I would guess it means minor changes, nothing big enough to actually be worth listing.
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May 8, 2014
Akynth posted a message on Snapshot 14w19a Ready for TestingPosted in: News
I would guess it means minor changes, nothing big enough to actually be worth listing. -
Oct 20, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Snapshot 13w42a Ready for Testing!Apparenlty cats no longer repel creepers. Aside from having a creeper blow up one of my outposts while standing next to a cat, I've tested this in my creative test world, where I keep a big pen full of cats for the purpose, and it's definitely happening. Creepers used to run to the catless end of the pen and cower there; now they move to corners with cats in them, pushing cats out of their way if necessary, and behave as if the cats were not present.Posted in: News
Since there isn't any mention of this, it's probably a bug. I can't report it as such, though, because it appears that Mojira is currently hosed.
Also, to whom it may concern: Don't quote "free Minecraft" spam; just report it. And for anyone who might be inclined to believe it, read the post linked from my profile. (tl;dr version: if something is too good to be true, it's either not good or not true) -
Oct 8, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Minecraft Monday (on Tuesday) Show: Blame Minecraft?Posted in: NewsQuote from Shadowfire27To get to the point, the vanilla game does not have guns, and if this kid was really inspired by this he would bring a giant blue sword to school, not a gun.
Apparently it was the XBox 360 version, which only comes in vanilla. (at least that's the picture they illustrated the article with)
And yeah, if he was acting out Minecraft, he'd be sitting on top of his house at midnight with a bow and arrow. -
Oct 8, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Minecraft Monday (on Tuesday) Show: Blame Minecraft?There's a huge discussion about that, with links to the news story, here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1996411-minecraft-is-now-appearently-a-violent-video-game/Posted in: News
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Jul 28, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Posted in: NewsQuote from Micklar_Tortoise
This makes me laugh. So many companies are doing this now, it is really quite unreal.
I have no real idea why they are doing this...
Two words: cash grab.
Companies do this because they want their targets to pay them money to avoid expensive litigation. It can be cheaper to pay off the company doing it, even if you're 100% in the right, than to fight it in court and prove you're right. If it costs you $100,000 to prove that you're right, then you're out $100,000; if they would have settled for anything less than that, you lose. In the US, at least, publicly-held companies (basically, any that issue stock) are legally required to do whatever will increase their stock price, and spending money on defense in a court case they could just buy their way out of counts. So, they have no choice but to pay off the company threatening them, even if they're totally and completely blameless.
... wouldn't they be better of using this time to put some more excitement into their own company so that more people would use it?
Nope. That would be work. Y'know, like patent trolls actually having to make products instead of threatening to sue companies that they claim are making products that the patents they've bought could in some way be used to attack. Corporate extortion is much easier and more convenient for the company doing it. Instead of building a better mousetrap, extort money from everyone who sells cats.
So much time wasted in contacting other companies that have nothing to do with the complaint that they are making.
But a fair number of them will pay up anyway, because it's cheaper to pay the danegeld than to fight the Dane. They just haven't read enough Rudyard Kipling.
"For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
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Jul 24, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Papercraft Contest!Posted in: NewsQuote from Deathwind31Yes but the contest is being hosted by the company making the app so I guess you have to use their software to participate.
Well, that makes sense to me. If Mojang was hosting a contest for building the best structure in Minecraft, one would expect people to have to have Minecraft to enter. So naturally, since it's 57Digital's contest for the best diorama made with their software, using their software is kind of a requirement.
And, seriously, complaining about four bucks? You can't get lunch for that, unless you like the McDollar Menu and don't eat a lot. -
Jul 16, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Posted in: NewsQuote from RasderThey probably have a bot that seds out hundreds of these daily.
Doubtful. First, they're targeting companies (presumably companies they think have deep pockets) rather than individuals. For instance, they threatened Mojang, not the people who committed the actual trademark infringement. There aren't 26,000 companies a year (assuming 100 letters a day, and giving them weekends off) who they could come anywhere close to connecting to trademark infringement. Second, if there were 26,000 C&D letters going out per year, Notch wouldn't have been the first person to post one for the amusement (or mockery) of the Internet at large. Oh, a human initiated this all right ... either a very stupid or a very greedy human, but a human nonetheless. -
Jul 16, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Posted in: NewsQuote from EpicTaco5Don't remember them sewing when these games came out https://en.wikipedia...t-Putt_(series)
Despite appearances to the contrary, Putt-Putt's legal department is suers, not sewers.
