Proud to say I pirated, played for 2 days and didn't play it again until I could buy it. Wonderful game Notch has going, so much potential. :smile.gif:
I pirated 17_04 and played single-player a while, then I realized a new update came out and was about to pirate it, but then I thought,
"I am going to have to pirate this every time its updated in order to keep me playing"
And then I read that Minecraft is updated very often, and found that I would rather not waste my time download every update (because I'm OCD like that), and also that I need to buy it in order to play online which didn't bother me at first but as I played more it bugged me more and more
So I eventually I came across a $25 visa gift card and tried to buy it, but PayPal was being gay to at the time so I had to wait.
I got it though and I am very happy about it now. Thank you for making a game that will take over the world.
Pirating just leads to more sales! What can I say?
Just so you know, that doesn't make it ok...
Since when did it become socially acceptable to steal?
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Pirating just leads to more sales! What can I say?
Just so you know, that doesn't make it ok...
Since when did it become socially acceptable to steal?
When so many people pay for the product after they know they like it.
Ok, so then I'll just go on over to the bakery, steal a loaf of bread, then come back and pay for it only if I liked it?
Not how the real world works, I'm afraid.
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Long story short, the issues behind piracy are very complex. And while it isn't exactly stealing (it's copyright infringement, which is a big difference), and it is wrong, it does have a largely positive effect on sales of minecraft. Just read the thread: there are many dozen posts along the lines of "i pirated to try it then i bought it because it was so awesome, and i got some friends hooked too".
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What use is an ear that does not hear, or a mouth that does not speak?
Aww. I played the pirated too, then stopped. I mean hard work, man, hard work.
Until now I stalk the forum, teased by these updates, trying to make me... ]: no, I has to stay strong.
Honestly...I really hope that we soon get another way to buy it. I don't like/use paypal. :s
And I also agree on the free trial period. Maybe make it last 2-3 in game days, or something...That seems like enough time to get the idea of the game.
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I don't get what pirating is.. For me being young, I don't understand "Pirating"...
"Piracy" is the scary name they chose for arranging the bits on your hard-drive in the same pattern as the bits on someone else's hard-drive without sending a payment to the first person to arrange bits on his hard-drive in that fashion.
Since when did it become socially acceptable to steal?
When so many people pay for the product after they know they like it.
Ok, so then I'll just go on over to the bakery, steal a loaf of bread, then come back and pay for it only if I liked it?
Not how the real world works, I'm afraid.
Yes, but in real-life, if you steal a loaf of bread, the person now has no loaf of bread. Online, if you download something, the person you downloaded it from still has it, unless they decide to delete it.
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I just hope that Notch gets that Credit method set up. I really want to play this game, but I don't think my paypal using friends will be up for helping me out.
So until the credit card payment is set up, I'm sitting here wishing I was playing. The torrented version I got to tide me over until then doesn't let me play.
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A friend told me on the MInecraft who's from the B.F. (Another forums, transformed name into initials), after I played some games on Creative Singleplayer realized how bored it was since it was my first try, after that I made a account and played Creative Multiplayer for awhile, I liked that servers (Well some of them) are modded. Soon after I decided I want Alpha because I always wanted a Survival game where I can evolve.
I asked my friend if he can buy me, he said he might. Then we had a 1 week fight about this. After all, he told me that I get it if I make a application for a clan which he wanted to join, by my obsession with MInecraft, I did him a application (A mansion) and Furnished it and such, even let him take credit. Pictures of the Mansion: http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4779 ... d00247.pnghttp://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7263 ... d00249.pnghttp://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6203 ... d00252.pnghttp://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6923 ... d00267.png ; for anyone who seen that topic on that forum, c.e. did NOT make the Mansion. as a secondary note, I didn't put that much effort into it, he wanted to get it faster for a reason or another, at midnight, while I was feeling sick, he forced me to continue, and I did. After I finish the Mansion he told me that I have to wait 1-3 weeks to get the game, I was pissed, soon after he told me his brother (Which was going to pay the bank) scammed him. I was really pissed. I kept arguing with him for awhile, then I was talking to a friend. I got his Steam ID from a server, apparently, the first guy who scammed me got me to that server. Cutting out the edges, soon after, the new guy I met, who was a troll, quite of annoying sometimes bought me Minecraft. After that my reaction to the first guy was more or less indecent. Currently I am still friends with the first and second person, while the second warns me that he will dispute sometime, however I'm getting the hand of it, since I know he's a troll, the first guy owes me a game, I told him Battlefield 2 Ultimate Collection on steam. He said he needs money and such, however, I still didn't get it. (I asked him for BF2UC 1-2 weeks ago.) So yeah, this is my story about how I got Minecraft, I waited around 1 month watching videos on Youtube about Alpha, then I finally got it from another person. And I didn't pirate it meanwhile either.
