More than 400 English schools receive bomb threats over Minecraft server drama
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43457548
PC Gamer: https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-server-drama-leads-to-a-wave-of-bomb-threats-at-uk-schools
Incredible. Many of these schools did go ahead with evacuation too.
just punch the TNT before it goes off you idiots
I can already picture that Steve deathsound if they manage to find him.
you are both suspended
Fucking creepers.
The US firm's 17-year-old CEO told the BBC he suspected the hoax emails had been sent by a disgruntled Minecraft player in a bid to damage VeltPvP's reputation.
I'm sorry but I can't read that without laughing my ass off. The word's "firm" and "CEO" shouldn't be used for some Minecraft server ran by a 17 year old.
If you told me this was a news article I would be reading in the future back when when this game was still in alpha, I wouldn't believe you.
Carson Kallen, the 17-year-old CEO of the firm, told the BBC he had a team of 50 people managing 100,000 users a day.
Laugh it up, but that dude's probably making more money than you and me and a lot of other FP'ers combined.
That's fucking stupid.
I don't want to live in this world anymore.
That's how people get rich dude. 400 years ago it was about fucking tulips, now it's about videogames.
Why?
He did something you didn't so he's making money that you aren't, that seems fair to me.
it's only stupid when it's not you doing it, am i right
Oh I'm not insulting the kid himself, he's confronting the entire situation very professionally and is doing what he loves while making money doing it. All power to him. I just find that a 17-year-old can have a fully recognized LLC and be called a CEO in a news article by the BBC in 2018 absolutely hilarious.
i can see why Notch wanted to distance himself from this game
I'm sure it was because of a future bomb threat by a random unstable person
missing the point
i mean it was because of how terrible the community has become, that someone would actually send bomb threats to schools over some guy's servers
I think a minor can do pretty much anything an adult can that won't cause physical harm with a guardian's permission.
Yep, notch totally didn't leave mojang and minecraft since he doesn't like making huge projects, nope, it since some people in a community of the 2nd most sold game in history, are terrible people.
Minecraft is serious shit. I've had relationships end over it.
It might be, but holy shit some of these minecraft servers make bank. I was getting 40-50 a week from running a small server. They've got a huge store and have ~200 players during the lowest playercount time of day. he's probably making 500+ a month easily from this
This is about as edgy as edgy gets. They took it one step further than the typical "i bought a botnet time for baby's first ddos"' that minecraft servers experience. jeez
oh yeah, sorry, i almost forgot that i am on facepunch where people don't have sense of humour
Far more than 500. At it's peak, the servers I used to run brought in ~300 a month and this was just six TF2 servers.
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