I haven't played it, but I hear tell that MineCraft is basically the equivalent of crack on a stick. It's an awesome game that doesn't cost much, but hooks you deep in your core so you can never give it up. But maybe you're cheap, or, like me, you just haven't had time to check it out. Well, do it now because it's going to be free for the next few days it sounds like.
Something got messed up with the game's authentication servers thanks to a sudden increase in the game's popularity (I'm going to guess Penny Arcade had something to do with it) and instead of shutting the whole @#!*% thing down and not letting anyone play, MineCraft developer Notch has decided to instead let everyone play for free for the next few days or whenever he gets it all fixed up. That's pretty much a cup full of amazing.
Go here and play as I will be doing the second I finish The Last Station. You should watch that movie too, but play MineCraft first.
Mine, All Mine: MineCraft Free Weekend [Rock, Paper, Shotgun]
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10:17 PM on 09.18.2010 | 
If you haven't bought it yet, buy it.
I feel like I should have paid Notch more for this.
On the bright side.
Minecraft gets free publicity....
on the down side... MINECRAFT SERVERS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE.
Really liked the moon effect, too.
Oh yeah, I'm saving that one for later.
Mind you, that may have something to do with me not having any sleep for upwards of 36 hours now. This game just made me feel like I'm on crack.
What am I missing?
I love minecraft, I've been hooked for about a month, i got everyone at work playing too!
Minecraft Alpha tutorial video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs
Minecraft Jump Around video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv-FORwG2oo
Minecraft Seananners videos...episode 1 oh 7...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANgI2o_Jinc
Just plug in any old username and a blank password and you're good to go. (the password doesn't need to be blank, it's just not needed). He made it "Free" by removing the authentication.
This of course has had the unfortunate incident of making it so anyone can log in as anybody. (People have been logging in as admins in private servers and griefing the fuck out of them)
Just plug in any old username and a blank password and you're good to go. (the password doesn't need to be blank, it's just not needed). He made it "Free" by removing the authentication.
This of course has had the unfortunate incident of making it so anyone can log in as anybody. (People have been logging in as admins in private servers and griefing the fuck out of them)
But yeah, Neveras is right, you don't need a pre-existing account to login right now. Just download the client and put a name in.
This is going to be a loooong Sunday.
Cant play it - crashes 5 seconds into the game, literally.
Drivers updated, java updated, minecraft taken off the official website. Doesnt work at all.
Display driver is crashing and then java is stuck at 100% cpu usage (both cores). If thats how it goes i dont think its worth anything really. Cannot find any fix yet, even considering the popularity of this apparently "crack on a stick"... help ? Hardware is in order, no faults there...
Also, my netbook runs it... sort of... framerate is appaling...
Are you doing multiplayer or singleplayer?
Multiplayer has some crashing bugs, which I found using fog (F) helps. You can also go into options and change visibility options.
If it's singleplayer, then I really don't know what to do. I've never had that problem before.
Then I looked up a "guide" in the sense that it didn't tell me what to do, but it told me how to open the crafting window.
I installed the game around 7 last night, and I ended up going to bed around 3 am. Damn this game is addicting. I hollowed out the side of a mountain to make my underground mansion. It's always fun to work on adding a new wing to the mansion, when you break through a block and find out there was a zombie-infested cavern in your house.
Generally, building shit. If you want to re-create rapture (or just build an underwater city), you can do that. Floating castles? Automatic death traps? Shotguns? all can be made within Minecraft.
I tried Minecraft and tbh, I didn't see what is so great about it. It looks decent for a small title, I'll give it that but there's not much to do besides running around, bashing things and creating stuff.
No offence, I just don't see the appeal in this.
Yeah running around and bashing things is lame, kinda like what you do in Darksiders.
Do you really have to post this same shit in every gaming site on the world wide web? We get it, you don't like the game. It's your loss.