IGN: discomatt
Age: 25
First Minecraft version used: infdev
Screenshot of work: http://mdanielson.net/mc/
Talk about your most memorable Minecraft Experience: Hard to say, it's all been fun. Pretty much every major content update
User name*: discomatt
Age*: 25
Location/Time Zone*: Vancouver/-08:00GMT
Did someone refer you?: No
Minecraft Version (eg 1.8.1)*: 1.8.1
Land/Town: Pick for me pls
Job: Blacksmith
Bio*: I left home at 25. My family has been wealthy for generations - A long line of chefs for the nobles of a distant continent. They were close-minded elitists, raised with no morals or interests in anything below the wealth gap. The family name was long hated and envied both due to abilities and ignorance. My grandmother was a rare breed in our family - a beautiful cartographer who started her life in the lower-class. She acted as my mother, as the woman who gave birth to me was very disinterested. She told me stories of her exploits, and created an overwhelming curiosity in my head. My family's library was more than ample enough to satisfy it (especially the mining and usage of redstone). As I grew older, I became tired of the way I was assumed to be due to my name. With encouragement from my grandmother, the knowledge of our library, and money I had saved helping father in the kitchen, I jumped on a boat for Silvania to start anew.
On another note - I'm a professional web developer (more back end, but I've played with graphics) and can help you out with your site if you need it.
This has got to end. I am going to make one post on this stupid note... and IMO, it sums everything up.
People who bought the game BEFORE Notch sold it 'as-is' are definitely entitled to a full game. If Notch wants to do one more update, and call it completed, he can. I doubt his company will go far with that practice, though. Regardless, I've spent $10 on a crappy fast food meal before, so I'm more upset that something with so much potential isn't getting as much attention as it deserves.
Progress, thus far, does not represent a single talented programmer working full time. I've never programmed Java in a production environment, but I know what 30 hours a week of actual brainstorming/writing/rewriting/testing can produce. Notch is NOT working on Minecraft full time. Whatever. He now owns a company, and if he wants to half-ass things, the company will probably fall. His choice.
Bitching on the forums isn't going to help. Send him an e-mail. Use spell-check. Be polite, courteous, and bring up valid points. If he still wants to ignore you, stop playing. Find something else to do.
Incorrect. What you payed for was the game, which has not been released yet. You have been given access to the Beta for testing purposes.
Heh. Get your head out of your butt before you speak. It says on the site paying for it gives you early access to the game. What kind of idiot would PAY to find bugs for someone else? Every time I've been a beta TESTER it's been voluntary or I've been paid. To quote the purchasing page; "Please note that when you buy the game, you're paying for the game as it is right now! You will also get the full version of Minecraft when it is released. Read the copyright information for more information on your purchase... ...Here's what you get: You get early access to the game to a discounted price! You help fund the development of Minecraft. Custom skins in multiplayer. Once you've bought the game, it's yours. No DRM." Find where it says I'm a beta TESTER. Please. I have PAID for access to the beta TO HELP FUND DEVELOPMENT.
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That depends on where you live. If you live in the US, doing so can earn you a $10,000 fine and 5 years in prison. They take their DMCA rules pretty seriously down there.
Head still in butt here obviously. For one, I own a license to play this game. Acquiring the binaries from other sources is really a stretch as a violation of DMCA. The site/people providing these files are in the wrong, not me.
Found a version though. If anyone is curious, the Multiplay community forums has instructions and a link to the older files. I'm not going to link it here for obvious reasons, but Google is your friend.
A prompt in the loader. 'A new version is available... would you like to update?' Too much to ask I suppose.
Before anyone says "You're beta testing blah blah." No. I'm not. I'm a paying customer. I have paid for the right to play the game before it's finished. I'm not a beta tester.
Ah well. I'll see if any pirate sites have the files I want. It's against terms for them to distribute, sure, but I have every right to download and use them :biggrin.gif:
Thanks for the help guys
[edit] Kinda funny. The cracked loader (yes, I originally pirated this game. Sorry, wouldn't have bought it otherwise) by default will keep your old JAR file, and only update if you tell it to. [/edit]
Edit: Thanks for your post dwellufool, I know it's not going to be instantaneous. And yes, in 64bit vista, if I open up firefox and Minecraft I'm pretty much using all 2 gigs of RAM, so I'm thinking I need to wait this out on updates from Notch, or my 4gb DDR3. Whichever arrives first.
Heh, you realize you'll need a new mobo that supports DDR3, right?
edit - And for all you goofy 'you need this and this' people. I ran doom3 back when it was new at 30fps at 800x600 (no aa or filtering) on a P4 2.4mhz 800fsb with 2 gigs of slow ass value DDR and a geforce ti 4600. There's no WAY minecraft should use as many resources as doom3 did.
I understand it's java, and java isn't exactly streamlined, but your minmum sys reqs are pretty funny.
Prior to beta, my machine listed above played the game fine. Doesn't run very well since updating.
