I hate always online licensing DRM schemes cursed-woog

  • CrushKillDestroySwag
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    10 months ago

    I bought Minecraft back when they made you make a Mojang account to download it - some years later I wanted to download it again but I didn't have my Mojang details, and Microsoft was all "uhh you should have connected your Mojang account to you Microsoft account idiot" like bruv I just want to make a dirt house, get bored, and then never play this again for ten more years.

    Anyway I tried Minetest and it was pretty good.

    • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      I just want to make a dirt house, get bored, and then never play this again for ten more years.

      so true

  • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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    10 months ago

    When did this get implemented? I'm guessing with the new non-Java version of the game?

    • TheronGuard [he/him]
      hexagon
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      10 months ago

      This was in Microsoft's Minecraft launcher, so probably whenever that got introduced. I've only got the Java version though.

        • raven [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Is that true? I thought if you had bought java before a certain point you automatically got bedrock when it launched, but it's still just one license?

          • Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]
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            10 months ago

            Yep! If you owned either one before June 7th 2022, you got the other one automatically given to you. And if you didn't own either of them before that date and you buy from the official website you get both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.

            https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java---bedrock-edition-pc-out-june-7

      • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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        10 months ago

        I haven't played Minecraft since they got bought out by Microsoft. So I have no idea what's happening with it these days. I remember my friend recommended the game to me and I missed out on paying $5 for the Alpha version by like a week and got the Beta version for $10, I think (or maybe it was 10 and 15).

  • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    i miss the old minecraft.net :(

    there was one multiplayer server on the java applet version that i used to play all the time; it was some sort of team based pvp

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Get minetest. Once they start migrating all the mods over it's joever for minecraft.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    bit idea: DDoS the licensing servers to piss everyone off