When you "buy" anything digital, you're not ever owning it.

It's unfortunate, and Microsoft is no saint, but Mojang's depreciation was inevitable.

inigyou 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Notch's terms of sale were that you get access to every version of Minecraft forever.

	▲	bigyabai 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Notch has said a lot of things that are rather evidently untrue in reality.

Zambyte 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The solution is consumer rights laws, not victim blaming.

Minecraft has an authoritative nameserver. Even regulation wouldn't decouple it from the owner.

	▲	Zambyte 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can't even download and play the game that I purchased in single player mode. The name server doesn't matter for that.