What if Minecraft was free?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Minecraft is a worldwide phenomenon. It's the best-selling game of all time. But what if it was free? How much would that benefit Mojang, Microsoft, and the community? And how do we know they're not already planning it for the future?
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2:19 Is Minecraft dying?
3:54 Q1: Wouldn't Mojang/Microsoft go broke?
5:54 Q2: What about the hackers?
6:35 Q3: Is Minecraft fairly priced?
7:00 The Free to Play model explained
8:39 The Honest Truth
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I wanna talk about TLauncher since all ye pirates out there keep bringing it up
TLauncher is against the law in most countries due to copyright and piracy law. It’s just that no one really enforces internet piracy, at least in most Western countries. I’m not going to scold you guys for piracy because, let’s be honest, everyone’s pirating stuff these days on the internet.
What I do think is concerning, though, is the number of sketchy “free Minecraft” versions there are on the internet. Just imagine you’re a toddler looking up “free Minecraft” on the internet (I’m 100% POSITIVE that was some of you in the past). There are a lot of viruses out there that surface when kids look up those kinds of things, and little kids aren’t going to know the difference between their free Minecraft and something that could harm them or their device.
I genuinely think that there’s an argument to be made for Free-To-Play Minecraft in making the internet a lot more kid-friendly. It would eliminate the need for TLauncher, as well as super sketchy and malicious fakes that are all over the internet, which would really be in Mojang and Microsoft’s best interest.
my first computer got at least 12 viruses cause i wanted octodad for free 😃 (i was 7-8)
they should make single player free and make multiplayer not free so any1 could enjoy it, and bigger community should mean that more ppl will buy it
too long nerd
@@potato820 learn how to read nerd
@@OmicronGaming s h u t
making minecraft java free wouldnt be the worst diea, but with the reporting systems coming out soon, if it was free then so many more little kids would join, making the system overused and abused. the flat 30 dollars is fine. I feel like I have gotten more than 30 dollars out of the game.
yeah there is already too many little kids that make multiplayer less fun by being noobs id rather there isnt more lol
The chat report system doesn't work Lmao
can you imagine the number of alt accounts people would have though. People won’t care about being banned if they can just switch to the next account. Maybe if they were IP banned, that would be different and more harsh.
@@ShudderyX24 hopefully
30 dollars for some people is like nothing, but for others its like a dream of having, maybe they should decrease the price so more people would buy the game
Fun fact: Minecraft was actually free for android in Brazil for 2 hours
Unforgotten day
Are you Brazilian?
And It Was Called Minecraft Trial And It Seems Like It's Available On Select Countrys Not Just Brazil And It's Also Available On Xbox And I Guess Even PS4
I am in your mailbox rn
@@fallkey4822 i don’t have one
if cosmetics were added to minecraft we would most likely lose the freedom to make our own skins.... something that i do want to keep.
You'd probably get something similar to Pixel Gun 3D (at least the way I remember it):
Buy customizable skin templates. You can make them as intricate as you want, but it will cost you in-game or real-life currency to get a new one.
Or they could make it so that cosmetics have a more depth than the three layers currently available, bedrock has both a individually purchased skins, a character creator with paid cosmetics and the ability to add custom skins on platforms where it's possible to get the file in the first place (aka not console)
That doesn't mean that I want Minecraft to go free
(Also I would like to metion that on Bedrock everything that could be gotten from the marketplace could also be gotten for free (not the exact same but texture packs, behavior packs and maps), it's just that the marketplace is in-game)
We already lost it. Custom skins don't work on Android cuz they won't update the requesting api and on all platforms custom skins don't "roam to other devices" for SaFeTy PuRpOsEs!!!1!1 (obvious lie)
I just hope the same thing doesn't happen to Java edition
I agree with most points in ur vid. I feel that Bedrock is near the point of it should be free to play but Java has a pay wall. Java has much more freedom in what it has to offer with minimal pay for almost any community project, whereas bedrock has a lot more paid content and doesn’t necessarily need the upfront pay. The two feel like very different experiences
why double down on how bad bedrock is currently by making it free instead of making it deserving of its price????????
Tbf Noone in the bedrock community every buys anything from the marketplace. You can download the exact same texture pack, maps, mods etc they offer at the marketplace for free in the internet
You get bedrock for free when buying java edition and vice versa.
