Any minecraft version is free with a little bit of trickery
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I mean, I bought it in beta and have bought it since several times over.
I bought it in Alpha and was told I’d have it forever and Microsoft deleted my account and I hate them
If you haven’t heard There’s a lawsuit about this very thing and it’s a class action
I haven’t, thank you! Such boolsheet, just let me play solo Java aaaaaa
I remember the migration bullshit and the Bedrock/Java Wars.
I missed all of that… I just wanted to play Java recently and learned that my shit is goooone.
My condolences, that's a bummer.
bought it since several times over.
Same - Xbox 360 (£8 plus several texture packs), Java (£15), Google Play MCPE (£5) & Xbox One (£25), roughly in order. An old friend of mine got Java Edition for £5 on release in 2009
I hope before M$ took over. Also, you therefore now have multiple M$ accounts?
Idk about the commenter you responded to but maybe they bought it on different platforms. I've purchased it on 5 platforms on 7 occasions iirc. Now the Xbox 360 Edition, Xbox One Edition, "Minecraft" on Xbox (sucks, looks like an MCPE port) and Java Edition are connected to one M$ account, I don't play MCPE anymore but that used to be offline, no account besides Google/Apple.
I see your compliance with Microsoft and their anti-consumer capitalist tactics, and I raise you Freesm Launcher. Every version is free and, as is the reason for Freesm being borne of Prism Launcher, you are not required to connect your Microsoft account. You can still play the game you love while boycotting Microsoft for their takeover and enshittification. Remember, games used to be made to entertain people. Now they're made (by shady devs and evil publishers) to extort and farm people.
Minecraft was genuine. We can keep it that way.
Have a fucking upvote, you hit a home-run with that truthbomb.
That's quite the Overgeneralization you got there, but true for a sizable portion of games these days, especially anything AA-AAA. Play more indie games, there are plenty that are still made with love for entertainment.
1.3 was a very different game from the current version, tho.
It's in this in between that, nostalgia aside, has no retro appeal like Alpha to Beta 1.7.3, but has a half borked experience system that requires 50 levels for a full enchantment, enchants use all levels of the requirement and not the top 3, no anvils to repair or combine tools, and your only experience sources are mobs. It suffers from stupidly large and boring oceans, and the nether and the end are pretty barebones.
I started around that era of Minecraft but I'd never go back.
My first version was Xbox 360, TU1 or TU2. Wiki says it's equal to Java Beta 1.6.6 which checks out, as I didn't have stone bricks, the darkest wood was spruce, sheep dropped wool if you punched them and villagers all looked the same. The nostalgia is there but I wouldn't hang my hat there again.
My first Java edition was 1.7.2 and that'll always be a favourite of mine. Before the ocean monuments and pointless stone variants, before attack cooldowns and shielding.
There are several versions I prefer because the following update added something I didn't like, but I'd be sacrificing a feature I wanted from the future. Which is another pro for Java: modders have always been backporting the best update features. The spawn egg redesign from 1.21.5, for example.
Similar boat for me, although I only played Java.
Started on 1.5.2 and was on that for ages as it was a cracked Portacraft instance going around by USB at school.
1.7.2 was the first update I ever had, when I finally got home broadband, and it felt like the biggest update had just landed. 1.7.x is always a soft spot for me, it's nice going back in those versions occasionally, getting to full endgame with farms, with that classic enchantment glint, being excited over dark oak, acacia, stained glass, hardened clay.
Yass..
Gotta love school shenanigans haha! Sending people memes via Bluetooth, and finding/sharing these proxy websites that bypassed net security so everyone could access games during the day.
I think being back in those earlier versions reminds us of our lives then, full of naïveté, lacking responsibility and plenty of free time and comfort.
I'm more surprised that there are demo versions that old. I've never heard of that feature
you can play any release through the launcher
Isnt minecraft one of the easiest paid games to play for free?
You can play singleplayer and multiplayer on servers that allow that by:
•setting up a fabric project
•getting one of the many launchers that allow you to play the game without a paid account(i like prism launcher cracked)
•downloading the official prism launcher and doing this (i havent tested it so i am unsure if it actually works)