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I would hope there would be some kind of TARDIS for sale. | |
An excellent April First update :D | |
Bit too early in the day for April Fool's Day. Funny, nonetheless. | |
I think it needs more hats, it doesn't have enough hats! | |
Aw fiddlesticks. | |
Oh god that's brilliant, seriously I love this. | |
Dammit... I wanted that Greifer's disguise, but the raptor won't let me have it :( Damn raptors... Wait... raptors sounds like creepers... they both end in "rs"... HOLY SHIT! NOTCH IS ADDING RAPTORS TO THE GAME! If anyone takes this seriously, I will derisively laugh at you. | |
It's not April 1st, guys. Seriously. NOT April 1st. Guess I need to be skeptical of every article I read both on April 1st and the days adjacent to it. Excellent. | |
A $42 in-game item is "low priced"? When the game itself cost $10 or $15? EDIT: oh, just looked at the store. It's totally a fake. "Response from Support: $494" | |
lol sure thing, who needs other developers and their games? Mojang and Minecraft are all we'll ever need FOREVER! DIG my slaves! DIIIG and BUILDDD :p hmmm a new machinima idea perhaps? | |
I think the best part of this joke is how the website slows down to a crawl when you add more money to the cart, as a result of poor coding. They didn't mean to do that, but it's quite fitting. Oh also they released an update that adds almost nothing to the game and breaks every mod and multiplayer server. Yay? EDIT: Oh wait, the lack of content might just be part of the joke. I'm guessing the real patch with all the substantial content will come out tomorrow. | |
And horse armour. Though they do have creeper saddles, so I guess that's close enough. | |
You know the sad thing? FUCK YEAAAAAAH | |
epic. I tired to place my order of roughly 100 creeper saddles, but then the screen messed up and a raptor ate my cart. so I had to buy a response from Mojang, which said "it isnt a glitch, its a gameplay mechanic." | |
Also, isn't it the 31st? April Fool's is tomorrow. Unless my calendar is playing a joke on me. At the time of this posting(3:11 PM Eastern US), it would be about 9:11 PM Notch's time(Sweden, GMT +1). Give a take about an hour. | |
Wait... Does this mean Noooooooooooo! (On the other hand, it'd be pretty much the perfect definition of a one night stand...) | |
I fell for it... | |
BRB getting $10,000 | |
"Steve Co. Supply Crate Key," eh? This longtime Team Fortress 2 player doesn't POSSIBLY think the name's a reference to anything. Nope, not at all. I applaud them for a clever April Fool's announcement. | |
Wow,I just gained a lot of respect for Notch for this joke. P.S.Look out for veloceraptors | |
Damn countries that it's already the 1st. The April Fools Jokes are already coming out of the wood works. | |
I'll admit I did a doubletake when I saw Mojang there and not Valve. Store needs a creeper disguise. | |
Thank god it's april fools or I'd never forgive Notch. | |
My god... the colors... I can see everything. | |
It may be tomorrow where he lives..? | |
As soon as this is released I am getting some creeper saddles. That will show them to hiss at my house. I'll steer them towards other peoples' creations. Muahaha! | |
Is funny because they suffer from premature-prankulation! They launched april fools joke early. | |
I'd totally buy that Creeper Saddle. Why? I want to ride a living grenade right over a cliff... And right into somebody's very expensive mansion-house. I'm gonna herd so many Creepers into that mansion, that they might as well add in a giant white windowless van I can drive them around in. | |
Right because a Portal Gun is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO unoriginal.
Seems kinda pointless seeing as how you can already make your own Stargate in the game. | |
Creeper saddles? | |
It's not April 1st yet... :o | |
*fapfapfapfap* Don't tell me you haven't thought of it! | |
hahahahaha, that was excellent. | |
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Mojang Crushes Valve, Opens "The Minecraft Store"
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson, who recently defeated the mighty Valve to earn a place in the March Mayhem finals, has opened a brand new "Minecraft Store" with a big range of in-game items for sale.
When Mojang, the studio formed by Persson to handle all things Minecraft, was put up against the behemoth Nintendo in the opening round of March Mayhem, I didn't think it had much of a chance of making it out. I was wrong. Its odds against Namco Bandai in the second round struck me as pretty thin too. Wrong again. I was sure there was no possible way it could beat Epic in round three, and it did, so when it stomped Obsidian's guts out in round four I didn't even pretend to be surprised. But then it ran into Valve in the semis; great, all-powerful Valve, the home of Half-Life, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Portal. Surely, little Mojang's luck had finally run out.
Wrong.
Mojang is in the finals and Notch appears to be rather pleased about being there. So much so, in fact, that he's saying a special "thank you" to supporters with the new Minecraft Store, which is currently offering several new in-game items at special introductory prices. Steve Co. Supply Crate Keys are currently available for just $3 or in packs of 5 for $18, miner's helmets are $21 and Creeper saddles can be had for $42. Other items up for grabs include padlocks, enlargement pills and a response from the support department.
The concept of a "Company Store" selling low-priced virtual novelty items for use in a videogame is certainly a fresh one and I think Notch and the rest of the team at Mojang deserve credit for pioneering this new and unique approach to customer service. Innovations like this are precisely why I like to support indie developers over bloated corporate machines like Valve, who just don't have what it takes to come up with this kind of original idea. Good job, Notch!
The Minecraft Store hasn't been officially unveiled to the public but fans can get an early preview of what's on offer at minecraft.net/store/loot.asp. [Customers are asked to please avoid making single purchases of more than $10,000.]
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