r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

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u/New_Salamander_4592 2d ago

gotta hand it to whatever lobotomite runs the dexerto account, they really put a positive twist on "these idiots racked up an insane ai bill from people playing their free demo"

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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 2d ago

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

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 2d ago

from what I can read in the wiki the first versions to be paid were the Alpha ones but it was really cheap and has slowly increased over time, so previous versions (classic, indev, infdev, survival test, multiplayer test) were free

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u/visualdescript 1d ago

Ah yeah cool, I can't remember whether I played Alpha or Beta first, I do vaguely remember paying a small amount for it.

Some fun times! Tools where you could just drop them and pick them up to restore full health. Absolutely bugged out mine carts. We had a server of about or 6 of us building random shit.

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 1d ago

the extremely bugged out mine carts were really fun to mess with and build rollercoasters!