[QUOTE=Shrapnel :3;34194833]I don't understand why people like minecraft are stopping their services, the only people who use it are already against SOPA so you're basically preaching to the converted. It's a waste of time and an inconvenience, it just seems like a bit of a bandwagon stunt.[/QUOTE]
What about those that don't know a lick about SOPA/PIPA?
I love how people want all these games and popular internet message boards/forums to go down to protest SOPA, preaching to the choir won't do shit, sites like google, yahoo, wikipedia etc. make sense.
He should simply have the launcher replaced with a massive STOP SOPA thing, and a link to info about it.
To the people saying this is preaching to the choir, there are a [b]ton[/b] of people who play Minecraft who have never even heard of SOPA.
Minecraft isn't a little indie project enjoyed by the elite few Internet supernerds who happened to find it posted on their isolated forums of 300 members anymore... It's one of the most mainstream independantly-developed games currently running.
I think I'd be hard-pressed to find more than 3 or 4 people in my old high school's gaming club that play Minecraft (which is about 80% of them, or about 40 people), and know what SOPA is.
However, a "silent" takedown defeats the purpose of the protest. Like someone said, it'd be like any other day when you can't connect to minecraft.net.
I agree with Flubadoo; the launcher's news should have a massive notification about SOPA, its imminence to passing, its implications, information to protest it, and how Minecraft is currently down in protest of it.
Anyone who thinks everyone (or even almost everyone) who plays Minecraft knows about and hates SOPA lives in a very closed and self-centered world. Millions of people that play Minecraft are computer illiterate teenagers that heard about the game from their friends and have a very limited knowledge of the technological world outside of Facebook and Google. You act like Minecraft is some kind of underground indie game that circulates around internet forums and gaming communities and has yet to be discovered by the mainstream world. Well, it stopped being exclusive and underground over a year ago, and you'd be wrong to assume that its audience is superior or more informed than any commercial Xbox or Playstation game.
As long as the client displays some kind of anti-SOPA message or a link to SOPA information when users fail to connect, I think this will be a lot more effective than all of you are predicting.
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Wow, totally ninja'd
[QUOTE=Jacos;34194582]This is actually a good thing. Their government will have a crap load of twelve years old kids whining at them about not being able to post their Minecraft fan art on their forums. SOPA is sure to fail now![/QUOTE]
The forums are hosted by Curse,not on minecraft's servers
we're screwed,SOPA's gonna pass
Will the log in servers be going down too? Because I'm pretty sure that the majority of people who play Minecraft aren't in support of SOPA, and they did pay a ludicrous amount of money to play that game..
[quote]@notch
Markus Persson
Decided. We'll [b]silently[/b] take down minecraft.net and mojang.com on the 18th in protest of SOPA.[/quote]
Not so silent now is it you fucking idiot.
fuck I thought it said Microsoft
A vacation once again?
It's funny because as a protest Notch wanted to make Minecraft free to play for everyone on the 18th, which doesn't sound like a protest at all :v:
Notch logic
you know notch you could always just put that banner that says "SOPA SUCKS *click here to access site*" and get the same effect but not have a ton of people just thinking "oh FUCK minecraft.net is down AGAIN"
[QUOTE=Kopimi;34196222]you know notch you could always just put that banner that says "SOPA SUCKS *click here to access site*" and get the same effect but not have a ton of people just thinking "oh FUCK minecraft.net is down AGAIN"[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't be the same effect
Who even goes on minecraft.net?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34196967]Wouldn't be the same effect[/QUOTE]
yeah disabling minecraft's login server is going to really send a message to all the people of minecraftia
all that will happen is people will log in offline mode and say "ugh servers down AGAIN"
they wont even be given information about SOPA
[QUOTE=Jasun;34196988]Who even goes on minecraft.net?[/QUOTE]
-People who want to play the game through their browser.
-People who want to download the game.
-People who want to change their skin.
-People who want to read the most recent posts.
-People who want to get links to useful resources for learning how to play the game.
Just to name a few.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;34193950]Makes no fucking sense, most MC players are against SOPA.
This is to make people who don't know about SOPA or are for SOPA show what will happen once it passes. I know it's just delivering a message, but this is just like Reddit.[/QUOTE]
You seem very optimistic of the majority of minecrafts player-base intelligence.
And now everyone on facepunch supports SOPA. Notch, I love ya but nobody else does so stop trying to do anything good, just makes it worse.
Why do people think this is dumb? If anything, this will reach an audience that doesn't even know about SOPA ( I have several friends that play it that are ignorant on all things politics )
Too bad sopa can't be on vote forever. Because minecraft sucks dick.
Why are all of you so mad over this? Be glad some big names are going down for this.
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[QUOTE=supercopter;34197386]Too bad sopa can't be on vote forever. Because minecraft sucks dick.[/QUOTE]
Hey look I have an opinion, let me be a dick over it.
How come everyone on Facepunch seems to hate Minecraft?
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34197496]How come everyone on Facepunch seems to hate Minecraft?[/QUOTE]
The game had promise, then came the lack of updates, constant holidays, random rushed shit added that nobody wanted such as 'The End', every update breaks the game, a ton of core features are missing or need improving upon, and the game was rushed out to 'official release' - this being just a change in the version number.
[editline]13th January 2012[/editline]
Oh, and Notch's immature bullshit e-drama with the Yogscast not long ago.
Well that seals is, SOPA is going down now.
That is sarcasm by the way.
[QUOTE=sparky28000;34193941]So it will be like every other day when we can't connect to the servers.[/QUOTE]
Just like reddit
[QUOTE=Rocko's;34193950]Makes no fucking sense, most MC players are against SOPA.
This is to make people who don't know about SOPA or are for SOPA show what will happen once it passes. I know it's just delivering a message, but this is just like Reddit.[/QUOTE]
Minecraft and Reddit blacking out are to show larger and more important companies like Facebook and Google an example of what they should be doing. Imagine the following dialogue.
"Hey Facebook, can you do a blackout of your website to protest SOPA?"
"Sure we can. When's yours?"
"Oh, we don't want to do one. You should though."
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;34193944]Wow, Congressmen totally play Minecraft.[/QUOTE]
Autism
[editline]13th January 2012[/editline]
Sorry that was mean to Autistic people.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34197496]How come everyone on Facepunch seems to hate Minecraft?[/QUOTE]
Yogscast, these two British bronies who like minecraft became extremely famous by playing minecraft, they went to minecon and were total jerks, Notch tweeted, everyone sided with the soulless duo, the end. Also there was that "The Best Gamers" troll review that everyone thought was serious (just for the record: he did not use "programmer graphics").
My only wish is that it stays offline.
Do does this mean Facepunch is now pro-SOPA?
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