All sewage jokes aside, they didn't threaten to sue over the Putt-Putt computer games because those were about cars, not golf. Trademarks are specific to an industry. For example, Mojang owns "Minecraft" for computer games, and probably various auxiliary things, too, like the little square creeper face pin I have on my hat. But if some company is selling, I dunno, shoring braces for hard rock mines, they could use the name "Minecraft" for them, and have a trademark on it, because it's a different industry. Nobody is going to think computer games and mining equipment are connected.
In this case, the people making and uploading those videos were using the Putt-Putt name in connection with miniature golf. Videos of virtual miniature golf courses, yes, but still golf. That's trademark infringement. Putt-Putt is entitled to exclusive use of the trademark "Putt-Putt" in relation to golf. So they rightfully decided they needed to do something about that.
The problem (or at least source for mockery) here is that they then wrongfully decided that the way to do so would be to threaten the company whose software was used to create the infringing videos. In a sense, it's like them suing the Lego company because someone made a mini golf course with Legos and posted video of it.
Quote from pixelbossSo if I own a company, and my fans use putt putt as the title of let's play videos of a game my company makes, putt putt will sue me? That's the most ridiculous think I have ever heard of that any company did.
Yes, it appears that they will. Or at least they'll threaten to. And they'll also send out threats to people who don't even work for your company, just because the games that are being used by the infringers run on their platform.
Sadly, it's not the most ridiculous thing I've heard of any company doing. Apropos of the current topic, back in the early days of the personal computer industry, Texas Instruments had a nice computer, the TI-99/4. It had a 16-bit CPU when everything else was 8-bit. It had kickass speech synthesis (this used to be a big thing). It could have owned the industry. Except that TI threatened to sue any company that wrote software that would run on it. IBM, on the other hand, built a kind of second-rate computer. The original IBM PC wasn't nearly as good a computer as the TI-99/4. But IBM said "here's the specs, everyone, start writing code!" So people did. This is why we're not playing Minecraft on TI-99/256 computers. As I said in another thread, companies are made up of people, and people can do some amazingly stupid things. Let us never forget Microsoft Bob! (as much as a lot of people, probably including Microsoft, would like to). Or the Star Wars Christmas special that even George Lucas would like to track down and burn every tape of.
I'm an evil person, and the thought crosses my mind that I should make a mini-golf course out of Legos, make a video of it, upload said video to YouTube, and wait to see them send C&D's to the Lego folks. I'd love to watch them walk into that meat-grinder. They'd be lucky if they came out of it owning a couple of golf balls and a bent tee. -
Jul 15, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Mojang did more than sit back and laugh. They posted the C&D online so that all of us can laugh, too!Posted in: News
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Jul 15, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Posted in: NewsQuote from Swiftykitty2KThis lawsuit isn't going to sail. As Rock Paper Shotgun stated here, suing Mojang for the community's creations is like suing Crayola for what someone drew using their crayons. It's stupid.
That has never stopped a company from trying to extort money from another company they think they can force to settle because it's cheaper than fighting. Of course, look at how well that worked out for SCO.
Someone from TSR once came to my booth at GenCon and started in on how my products could be used to violate TSR's copyrights. I cut him off, and said yes, that was true. If they wanted to sue me, I'd wait in line behind Xerox, Lotus, and the Ticonderoga Pencil Company, since photocopiers, word processors (yeah, this was back in the WordPerfect days), and #2 pencils could be used for the exact same thing. Any shakedown artist looks for targets that will give in without a fight. Mojang is not that kind of company. I'm really looking forward to their reply. (has everyone here written to Putt-Putt and told them they don't get another cent of your money until they send a written apology to Mojang?)
There's a thing called "goodwill" that is as much of a business asset as buildings and desks. Somehow, I suspect Putt-Putt has slightly less of it than they had before they chose to make fools of themselves in public.
This coming weekend, I'm going to be in a place that has a Putt-Putt Family Fun Center, along with several other miniature golf courses. (yeah, tourist trap ... I'm actually going there on business) The odds are pretty high that I will play a game of miniature golf (because of this issue if for no other reason). I think we can all guess where I won't be playing. Though I suppose it would be rude of me to stop by the Putt-Putt franchise and wave my receipts from their competitors at the hapless staff. It's not their fault the CEO is a tool. -
Jul 14, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?THIS IS NOT A COPYRIGHT ISSUE!Posted in: News
This is a trademark issue. Trademarks are not anything like copyrights. Copyrights are not anything like trademarks. They are two different things.
