someone every time you read a web page, send an email, etc. It's nothing more than your computer's Internet address, which is necessary if you expect the files for that web page to be delivered, etc., since the server you're fetching them from needs to know where to send them. There's nothing magic about an IP.