Wouldn’t you know it, hot on the heels of our last Free Games What Need Playing and its nod to Minecraft in all its glory (and technical lack of free-ness) comes this little news flash: Right now, you can play the full version of Minecraft for free. No money is required, no registering is needed. You just visit the website and download the launcher.
Of course, this won’t be permanent. While Notch the Great and Powerful acknowledges he isn’t entirely sure how long it will take him to fix everything, he also states that things will eventually get back to normal. Meaning if you want to play the full version you’ll have to pay what amounts to a large Value Meal. Or any meal at Arby’s. Assuming you can ever find an Arby’s.
Click the button to do whatever it is you kids do to jumps these days and read his official statement.
Minecraft got way too popular for this humble server. I’ve had to disable everything fancy to even get it to run. It went down on Saturday, September 18.
It will probably go back to normal on Monday, September 20.If your launcher is giving you download errors, please update the launcher by downloading the latest version from this page.
The following things do not work at the moment:
- Registering an account
- Purchasing the game
- User verification for online servers
- Sounds and music for new players
The following does work:
- Actually playing the game
- Player skins
Until this all gets sorted out, I’m officially calling a “free-to-play weekend”, or however long this will take to fix. You will need to have a paid account to play it later on when this gets fixed though.
If you want to keep track of the latest developments, please follow my blog. I also post stuff on my twitter, but there’s a lot of nonsense there as well./ Notch
[Via: Minecraft]
