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If you have been procrastinating getting minecraft, be warned that it will enter beta December 20th.

When the game enters beta, the price will double and any promises of free updates will vanish.

Go here to get it http://www.minecraft.net/




 

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yep, i like the fact that i help fund the development of the game along with the other 100s of thousands of gamers 

many people should do it 



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Gotted. Though I'm going to have to refrain from playing right now in the interest of having a life.



umm Notch said the updates will be free no matter when you bought the game but after the game is final he may consider payed DLC but they would have a lot of content



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zarx said:

umm Notch said the updates will be free no matter when you bought the game but after the game is final he may consider payed DLC but they would have a lot of content


from the minecraft development blog:

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"We will also change the license to remove the line that promises all future versions of the game for free. Please note that this change only affects people who buy the game after December 20, so if you got the game for during alpha, you will still get all future updates for free, despite this change. A promise is a promise.

Buying the game during beta will include all updates up until release, of course, and bug patches will be free."

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Read into what you will.  It is also an issue of terminology: what is DLC but a paid update to a game?




 

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Yeah, I've been telling people to jump on it ASAP as well. While the game is absolutely still going to be worthwhile after the jump to Beta, it just won't be the same. Gotta get in on it now.



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The only problem with this is that you have to buy it online. I don't have a Paypal account or a credit card, and my mother probably won't let me do any online transactions, so I'm kind of screwed with this.

Are they raising the cost of the game and updates due to developement costs? I was going to try to buy it someday, but I can't do it in two days time.