A copyright is, literally, the right to copy something. It is the ownership of the expression of an idea -- for example, the words in this post. I own the copyright to what you're reading right now. (strange, but true) As part of the minecraftforum TOS, I've licensed it to Curse. But it's still copyrighted to me, and has been from the moment I clicked "post". In the US, formerly, one had to send paperwork (and cash) to the Copyright Office in order to obtain a copyright; nowadays it's automatic, though if you want to be able to sue for triple damages, the copyright registration process is still necessary.
A trademark is something that identifies an item in trade. For example, the name "Minecraft" is a trademark owned by Mojang. Trademarks come in two basic forms, registered and common-law. A registered trademark, in the US, is registered with the Patent & Trademark Office, and gets the ® symbol. A common-law, or unregistered, trademark, is one used in trade but not actually registered (possibly because it can't meet the requirements for registration, which are next to impossible if it is, for example, a common word -- "Windows" didn't get its ® for years because of that) uses a ™ symbol instead.
Today (and again, I'm speaking of the US; it varies elsewhere) a copyright lasts for the lifetime of the creator plus 70 years. A trademark lasts as long as it remains in use or its registration is renewed (depending on which kind it is). A copyright does not have to be defended; it's there for that hundred-plus-years (the modern interpretation of "a limited time", because what was good enough for Mark Twain isn't good enough for Joe Schmoe ... or, more precisely, for the Walt Disney Company). A trademark has to be defended if a trademark is used in a generic sense without challenge, the owner can lose the trademark. That happened to Aspirin, for instance; it was originally a trademark for acetylsalicylic acid, and became genericized.
If you read the letter from Putt-Putt, they repeatedly refer to trademark infringement. Trademarks are specific to a particular industry or market segment. For example, although I have since abandoned it, I once owned a trademark for a computer product which was also a trademark used by a textile company. We were doing two different things, in two different markets, and there was absolutely no possibility that our customers would mistake one of us for the other. Therefore, we both got to use that mark. That's why you could have an Apple Records and an Apple Computer Company, and a whopping big lawsuit when Apple (the computer company) started selling music, which was moving into Apple's (the record company's) market.
Yes, the folks behind that ridiculous C&D do own a trademark on "Putt-Putt" in connection with golf. Odds are, they don't own it in connection with cars, which is why there can also be a fictional car called Putt-Putt. But they do own it for golf. The people who are using that trademarked term for their golf-related Minecraft worlds and mods are infringing on Putt-Putt Family Fun Centers' trademark. However, the important thing here (in connection with the C&D) is that Mojang is not any of those people. Notch is not any of those people. And most certainly, the (former) XBox lead at Microsoft isn't any of those people. But yes, they do own a trademark, and they have just as much right to it as Mojang has to "Minecraft". They registered it, so it's theirs. People shouldn't be infringing on it. But that's between Putt-Putt and the trademark infringers -- who are not at, associated with, or under the control of, Mojang. Or 4J. Or Microsoft.
And it's a trademark, not a copyright. It's registered with the Patent & Trademark Office, which is part of the Commerce Department, not the Copyright Office, which is part of the Library of Congress. The differences in them are enormous, especially in the context of a case like this one. They shouldn't be confused for each other. -
Jul 13, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Fuzzy, I seriously don't think that Mojang's lawyers (and though Mojang is a small company, they've made cubic dollars from MC, and probably can afford better lawyers than Putt-Putt) need any advice from random people on forums. Incidentally, this is about trademarks, not copyrights, so prior use is irrelevant; the company that registered the trademark, or which has used the mark for commercial purposes if not registered, a TM instead of a (R), what's called a common law trademark) owns it. Putt- Putt does indeed own that trademark, and people are infringing on it and should stop. It's just that none of those people are in any way under the control of Mojang's, 4J, Microsoft, or (!?) Ztnga.Posted in: News
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Jul 12, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Posted in: NewsQuote from HosfacWith the internet being the internet, any search can pull up thousands of potential copyright violations on a daily basis. There's just not enough time in the human lifespan, never mind a work day, to personally review every last one. But they all still need to be dealt with because each one is a potential leak in their customer's wallet. So they bulk mail these cease and desist orders.