Interesting idea, but how would that bring new players into java edition? If a person wanting to try minecraft sees that one version is free and another is 30 dollars yet they share a pretty similar experience, which one do you think they are going to go with? (Especially cause the marketplace has no value for bedrock cause you can get most of that stuff for free). If they were to do this they would have to find a way to make java edition more appealing to justify the difference in pay walls.
What I am saying is to the average Andy wanting to try Minecraft for the first time, they aren't going to know the subtle differences between the versions, and how one *feels* over the other. They are just going to see a price tag on one of the versions for what seems like no reason. If they were to do this java would need some sort of obvious benefit over bedrock
This was a really well put together video. Responding to people's opinions in the poll you did prior to this video was a nice touch!
I agree on this for Bedrock edition, but I feel like Java won't feel the same if this happens
yes cuz all those fake mc VIRUSES are bedrock cuz they are made for little kids that play on phone aka bedrock edition
but they would only really be able to make money off of console players, why would a mobile/pc player buy anything when they could download something better online. unless they remove the ability to do that which nobody wants
Yep like the feeling of like look we playing minecraft w a nice ( olderthan 15yr old man people) that know how to be nice and stuff than all the cry babys w a new pc of age 7 crying about hackers and if they lose just be a di-
@@hericide1 Convenience. People are f-cking lazy and would rather just buy it with a few clicks instead of searching for it.
Even if we don't want to admit it, mobile is the most profitable of all gaming industries by a big margin.
nope.
Darn Omicron your class is very obedient.. *ONLY A SMALL PERC-*
Would there really be an increase in the community size? Minecraft already has more downloads than any of the other games you mentioned, despite costing money, and I find it hard to believe that there's somehow still a massive market for the game out there that's been dissuaded by the price.
i am still waiting for minecraft to be free tho
@@pazerr it would be insanely detrimental to every server though, and the game would just become like roblox which is dominated by 7 year olds, something nobody wants
It doesn’t have more downloads then Fortnite and roblox it has 230 million downloads, which is less than the other 2.
Him: "What if minecraft was free?"
Everyone: TLauncher
Thats called a cracked account which is Also illegal to use
@@havnmartin still free
But see, that’s the entire point of this video. Tlauncher wouldn’t need to exist, because mojang would already offer their game for free. Wouldn’t that be nice to have?
@@QWErwq889 still illegal
@@OmicronGaming no, because you can flex your premium account on friends while playing blocksmc
this was an amazingly well done video, earned a sub :)
Literally every single one of my friends and I could finally play together
are they flat
you cannot afford $30?
you already can! (since you have none.)
@@DrLifeGamer bruh 30$ is expensive as fuck in certain parts of the world
but then u gotta buy a minecraft server to play on a survival world..
I think you make some good arguments here and overall I agree with you but I think the idea that there wouldn't be an increase in hackers is completely wrong. If there are a certain number of normal gamers and then a certain minority of them that are willing to cheat, an increase in player count will increase those numbers equally, like you say. However, in addition to that it will make it less of a risk for the hackers as an account is suddenly free so it makes it easier for the hackers even if the ratio of hackers to normal players doesn't change. Additionally because hacking is less risky, this will just remove one of the reasons most people don't cheat: they don't want to risk losing their account. Unless they like really love the exact username they have then it doesn't really matter. Great video though as per usual and I think it's cool of you to facilitate this kind of discussion.
even if they loved their username they would just create alt accs for hacking
Minecraft Greed edition: Nether DLC, End DLC, mob DLC, block DLC, movement DLC.
"If Bethesda Bought Minecraft"
I play Bedrock Edition a lot with my friends (since we are cross-platform), and I think that it would be a good idea for bedrock to become free since it would give people more oppurtunities to play with their friends. Also bedrock already has a lot of paid cosmetics which you can buy. So the developers would still be making money in the end.
Omicron: I am not very proud for being an active player in overwatch.
Ppl who play lol and rocket league: AMATEUR
we’re all no-lifes
@@OmicronGaming and we all regret some of our life choices
Damn omicron really keepin up with the alt shop migration prices
I would definitely be worried about currently free community resources becoming Mojang run, have to pay things like mods and texture packs. Also, regarding the hacking point, unless there were better anti cheats, either community made how it is or Mojang side like Valorant, I think hackers would go through the roof because the only consequence to getting banned is a little bit of time to get a new account. Also, in regards to kids, I’ve seen a lot of my friends’s siblings either being really horrible or blow a bunch of money if their parents are wealthy enough, and I feel like those fornite kids were a big reason the game died, at least comparatively to where it was in the late 2010s
The one thing against making Minecraft f2p is also that most of the Content is made by the community on Servers, which Microsoft can't controll anymore at this point.
