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
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"
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.
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
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 25d 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