That's a good way to get counter-sued. A company that receives a C&D letter spends time and money responding to it, and if it's totally baseless like this they get annoyed, and some of them will get annoyed enough to tell their lawyers to make sure you don't do that again. Ever.
That aside, it's clear that they did personally review this, because they included a list of YouTube videos infringing on their trademark. I did a couple of searches myself on YouTube, and got hits on a lot of things unrelated to Minecraft. So at some point, a human being culled the hits and selected just the ones appropriate to their target -- Mojang, in this case. And while one can find a fair number of violations of the Putt-Putt trademark (by the way, they're taking about trademarks here, not copyrights; totally different issue) it's far from thousands of violators a day. It's doubtful that it's even thousands a year. Also, whowever drafted the letter had to decide who to CC it to. (okay, neither of the CC's actually works for Mojang, but Putt-Putt did try) Checking all of this out out before you give someone a reason to send their company lawyers after you is just due diligence. Also CYA.
It's also a bit of an understatement to say that arguing that these 3rd party mods are possibly resulting in lost revenue for a real world establishment is dubious, at best.
Again, you're thinking copyright, not trademark. In a trademark case, the concern is dilution of a trademark -- that is, confusing potential customers about who made or owns something. That's why, for example, in writers' magazines you see things like ads from the company that makes Rollerblades demanding that authors refer to a character in a story, not as "rollerblading", but as "roller skating on Rollerblades® brand of inline roller skates." Not, I suspect, that anyone actually does, but by running those ads (and suing the occasional egregious violator) they're demonstrating that they're actively protecting their trademark. Otherwise, "rollerblades" might be used to refer to any brand of inline skates, and thereby become genericized, the same way "zipper" did with reference to slide fasteners. With trademarks it's all about the identity of a product or the producer, not any gain or loss to the company because of someone else using it.
But either way, these guys are just doing what they were paid to do. If it was your money, you wouldn't think it's so stupid.
Actually, it has been my money. And I still think it's stupid.
I have a somewhat different angle on this than most people here because I have created and sold copyrighted products, I've owned trademarks, and I've dealt with infringement of both. It's been, not some company's money that I'm nominally responsible for, but my own income and my own livelihood. I have sent out C&D letters. I've exchanged some very interesting email. In one case, the FBI even got involved (one word: warez). So I'm responding from the position of "if it was your money" ... because it has been.
And when I took any such actions, I made damn sure that I was addressing the right target and that the people I was contacting worked for the right company. Seriously ... Don Mattrick? Unless there are two of them in the game industry, they're sending their C&D to a guy who works for the wrong company. Two wrong companies, if you count Zynga.
This is not standard procedure. if it was, Notch would have had a whole stack of C&D's to post from companies much bigger than Putt-Putt whose trademarks have been tromped all over with hobnail boots by MC players. This is either unconscionable sloppiness or a naked cash grab, and either one is bad. -
Jul 12, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Posted in: NewsQuote from oukskirts
What I want to know is why is this posted to the public? If it is such a common thing as stated in the post why even bother posting it? Are they trying to sabotage their business by making this public or something?
Mojang posted it, not Putt-Putt. I assume they wanted to expose it for public mockery. It's certainly worthy. -
Jul 11, 2013
Akynth posted a message on Mojang to Cease and Desist...Putt Putt?Copyright laws are not stupid. Someone who creates something puts a lot of work into it, and they deserve to have their rights protected. Now, the length of copyright terms has gotten ridiculous -- stuff that was created before I was born will still be in copyright after I die, which is certainly only "a limited time" within the letter, not the spirit, of the US Constitution.Posted in: News
However, this isn't about copyrights; it's about trademarks. There's a BIG difference. They're covered by different laws. They exist for different reasons. They're registered with different agencies in the government. And enforcement works in different ways. In particular, copyrights exist from the moment something is "fixed in tangible form" (say, written down) and do not have to be affirmatively enforced. Trademarks, on the other hand, do have to be enforced or they're lost, such as has happned with trademarks from Aspirin to Zipper in the past. And trademark laws have, in recent years, been used much less often to protect a company's actual product and identity from look-alikes and more often as a weapon against competitors or a tool to pry money loose from unrelated companies.
That latter is, I think, what's happening here. Putt-Putt is hoping that Mojang will hand over money, so they can get thousands, maybe even millions, of dollars for no more effort than sending out a letter. If their legal department is so poor that they genuinely believed that Mojang was in control of what customers did with their product, they'd be fired for incompetence. I think this is a cash grab.