So if they come with new stuff that costs the community would mostly just stay at the f2p stuff. You can see it as Microsoft tried to get the Java people to Bedrock, which didn't work as the content costs partially and on Java there is way more free stuff.
You could compare it with the real world:
One country is very centralised and everything in the country is owned by the state there. These are mostly the f2p games.
Then there is a country that isn't centralized at all and the buisneses are owner by all sorts of people. How would you try to controll the market? This would be Minecraft.
This is probably one of the best vids i have seen
I've been seeing you on a lot of OW videos for the past like 2-3 years and I've always wondered what rank you were and.... WOW you are actually very good at it. Also OW2 being free will hopefully bring back the playerbase and more new players than ever! (I know this video is about mc but atleast mc's playerbase isnt in shambles rn)
I'm not too much of an active Overwatch member but I wouldn't say the community is that bad. I'd say it's hanging on, like a mouse considering whether or not to take the cheese on the trap. One move and it's a goner.
when rocket league went free to play it brought in a ton of players so yeah OW going f2p is going to bring a lot of players
Dude I was like wth is OW did they get hurt or smth then realized it was over watch
Do you remember Minecraft Lite? ah the good ol days
fr ?
i dont :L
@@benmc7 basically free mc
@@benmc7 Minecraft PE from 2012 but it didn’t save
@@pocketlite5012 oh~~~
Love the tiny tower music ❤️
3:44 The movie Cars is the only thing that i will attached to, from the childhood
I agree with the comment saying there should be a free 'limited' version of the game (maybe one of the older versions) so everyone can play with their friends.
Already exists. 1.2.5 and older don’t have the demo so you can join offline mode servers.
1.8 being free is minecraft being free
I personally have played almost all Minecraft versions from mobile to java and I personally hate the marketplace and I wish that Minecraft would make an off game store for bedrock where you could download a mod off-site a bit like jazz and the makers of the mods would get payed for how many downloads they get. I think Minecraft going free to play would be good for the new player base but the older players who have played without the market place also in game names wouldn’t be as “interesting” the hype around even slightly rare names even if you have a one word name it can be considered rare. So tldr good option for new players and kids but the older and more experienced players would probably not enjoy.
Btw you can create bedrock mods for free and you could distribute them but I think just not many people do it though
@@agarplaysgameryt1665 yes true, because most creators want to make some money for their work, which is fine if it's good stuff
But they are no where near as accessible and you can’t really use multiple at once as they use .json files
@@agarplaysgameryt1665 more like addons. You can't really modify anything outside of m$s bounds.
what about CurseForge?
they could also add the shop for emotes and stuff for java edition since people with clients who already use emotes have paid for those meaning they can play on more servers with the same or similar emotes on different game versions
No thank you. if java would ever get emotes or any micro transactions, I would disable them with a mod.
this was a good video, was genuinely interesting
if minecraft was free it would be like roblox where everyone just hacks on alts lmao
Agree
I think that bedrock should be free and that the marketplace should be more expensive (like you said)
that was very nice vid omicron
The Club example was great! But I think paying for the game once and enjoying every mod and resource packs for free is better..
I completely agree, and in addition to your arguments, i think that everyone with a literal school laptop being able to join stuff like hypixel isn't good, it would take away all of my fun bc of people with a trackpad and 5fps.
I rarely press the like button on youtube videos, but this is just incredible 👏
If Minecraft becomes free. I think they should do that u can chose betwen getting ur money back and getting somethink like a cape or idk. BTW nice video love it :)
No that is such a dumb idea.
Great video!
the hacking problem would get 10 times worse if minecraft have gone free, right now after migration it's hard to find a place where you can buy alts and if you wanna cheat you need to get a decent vpn (like 15$), get alts where each one is $1-$1.5 and a client which usually costs about $20. If minecraft was free everyone would start bhopping and just change the account everytime they get banned, for example look at cracked servers, there are so many hackers it's hard to enjoy the game.
Probably gone to Roblox path of hackers IMO
eh cracked servers don't have that many hackers nowadays (thanks to advancement in anticheats, anyways), you do hop into one sometimes but it isn't as often though I do agree that it'll get worse I don't think it would be necessarily a complete game-breaking amount.