The name of the first person (Who scammed me) is canto xe / Nightelf21.
"I am going to have to pirate this every time its updated in order to keep me playing"
And then I read that Minecraft is updated very often, and found that I would rather not waste my time download every update (because I'm OCD like that), and also that I need to buy it in order to play online which didn't bother me at first but as I played more it bugged me more and more
So I eventually I came across a $25 visa gift card and tried to buy it, but PayPal was being gay to at the time so I had to wait.
I got it though and I am very happy about it now. Thank you for making a game that will take over the world.
Just so you know, that doesn't make it ok...
Since when did it become socially acceptable to steal?
When so many people pay for the product after they know they like it.
Ok, so then I'll just go on over to the bakery, steal a loaf of bread, then come back and pay for it only if I liked it?
Not how the real world works, I'm afraid.
Until now I stalk the forum, teased by these updates, trying to make me... ]: no, I has to stay strong.
And I also agree on the free trial period. Maybe make it last 2-3 in game days, or something...That seems like enough time to get the idea of the game.
Money speaks, you know.
Yes, but in real-life, if you steal a loaf of bread, the person now has no loaf of bread. Online, if you download something, the person you downloaded it from still has it, unless they decide to delete it.
Ok, so then I'll just go on over to the bakery, steal a loaf of bread, then come back and pay for it only if I liked it?
Not how the real world works, I'm afraid.[/quote]
No but it is how the internet works.
So until the credit card payment is set up, I'm sitting here wishing I was playing. The torrented version I got to tide me over until then doesn't let me play.
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Yes, but he mentioned that he did have a credit card, but figured you'd need a Paypal account to pay. That's not the case.
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I asked my friend if he can buy me, he said he might. Then we had a 1 week fight about this. After all, he told me that I get it if I make a application for a clan which he wanted to join, by my obsession with MInecraft, I did him a application (A mansion) and Furnished it and such, even let him take credit. Pictures of the Mansion: http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/4779 ... d00247.png http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/7263 ... d00249.png http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6203 ... d00252.png http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/6923 ... d00267.png ; for anyone who seen that topic on that forum, c.e. did NOT make the Mansion. as a secondary note, I didn't put that much effort into it, he wanted to get it faster for a reason or another, at midnight, while I was feeling sick, he forced me to continue, and I did. After I finish the Mansion he told me that I have to wait 1-3 weeks to get the game, I was pissed, soon after he told me his brother (Which was going to pay the bank) scammed him. I was really pissed. I kept arguing with him for awhile, then I was talking to a friend. I got his Steam ID from a server, apparently, the first guy who scammed me got me to that server. Cutting out the edges, soon after, the new guy I met, who was a troll, quite of annoying sometimes bought me Minecraft. After that my reaction to the first guy was more or less indecent. Currently I am still friends with the first and second person, while the second warns me that he will dispute sometime, however I'm getting the hand of it, since I know he's a troll, the first guy owes me a game, I told him Battlefield 2 Ultimate Collection on steam. He said he needs money and such, however, I still didn't get it. (I asked him for BF2UC 1-2 weeks ago.) So yeah, this is my story about how I got Minecraft, I waited around 1 month watching videos on Youtube about Alpha, then I finally got it from another person. And I didn't pirate it meanwhile either.