We all play Minecraft. We all know people who play Minecraft. And, it appears, at least some of us play miniature golf. What we, as players, need to do is to contact Putt-Putt and tell them, very politely, that we are not cool with what they're doing, and until they cease and desist in their own actions, and apologize to Mojang, we and anyone we can influence will spend our money with their competitors instead of them. We have to make it clear that it is their actions which has caused this -- that we don't want to do business with people who act as they have. Consider that if even a thousand people out of the millions who play Minecraft don't spend $100 each with Putt-Putt in the next year, that's a hundred K in money they've lost because of this groundless threat to Mojang. This kind of corporate extortion only works because the customers of both companies tolerate it. We don't have to. - To post a comment, please login.
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That PDF reader thing has been turning up everywhere, generally in deceptive download links as described.
Why do they want me to download that thing so badly? Not for any reason that's good for me, certainly, so they must have a reason of their own to want their software on my computer. And given that their fundamental dishonesty shows up in their constant attempts at tricking people (especially children) into downloading their stuff when they think they're getting something else, I'm pretty sure they're pushing malware of some sort.
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Monstrophobia (from Latin 'monstrum' -- monster)
Fear of mobs. Yes, it's a real thing in Minecraft. I played with someone who would not leave his house at night, put up multiple rings of concentric fences, filled the whole area with torches, and was terrified of caves because mobs might be in them. This was in a world with keepInventory on -- but he was still so terrified of encountering mobs that he acted like it was hardcore and he was down to one heart.
Somehow, I don't think he watches horror movies.
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The first, Meeting of the Mines, had a "convention" of sorts, in that there was a place and people were in it, but none of what they promised* (up to and including the actual duration of the convention!) actually took place. Last I heard, they were getting sued.
Then came Mineorama, whose organizers sold something like half a million dollars of tickets, cancelled the convention** a few days before it was supposed to take place and absconded with the money. As far as I know they're not getting sued because nobody can even find them.
Google can tell you more of the ugly details, but it basically comes down to people being really, really paranoid about Minecraft conventions that are not Minecon because of those two scams.
*One of the more interesting bits was that they promised giveaways of game consoles; they actually gave away a few pens with their company name on them. Yeah, left-over office supplies.
**according to some people who investigated, they had not done basic things like reserving the advertised venue, which would have had to be done months beforehand.
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After "Meeting of the Mines" and "Mineorama", a lot of people are very, very paranoid about any unofficial Minecraft convention of any kind. And, frankly, I don't blame them.
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Make sure you have valid doors. Check the wiki for a good explanation of what actually counts as a 'door' to the game.
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Your friend used your computer to go to a website that sells stolen Minecraft accounts.
Think about that for a minute: your so-called "friend" used your computer to go to a website operated by self-admitted thieves and hackers.
And thanks to your friend, now your account is one of those stolen accounts.
There are two things you need to do. One, there is a very high probability that your computer now contains some sort of malware -- if you don't have a good anti-virus program, get one yesterday. Also get MalwareBytes. Find what has crawled into your computer and get it out of there. Two, you need to contact Mojang directly to see if you can recover your Minecraft account. If you have the transaction ID from when you bought it, you probably can. Other people can tell you more about this. Actually, three things. The third involves physical security: do not let other people use your computer, because you just lost your Minecraft account as the result of what you let your friend do.
(oh, and if you say something about what your problem is in the thread title, instead of "HALP ME PLZZZ" which tells us nothing about what you need, the people who in fact can help you are more likely to respond)
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Same here, for the same reason. And that's really the only thing I regret.
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Um ... servers have not "upgraded" to the Win10 version, because it isn't an upgrade. It's a different game. In terms of comparison to the PC version, it's a downgrade -- it's mobile Minecraft on a desktop. This is a wonderful thing if you have a bunch of friends playing MCPE and you want to be able to play with them, but MC/PC servers are not switching over to becoming MCPE servers! That would just be silly.
To reiterate:
If you want to play with people playing regular Minecraft for Windows/Mac/Linux, get MC/PC.
If you want to play with people playing MCPE on mobile devices, get MC/Win10.
If you want to play with people on a console, get MC for that console.