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Minecraft is pretty much digital Lego with less blocks and redstone.
We don't need 'real-life' Minecraft. It exists already.
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Age: 25
First Minecraft version used: infdev
Screenshot of work: http://mdanielson.net/mc/
Talk about your most memorable Minecraft Experience: Hard to say, it's all been fun. Pretty much every major content update
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Age*: 25
Location/Time Zone*: Vancouver/-08:00GMT
Did someone refer you?: No
Minecraft Version (eg 1.8.1)*: 1.8.1
Land/Town: Pick for me pls
Job: Blacksmith
Bio*: I left home at 25. My family has been wealthy for generations - A long line of chefs for the nobles of a distant continent. They were close-minded elitists, raised with no morals or interests in anything below the wealth gap. The family name was long hated and envied both due to abilities and ignorance. My grandmother was a rare breed in our family - a beautiful cartographer who started her life in the lower-class. She acted as my mother, as the woman who gave birth to me was very disinterested. She told me stories of her exploits, and created an overwhelming curiosity in my head. My family's library was more than ample enough to satisfy it (especially the mining and usage of redstone). As I grew older, I became tired of the way I was assumed to be due to my name. With encouragement from my grandmother, the knowledge of our library, and money I had saved helping father in the kitchen, I jumped on a boat for Silvania to start anew.
On another note - I'm a professional web developer (more back end, but I've played with graphics) and can help you out with your site if you need it.
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People who bought the game BEFORE Notch sold it 'as-is' are definitely entitled to a full game. If Notch wants to do one more update, and call it completed, he can. I doubt his company will go far with that practice, though. Regardless, I've spent $10 on a crappy fast food meal before, so I'm more upset that something with so much potential isn't getting as much attention as it deserves.
Progress, thus far, does not represent a single talented programmer working full time. I've never programmed Java in a production environment, but I know what 30 hours a week of actual brainstorming/writing/rewriting/testing can produce. Notch is NOT working on Minecraft full time. Whatever. He now owns a company, and if he wants to half-ass things, the company will probably fall. His choice.
Bitching on the forums isn't going to help. Send him an e-mail. Use spell-check. Be polite, courteous, and bring up valid points. If he still wants to ignore you, stop playing. Find something else to do.
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Broke with the patch.
Now we're waiting on Bukkit... which will probably break once the modding API is released. Assuming the modding API gives deep enough access.
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The violation of terms (Illegal in most countries) part is hosting the old versions for others to download.
From now on I'm keeping a version archive somewhere on my computer so I don't have to worry.
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Heh. Get your head out of your butt before you speak. It says on the site paying for it gives you early access to the game. What kind of idiot would PAY to find bugs for someone else? Every time I've been a beta TESTER it's been voluntary or I've been paid. To quote the purchasing page; "Please note that when you buy the game, you're paying for the game as it is right now! You will also get the full version of Minecraft when it is released. Read the copyright information for more information on your purchase... ...Here's what you get: You get early access to the game to a discounted price! You help fund the development of Minecraft. Custom skins in multiplayer. Once you've bought the game, it's yours. No DRM." Find where it says I'm a beta TESTER. Please. I have PAID for access to the beta TO HELP FUND DEVELOPMENT.
Head still in butt here obviously. For one, I own a license to play this game. Acquiring the binaries from other sources is really a stretch as a violation of DMCA. The site/people providing these files are in the wrong, not me.
Found a version though. If anyone is curious, the Multiplay community forums has instructions and a link to the older files. I'm not going to link it here for obvious reasons, but Google is your friend.
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A prompt in the loader. 'A new version is available... would you like to update?' Too much to ask I suppose.
Before anyone says "You're beta testing blah blah." No. I'm not. I'm a paying customer. I have paid for the right to play the game before it's finished. I'm not a beta tester.
Ah well. I'll see if any pirate sites have the files I want. It's against terms for them to distribute, sure, but I have every right to download and use them :biggrin.gif:
Thanks for the help guys
[edit] Kinda funny. The cracked loader (yes, I originally pirated this game. Sorry, wouldn't have bought it otherwise) by default will keep your old JAR file, and only update if you tell it to. [/edit]
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How the hell do I roll back to last version (until Bukkit is finished) so I don't have to upgrade my server?
Do we have to always keep previous versions of MC archived on our computer?
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Heh, you realize you'll need a new mobo that supports DDR3, right?
edit - And for all you goofy 'you need this and this' people. I ran doom3 back when it was new at 30fps at 800x600 (no aa or filtering) on a P4 2.4mhz 800fsb with 2 gigs of slow ass value DDR and a geforce ti 4600. There's no WAY minecraft should use as many resources as doom3 did.
I understand it's java, and java isn't exactly streamlined, but your minmum sys reqs are pretty funny.
Prior to beta, my machine listed above played the game fine. Doesn't run very well since updating.
Thankfully, it's my old benchmark machine now
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I still get this warning. I choose to ignore it.