carnival73: I clicked on buy for 20 euros which is like 27 dollars to NZ but then it changed to 27 USD which is like 33 bucks for us here in Zealand. Found an old promo for 20% off - wasn't sure if it was expired but there's no place during checkout to add a voucher code any way.

There's no place to get help on Facebook because you can not start a new topic. I really don't want to have to sign up to Twitter again. Couldn't be arsed to make a second separate account for Minecraft.net's forums.

There's no tech support or sales support email just a run around data base.

I take it this is one of those games you buy when your weekly wages are so high you don't really care if the game works or not and how much you have to spend - "$30 plus is an easily affordable gamble..."

Bigs: Slight thread hijack but if you want zombies and crafting and (maybe mining.. I think the jury is still out on that one) you could always check out 7 Days to Die

timppu: I bought two Minecrafts as gifts to two relative kids over a year ago. They love it and still play the games often, so I feel it was a money well spent.

I have two main complaints:

1. I had quite a lot of difficulties with the payment, so for a long time I was unable to buy at least the second copy. One of the payment screens was totally bugged out on all browsers I tried it, and Mojang pages told to contact Skrill support, which handled the payment. Skrill said there's nothing wrong at their end and it is the Mojang page which is bugged. And I don't think there was any option to contact Mojang support.

In the end I figured out with trial and error how to proceed (I had to put my credit card details _a second time_ to certain boxes on the screen where there was no description for the boxes), and the payment was successful.

And overall the whole payment process was quite complicated, I think I had to have a Skrill/Moneybookers account on top of Mojang account, etc.

2. I think the Mojang pages said the game is DRM-free. In my opinion that was a lie, you still have to authenticate the game once online when you install it, as long as I could tell (or then I misunderstood something). But after that you apparently could play it offline permanently.

So it had the most lightest known version of DRM known to mankind, one-time installation authentication. But DRM nonetheless. Which in this case I could live with I guess (as the kids wanted to play it online together anyway), but they still shouldn't have advertised it as DRM-free.

(I didn't try it, but I presume you couldn't just run the installer on a new PC and start playing offline, without connecting first to Mojang pages, at least to create an account first for the game?)

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-As it is now they accept Paypal (which I used)

-It's pretty DRM heavy considering that not only do you have to authenticate but first time running is when you pull down the actual game during authentication and I'm pretty sure it's scattered to the point that you can't back it up (Like an EA Origin game).

It's still a lot of fun and the neighor's child who we watch really enjoys it.
My partner's little nephew loves the game too so it's something to have when he comes to visit.

I am wondering, now - about MODs....what's the best texture MOD? And are there any other MODs that add a lot more to the game?

timppu: (I didn't try it, but I presume you couldn't just run the installer on a new PC and start playing offline, without connecting first to Mojang pages, at least to create an account first for the game?)

carnival73: -It's pretty DRM heavy considering that not only do you have to authenticate but first time running is when you pull down the actual game during authentication and I'm pretty sure it's scattered to the point that you can't back it up (Like an EA Origin game).