(and of course you have to have that exact same console)
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As far as I know, yes. MC/PC and MC/Win10 are two totally different programs, just like MCPE or the console versions are. (I've bought three different flavors of MC myself, so I can relate)
Also, remember that MC/PC and MC/Win10 have different multiplayer communities -- they can't play with each other. So before you pick one or the other for its multiplayer capabilities, be certain you know which one the people you want to play with are using.
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No.
The names really make this more confusing than it has to be (thanks, Mojang) but here's how it works out:
Advantages of the various editions:
Minecraft/PC -- maximum flexibility, most stuff, most mods
MCPE -- mobile, so you can get your MC fix anywhere
MC/Win10 -- able to play multiplayer with MCPE players
(there are also five flavors of MC for consoles and one for the Raspberry Pi, but I'm leaving those out)
Basically, the only reason you'd want MC/Win10 is if you want to be able to play cross-platform with people who are playing the Pocket Edition. If you want to be able to play multiplayer with people playing the PC (including Mac and Linux, btw) version, you want MC/PC.
Also, added to clarify: MC/PC can't play with MCPE or with MC/Win10 (or with MC/console). MC/Win10 can only play with MCPE or other MC/Win10, not MC/PC or MC/console.
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A. I'm not a little kid.
B. I played Halo and COD before I played MC.
I wear a creeper face pin on my hat IRL, and sometimes a Minecraft T-shirt, so as a result I meet a lot of Minecraft players. I have met every age from barely beyond the rugrat stage to a lady about 70 whose grandkids got her started playing, and when they quit she didn't. At the grocery store, the assistant manager of one department chats about game updates. At Costco, one of the food demonstrators always talks about redstone when she (yes, she) should be handing out food samples. There's more than one person at the counter at the used book store, can't forget them. A waiter at a restaurant a couple of weeks ago. My SMP server admin is about to graduate from college. I think you're getting the point. I have met literally dozens of Minecraft players IRL in the time I've been playing, perhaps a hundred or more, and (possibly because I am one myself) the overwhelming majority have been adults.
Briefly addressing Roobish's statement that we should "...try helping kids to learn how to better interact with people...": No. I am not here to educate other people's children. It's not my job. It's not my place. And I don't want to do it. I expect everyone I'm playing with to act like a civilized human being -- and that goes for every game, not Minecraft -- no matter what their age. (I remember a long-ago ex-guildie in WoW who acted like he was 12 ... his son, an actual 12-year-old, was more mature than he was) I want to play a game, not be a teacher, a playground monitor, or a parent to other people's children. Mind you, I don't play on servers that are promoted as being for children -- it's just plain rude (not to mention wrong) to go into an environment that's one particular way and demand that it be changed to suit your wishes. That's true whether it's someone how goes on a child-friendly server and expects other players not to act like children or someone who goes on an adult server who expects other players not to swear because he's a child. When I have time to play, I want to spend it playing, not teaching other people's children the things their own parents should have taught them already.
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Master of Orion II was released in 1996. I was playing it a couple of days ago, as I have been on and off since, well, 1996. From what I can tell from a quick online search, I'm not the only one. (it's a good game, btw, and you can pick it up for cheap at GOG) And that game has not been changed, modified, patched, or otherwise dorked around with in 19 years. Aside from the fact that Minecraft is not "getting worse", there's no reason to assume it is not going to have "legs" just as much as MOO2. So I'd guess that people will be playing it at least 19 years after its last update.
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So why can't you play with friends now?
Why can't you play with no mods now?
Why can't you play with no PvP now?
Why can't you just build and work together now?
For that matter ... why can't you play Alpha now?
The answer is simple: you can.
But it's not who you played with or how you played that you miss. The thing that's changed isn't the game -- it's you. None of it's gone; it's right there waiting for you to play it. The person who played with your brother for hours doesn't exist anymore; he's past-you, and you're present-you. I'm not going to rewrite my whole long post -- it's back on page 3. Read it and assume I'm saying the whole thing again.
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I turned down the volume on friendly creature sounds -- it helps a lot with the villagers' sighing. (also with the fact that I have 64 cows in my basement)
Villagers are important. Aside from populating villages, their trades add a bit to the later part of the game (and give you something to do with all that zombie meat!)
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What??? There have been no updates since 1.8.2, just bug fixes and security patches. 1.9 is going to be the first update in ages.
And nobody seems to play it anymore? What am I, chopped liver? What game am I playing? What are all the other people in this thread playing? What are the people I meet IRL (I wear a creeper pin on my hat) playing?