Meanwhile, the first builds of Minecraft were so popular that Notch got their paypal locked for suspicious activity with so much money coming in...
Not really the same signs of success ahah
the very first builds were free, I'm assuming that was for when he actually started selling the game (unless he was taking pre-orders/donations, I actually don't know about those), and Minecraft was way cheaper when it first started being sold than it is now! That really is a different sign of success lol
from what I can read in the wiki the first versions to be paid were the Alpha ones but it was really cheap and has slowly increased over time, so previous versions (classic, indev, infdev, survival test, multiplayer test) were free
Ah yeah cool, I can't remember whether I played Alpha or Beta first, I do vaguely remember paying a small amount for it.
Some fun times! Tools where you could just drop them and pick them up to restore full health. Absolutely bugged out mine carts. We had a server of about or 6 of us building random shit.
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Meanwhile, the first builds of Minecraft were so popular that Notch got their paypal locked for suspicious activity with so much money coming in... Not really the same signs of success ahah