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I'll Just Leave This Here

Minecraft for Free All Weekend

by Susana Polo | 4:02 pm, September 19th, 2010

Do you have something that you have to get done?  Anything?  Then stop reading right now.  Go on.  Scroll down.  There’s a funny Cthulhu video down there.  Just leave this post alone.  Go on, get.

Okay.  If you’re still here, we are now absolved of all responsibility for telling you that Notch, the developer of Minecraft, the latest incredibly addictive game sweeping the internets, is offering the game free until he gets some new servers set up, probably on Monday.

Apparently the game’s popularity has kind of overloaded Notch’s humble servers, and so nobody can access the servers that allow purchase of the game, creating an account, or user verification.  Since the only parts of the game that still work are actually playing the game, he has made the best of it and called a free-to-play weekend.

So this is your chance to check out Minecraft without paying the usual $10.  And, if worst comes to worst, next week you’ll have to pay to keep playing, so that might nip your career/school ending habit in the bud.

(story via Rock, Paper, Shotgun, image via Penny Arcade.)

  • Robert Quigley

    WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THERE ARE RANDOM BOTTOMLESS PITS NEAR THE BEDROCK

    I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT THIS

  • Moveit56

    oh btw there are random bottomless pits near the bedrock

  • Blade louvel

    the bottomless pits is called the void. its the bottom of the map where if you fall in you die.
    i am getting a map editor to make a roller coaster in the void. lol

  • Robert

    The void….

  • Svenyman

    download minecraft beta 1.3_01 crack free

    Download link for .rar : http://uploading.com/files/6ecce36d/MinecraftSP.rar/
    Download link for .zip : http://uploading.com/files/b1mmfe24/MinecraftSP.zip/

    1. Download one of the files
    2. Unrar the file
    3. Run MinecraftSP.exe
    4. Play

    Easy as that

  • Maplestory100ex

    OMGZ thank u so much :D

  • Michael1234

    Dude, don’t give out Minecraft Beta… Notch needs to pay for bills. If you can’t afford a 20$ game, I doubt you can even play it on your computer. The game is definitely worth more than 20$. I’d have paid at least 50$ if I knew how good it was.
    I disapprove of your illegal downloading.

  • Elikoester

    can anyone tell me the updates for Minecraft so i can keep up with it. Thanks
    elikoester@yahoo.com

  • http://twitter.com/nitneuq6 quentin

    you are right, just pay people

  • person117

    you shuld play minecraft!you shuld play minecraft!i know its annoying dude.people even say for me to play minecraft EVEN on roblox,blockland,WOW,ect.)

  • jamietaylor

    do you get moltyplayer

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2OZQHMX5ZQVU7DAYQY5Z74SETI Kj

    I don’t think he cares unless it gets downloaded by too mutch people i mean theres thousands of paying players already so i don’t see why he can’t let people download it because as i type theres more and more poeple buying and playing MineCraft.

  • lovethevirgo

    Hahah! i Hit that Pit and it smelled realy bad!! NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!
     

  • illia

    i want to play minecraft now until sunday nextweek.because i always try to do i can’t play.please i need to play that game.

  • Joshua Wright

    Sorry but No :(

  • Alex98

    you must wrote: do you getmultiplayer

  • Jethro Land

    You slowly die in the void.

  • Arfster00

    WAZZUP MINECRAFTERs

  • Rhys7524

    no virous

  • johnny

    I LIKE CORN

  • Pwned12132

    LOL

  • CHEESE LUVA

    I LUV cHEEEESE


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