What I think would definitely get worse is the experience for hardcore players, since anti-hacking checks would get stricter and there'd be a lot of false-possitives which is really bad (I experience this right now on some servers, it'd be unplayable if it became even less tolerant)
@@javierflores09 still with hypixel's anticheat people would autoblock and sometimes even bhop
I think a good solution to the "mojang will go bankrupt" problem, instead of making a ingame currency like the bedrock edition, I think mojang should be a bigger part of the multiplayer community, which is obviously the better and more interesting and probably bigger community because WE PLAY MINECRAFT AND WE DEFINITELY HAVA FRIENDS!!!L:J!KLJKL
but in all seriousness, I think they should be more involved with the multiplayer community, perhaps the the point were they start hosting servers. They shoulnt be the only server hosters since theres no way they can support every single existing server. but big servers with a international player base that have a large/consistent revenue stream such as (obviously) hypixel could in a way partner with mojang. this would help the hacker situation alot, first ov all, and if this helps the hypixel player base to grow (since there would be less lag issues and mojang would have a closer look and better understanding of wha the main player base actually wants), then mojang could ask for a fraction of the revenue that hypixel makes. weve already seen form the games u listed that cosmetics generate alot of money.
thats just one idea but the main point is that there are many ways that mojang could support the multiplayer playerbase.
yeah imagine mojang official servers with minigames in java or bedrock
I love overwatch and minecraft. Nice video
1:33 I had that mouse and keyboard but the liquid in the mouse leaked so the frog just rattles around inside it.
edit: subscribed
So glad their giving java if you have bedrock and vice versa, I can finally bully people on phones
Bruh💀
1:31
what kind of potato pc breaks itself down trying to run touhou 12? 💀
3:00 lol the song is called hopes and dreams
What they could do is have it so you are limited to just survival mode or something like that if they won’t go with your method.
I am SO glad my dad did not allow me to buy Minecoins, as i grew older, I realized how bad they are.
EDIT: I just realized, ads are another way free to play games get money...
Maybe bedrock should be free bc of micro transactions but Java should stay non free
GG nice video!
This video made me think back to my first time playing Minecraft. It was free on pocket edition and it was what got me into it. Enough to buy it for 3ds, Xbox, and PC. Thats whats so great about this game. It never stops giving.
same
i got it in 2015 on my ipad lol
Minecraft is a sandbox, where you can do whatever you want. If it was free to play and things like skins would cost money, Minecraft would not be a sandbox anymore. Minecraft would not be Minecraft.
Something you have over looked are the servers themselves for example hypixel has times were the server is so laggy people accidentally dupe now imagine that with even more people on the server if it became free to play I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of kids who saw technoblade (R.I.P.) farming potato’s on skyblock just all came into the server putting strain on the server
Server strain and lag is entirely up to the servers themselves though, I don’t really think “there’d be TOO many players” is a solid enough argument to prove why free to play would hurt the Minecraft experience
@@OmicronGaming Good point, it will only be for a brief moment if any at all. As long as it's announced ahead of time so servers can adjust.
Very well done video.
This video is gonna blow up mark my words!
The main problem with Free2Play MC is that players who paid for the game would now be forced to put up with a game that (8:30) pressures them into spending more. Also, it will be hard to crack down on P2W servers if the base game is even slightly P2W.
Microsoft could offer rewards and legacy things for people who paid for the game
If Java becomes free to play, I feel like it could just cause servers to become overpopulated and lag way more than they are already. Unlike Roblox, the servers are provided by the people who own the “servers” and not the creators of the game.
If the game was free to play, probably many servers would whitelist and switch to pay to play 😁
Good video! :)
BTW @OmicronGaming in bedrock u can download skins from the Web for free same goes for maps and texture packs the market place is just a money hungry community although there are free things there and servers use the marketplace for game passes ranks etc.
If minecraft was free to play then what will happen to the people who paid for minecraft? Do they just lose $30?
rewards for those who payed earlier
look at the article in 1:22
You’re given a cape that says “dumbass”
I mean, Fall Guys was $20, and look at what they just did lol
did you forget your password
From listening to the current prices of the game ($7 on mobile and $30 on pc) I am glad I got Minecraft on my IPad for only $4 and it on my pc for $17, and I thought that was a lot.
I would have said yes a year ago considering I didnt have it and wanted it. But now after playing and with how toxic some members in the community are I would hate for it to be free
If minecraft was free if you get banned you can create an alt and hacker would be unbeatable and maybe take down the game,so it's better if it not free.
yooo you put world of warships in yay i know random game but i like warships when i have time to play
Great video, holy
Another good video Omi, I agree with a lot of he points you've made.
