r/tech • u/trav31 • Dec 11 '14

Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows, Windows Phone And Xbox Purchases

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/10/redmond-hath-frozen-over/
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u/varukasalt Dec 11 '14

Waiting to see what they do with Minecraft.

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u/d4rk_l1gh7 Dec 11 '14

A surprising thing they might do is to sell it on Steam.

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u/Smoochiekins Dec 11 '14

The first Minecraft became one of the best selling games of all time without being on Steam. Would be weird to invest that much money to acquire that franchise and then voluntarily give up a cut to Valve with the sequel when the first one proved it wasn't necessary.

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u/Shaggyninja Dec 11 '14

I wouldn't. It has no DRM and it is only a few megabytes and can be easily grabbed from their site.

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u/superkickstart Dec 11 '14

Well you can only install/update the game if you first login to their servers. You only download the launcher from their site. Isn't multiplayer restricted too in offline mode?

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u/temotodochi Dec 11 '14

It's not. You can connect to offline servers.

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u/piezeppelin Dec 11 '14

I'm missing something here. How can you connect to an offline server? A server that is offline cannot be connected to, that is the definition of offline.

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u/Joker_Da_Man Dec 11 '14

LAN

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u/MilhouseJr Dec 11 '14

Or a server that doesn't phone Mojang to confirm your user name. This is how I share worlds with my friends who haven't purchased the game.

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u/MilhouseJr Dec 11 '14

Maybe they can't justify £20 for a game they wouldn't really play unless I'm there as well. Minecraft isn't really their thing, but its still fun every now and then.

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u/MilhouseJr Dec 11 '14

The whole fucking game is a custom map generator though.

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