I know what they meant, but "head of Minecraft" sounds funny to me. Like "my dad works at Nintendo" vibes lol
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Theres always Luanti. Its a lot easier to mange for computer lab installs than trying to juggle Minecraft education licenses.
has anyone made any free and open-source versions of minecraft?
It's not free or anything but I recommend vintage story.
Dont feel like mining? $.99 will get you a stack of whatever block you need to build a base home!
Don't feel like crafting? Buy blueprints to the most extravagent of builds! Only $19.99
NEW: Minecraft CREATIVE DLC. now you can build whatever you'd like with UNLIMITED materials, flying powers and NEVER DYING. for only 19,99$. WHAT A STEAL
The second one will definitely happen. People already paying builders for nice buildings, and I bet Micro$oft wants in on this market
Interesting to see how this pans out.
Minecraft really isn't a game where microtransactions work, at least on the ethical stuff. It's a game about creativity and sharing, which means a lot of people won't be bothered with mtx.
The elephant in the room is that there's a giant ecosystem of paid server nonsense, most of which is basically pay-to-win and gambling for school kids, which Microsoft and Mojang somehow approve. They just think it's unfair they don't get a cut, hence the push for Bedrock marketplace and servers. Thing is, if Microsoft really starts seriously sticking their fingers into that pie, I really hope the regulators start waking up.
My man, have you seen the bedrock edition?
If Roblox gets to why can't we?
-Microsoft
Minecraft Java edition feels like the "community" version of the game while bedrock seems like the awful micro transaction playground for Microsoft.
Minecraft Java Edition is Minecraft and Minecraft "Bedrock Edition" is an awful Microsoft rip-off because Microsoft is bad at everything and wholly hostile to consumers and other businesses and run by ants.
They're never gonna put that stuff into Java, that's the fully Mojang version of the game. And even then it'll be as easy as ever to mod anything they try adding out.
Unfortunately, not if it's launcher level
We have third party launchers already? Does that solve da issue
Prism Launcher is amazing btw
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I haven't seen the official Minecraft launcher in a LONG time. Not sure what you trying to imply here.
Minecraft has been dead for a while now. There's nothing really there apart from nostalgia and some mods.
For anyone looking for a spiritual successor to pre-Microsoft Minecraft, there's Vintage Story.
If you absolutely need to play Minecraft, just pirate it. Microsoft doesn't deserve a single cent.
What a fantastic awareness campaign for Luanti!
Luanti is actually pretty great so far. Some of it is jank in the way that you can tell its made by people who make software not necessarily artists but its still a good time. A lot of effort has gone into it over the years and I appreciate its existence
Holy crap the map is 62,000 x 62,000 x 62,000?!?
Alright I'm gonna have to give this a try, I always felt the maps in Minecraft weren't nearly deep enough.
Highly recommend Vintage Story to those who love the survival aspect of Minecraft. In my opinion, it also offers a lot more creative freedom but you really have to work for it.
Been playing VS since before it had seasons or food decay. It's incredible to see how far it's come.
I just started back in November. It's easily become one of if not my all-time favorite game to play. It's absolutely solid and I forget it's still in early access.
Vintage Story is a very different, much more hardcore beast compared to Minecraft.
Yeah, it's awesome. Survival as it should have been.
Bedrock has been doing shitty monetisation for ages. Play Java, enjoy.
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What an amazing time to have started playing Vintage Story
Another little reminder:
- if you play games, do not buy microtransaction items or, if possible, games that try to sell them.
- If you are a parent, do not let your kids buy microtransaction items or games that try to sell them.
- If you know a parent who is not a gamer, share these concepts with them. They won't have these sorts of things piped into their bubble under any normal circumstances.
My kids, 10 and 14, are very anti corporate greed and I couldn’t be more proud. They also complain when they aren’t on the local WiFi if they are playing mobile games because the ads don’t get blocked. A couple years ago my youngest asked me to turn ads on so he could hatch monsters or something faster, I bypassed his device and a couple months later he was complaining that the game is a time sink full of ads and he doesn’t want to play it anymore and wants ad blocking re-enabled.
They aren’t perfect and I have never tried to preach to them too much. Not really sure where I was going with this but your post reminded me how much I appreciate that my boys actively avoid and protest against playing games with ads and micro transactions at such a young age and I felt like sharing with someone.
FWIW, simply living with an adblocker for a while will inoculate you to a lot of the most predatory BS. My wife had a similar experience. At first she was annoyed by the dual pi-holes I set up, because they broke her sponsored Google search links. Then she learned to skip those first few links and got used to having ads blocked. We recently moved, and I hadn’t had time to set them back up. I have simply been using the new ISP’s modem/router.
Last week, she basically begged me to find some time to set the network stuff back up, because she hated seeing ads now. She got used to the pi-holes, and then they were suddenly gone. She was like “yeah a lot of my favorite sites are basically unusable now. I don’t know how the hell I ever functioned before you set those things up…” What sent her over the edge was when she noticed an ad on our TV’s sleep screen. Not even in the show we were watching. Just on the sleep screen, because the show had been paused for like 15-20 minutes. That one ad was the straw that broke the camel’s back, because even when the device was idle it was still trying to show her ads.
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Bedrock Minecraft has always been the micro transaction version of Minecraft.
If you're playing Bedrock and are now worried about Microtransactions, that's on you.
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They just removed obfuscation from Java Edition. If they even try to do a single stupid move - like with chat reporting a few years ago - it will be simply modded out of the game.
The only thing that they might be able to do is increase the price for buying the game, mess with the accounts or illegally change their EULA - without notifying anyone - again.
Bugrock Edition on the other hand is already a dumpster fire for years, so nobody really cares about that one in the first place...
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