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You could always play Minecraft without an account. But you can't join most servers that enable authentication checks
Well yeah you could play without an account with a cracked launcher
When I was in fourth grade, I'd take the half a mile walk to the library almost daily which always made my parents happy because they assumed I was going to read, but instead I was hopping onto their computers, going to http://minecraft.net , and playing minecraft on IE :) Thanks for the nostalgia
The longevity of Minecraft blows my mind. I was always aware of its existence but never looked into it. Now my kid is getting into it. So many generations of kids! It's incredible really. That said, it has been a little sad digging into the current state of Java vs Bedrock, Bedrock iPad vs Bedrock Switch. The platform ubiquity is wonderful and the tradeoffs are what they are. But if folks were able to create a touch-…
The craziest part is that it executes on my iPhone SE 2020 in Safari. Textures work, shading works, pretty insane. I even managed to break a block.
The trickiest issue is input, since the "look around with your mouse" interaction maps very poorly on a mobile platform where "mousemove" implies touching / clicking.
We plan to eventually figure out a mobile-optimize UX, but we will most likely prioritize improving the performance first.
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Java Applets gave Java a bad name. Java was that thing that made web sites grind to a halt.
If it had come out of Google or Microsoft maybe even Apple, the JRE would have been integrated into the browser much more efficiently and it would have been no slower than Javascript But I don't remember Applets being particularly slow even back then, if you had a decent internet connection and they were written by a decent SDE
Huh, is Minecraft Java edition free now? I haven't played in a long time but I thought when you download the regular client you only get to play after signing in with an account that purchased the game, how is this thing just starting the game directly?
It's running minecraft 1.2.5 which was released in 2012, which mojang still makes available
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Nope, this is piracy. Which you may or may not consider a bad thing, but there will be lawyers in this person's future.
> Clicking the button below will download the client from mojang.com. By clicking it, you agree to the Minecraft EULA. It's literally just downloading the client from https://piston-data.mojang.com/v1/objects/4a2fac7504182a97dc... where mojang makes it publicly available. It's an older version so it's not linked on their website anymore, but you can find the same download link on the wiki: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Ja…
The fact that the file comes from Microsoft's server is one of those "technicalities" that you've heard about some people sometimes, but not usually, getting off on.
Microsoft will probably argue that the login prompt is a technological protection measure, which makes it blanket illegal to work around, due to the over-broad DMCA. That technicality is about as likely to work against you, as the "it's from their server so I didn't distribute it" technicality is to work for you...
Mandatory disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.