r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PokeRestock • 2d ago

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u/laplongejr 2d ago

Meanwhile, the first builds of Minecraft were so popular that Notch got their paypal locked for suspicious activity with so much money coming in...   Not really the same signs of success ahah  

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 2d ago

the very first builds were free, I'm assuming that was for when he actually started selling the game (unless he was taking pre-orders/donations, I actually don't know about those), and Minecraft was way cheaper when it first started being sold than it is now! That really is a different sign of success lol

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u/visualdescript 1d ago

Yeah beta was totally free right? Or maybe I paid a small amount? Shit I can't remember

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u/laplongejr 1d ago

Alpha 5€, beta 10€, release 20€, then $20   As in, Mojang put the $ slightly higher originally, then microsoft raised the € price to 25 to "fix a price disparity"  

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u/The_One_Koi 1d ago

The price disparity: we want more money

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 1d ago

I don't get why you were donvoted, this is exactly the truth, they even made the worse bedrock edition even more expensive on consoles at 30€ despite Minecraft being one of the most sold games of all time and then even added fuckass microtransactions to it, greed is the one thing Microslop is good at.