THAT ENDING DOE LOLLLLLLL
bro u gotta do the outro song this new year
2:58
Syria 🇸🇾: you're not already doing that?
Pov: You try to sleep irl
"You May not rest now, there are monsters nearby"
I think the other currencies since in other countries like Philippines cost like around 2k pesos that is only 30$ in US
Mojang could do what Ninja Kiwi do which is make a spin off game that is free to play but has in game purchases and would focus on the multiplayer aspects
thank you for playing sonic unleashed music in 2022 i rarely ever see it
yay neeew vid :D
This video is too good 👍
Awesome videos
honestly idk what would really change since minecraft feels more and more like a free to play game. it's been out forever and gets like one new mob or thing once half a century, and whatever amazing features PC might have takes a whole timeline to get on console editions - I still can't tell if being able to hold a torch and have it illuminate is a mod or a feature that just doesn't exist on playstation
9:07 for a sec. It sounded like EA games
subbed thanks to the classes help
Bro mentioned all the competiton with Overwatch without mentioning tf2 💀
More videos like this please
Brings up clash of clans gems:
Me: WAIT IS THAT CLASH OF CLANS
They could do it that when you buy the game you can create multiple accounts like on Netflix and give some to your friends to play on so they can join in the fun this would make a lot of people be able to play Minecraft while still making mojang a profit from selling sales they could also do it so that if your friend buys something on the account you gave them you also get it for free because they bought it
if it was like 30 dolar in america for every country the price would be fine but for poor countrys its so high that most of the people cant afford it
Minecraft dungeons was a good game I feel like
sure, it was a bit low in content for the price it had but I enjoyed it !
Me too
> "Roblox is doing fine"
Me: [Inhales] "BOI"
to the cracked player... if we see a anouncement of minecraft is going free...
*joy*
Free to play games could add more timers on to the things that cost money because that can give them FOMO (Fear of missing out) so they are pressured into buying their products.
the part with the hackers is the other way round in fact on bedrock as making an account is free i have a bunch of alts but only one i use mainly becouse i forgot my pasword but found it months later so it probs be like for 10 every active account theres 7 alts something like that if not more as then on bedrock they would bot accounts and sell them with hacked minecoins and that so it probs wouldnt bed better
if minecraft was free, Dev's would've gotten 2 meals a week instead of 3
Yoooo
Overwatch never dies!!
This is the most Technoblade style video I've every seen... and I love it.
now, you might have preordered dungeons, but i used the console and i guess i must have charged some random guys account because i never actually paid for the game but i still got it
3:00 Meanwhile omicron talking about minecraft and c418 and still playing undertale in the background
time the drop of golden hour to new years
Sir, I recognize you for the timed song beat drops at New Year’s Eve. I have a song recommendation, a link to the past intro song, it is a good song but it could save the world as we know it. The among us started the queens death, Russia vs Ukraine, and a lot more people dying. The link to the past can link us to the past and rewind the world into a prosperous age again.
to the hacker argument, on bedrock edition you don’t have to pay for an account but rather the game itself, so hackers can make infinite accounts and do whatever they want, the hacker argument isn’t really strong.
Well, I mean, not necessarily. If Bedrock was free to play, there’d be a large increase in game downloads and active players. And how many of those new players would be hackers? Probably a very small percentage, since, as you mentioned, the hackers already have infinite accounts when the game is paid for.
In the end, bedrock would have a lesser frequency of hackers simply because the people who are downloading Minecraft when it becomes free to play are legit players who are new to the game
Me who plays free through t launcher : I am four universes ahead of you
Great vid! but idk if anyone knew but alts on bedrock are free so when a hacker gets banned they just create a knew account and continue hacking.
Oh come on now I'm diamond 2 with no skin like wut? BTW love your content being like this
4:39 sounds like matpat here
Actuly , for the most of players that play "tlauncher" including me it's not the price that make you can't buy it , it's the payment that our county and others don't have , we litterly need a gift card (wich is very rare to find or even impossible) so our countys don't have any way to virtually pay only cash , so the problem is not it's cost so much , it's we can't pay in payment like PayPal , Mastercard , visa ,...ext bc it's not supported
It's countries first of all. Second. I do not belive there is a nation that does not support debit cards. Only if you are from middle East or Easter Africa. In which case. Rip.