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I hate always online licensing DRM schemes cursed-woog

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[โ€“] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 months ago

Piracy is completely justified ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ

[โ€“] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I bought Minecraft back when they made you make a Mojang account to download it - some years later I wanted to download it again but I didn't have my Mojang details, and Microsoft was all "uhh you should have connected your Mojang account to you Microsoft account idiot" like bruv I just want to make a dirt house, get bored, and then never play this again for ten more years.

Anyway I tried Minetest and it was pretty good.

[โ€“] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

I just want to make a dirt house, get bored, and then never play this again for ten more years.

so true

[โ€“] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When did this get implemented? I'm guessing with the new non-Java version of the game?

[โ€“] TheronGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This was in Microsoft's Minecraft launcher, so probably whenever that got introduced. I've only got the Java version though.

[โ€“] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you own Java Edition, you also own Bedrock Edition and vise versa.

[โ€“] TheronGuard@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

I've never used it though shrug-outta-hecks

[โ€“] raven@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that true? I thought if you had bought java before a certain point you automatically got bedrock when it launched, but it's still just one license?

[โ€“] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep! If you owned either one before June 7th 2022, you got the other one automatically given to you. And if you didn't own either of them before that date and you buy from the official website you get both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java---bedrock-edition-pc-out-june-7

[โ€“] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Its way easier to pirate the bedrock version of the game compared to the java version

[โ€“] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

I haven't played Minecraft since they got bought out by Microsoft. So I have no idea what's happening with it these days. I remember my friend recommended the game to me and I missed out on paying $5 for the Alpha version by like a week and got the Beta version for $10, I think (or maybe it was 10 and 15).

[โ€“] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

i miss the old minecraft.net :(

there was one multiplayer server on the java applet version that i used to play all the time; it was some sort of team based pvp

[โ€“] oregoncom@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

Get minetest. Once they start migrating all the mods over it's joever for minecraft.

[โ€“] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

bit idea: DDoS the licensing servers to piss everyone off

[โ€“] laine@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago