Minecraft creator says pirate the game if you are poor

[James]

Minecraft creator says pirate the game if you are poor

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[tpex]

Villages don't work yet though

[Graal]

Can't exactly say I'm happy that he's basically giving people permission to pirate it. It sounds like a nice gesture, but it's the same as going to a restaurant and being told you have to pay with your hard-earned money, then the owner tells the people next to you they don't have to pay because they're poor.

[czc]

I guess I should buy this to see what the fuss is about.

[shadowfox]

Can't exactly say I'm happy that he's basically giving people permission to pirate it. It sounds like a nice gesture, but it's the same as going to a restaurant and being told you have to pay with your hard-earned money, then the owner tells the people next to you they don't have to pay because they're poor.

I'm spending more time wondering where you set the bar - what decides if you're poor or not?

[Graal]

Indeed, it's not exactly as if Minecraft is ridiculously expensive either. It costs about half of what a new game costs these days, and on top of that you get 100s of hours of gameplay out of Minecraft.

While it probably doesn't make a difference anyway, as this guy was going to pirate regardless of whether Notch told him to or not, it's still the principle that counts.
If you don't have the money to purchase a product, be it digital or physical, you don't get the product. It might sound like I'm a dick, but why should Notch condone him pirating it simply because he's poor, but I have to buy it? We all work for what we earn, so being poor isn't a valid excuse to get freebies.

If I were Notch, I simply wouldn't have responded to the tweet.