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  • @Mechanite@lemmy.world
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    133 months ago

    This isn’t really trivia for anyone who played back then,

    But you used to be able to play Minecraft for free back on the official website with no download required. Even online servers. It wasn’t an updated version of the game (Minecraft classic), but if you paid for the game it would be and still not be download required to play

      • @Mechanite@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        I guess the trivia for me is I had no idea they brought it back, at least for classic, not the full game (which is not possible to do anymore apparently). I just tried it out and it seems very similar if not the same, except the multiplayer seems to work different.

        I remember playing scripted capture the flag games on public Minecraft classic servers with the server browser listed directly on Minecraft.net

        I don’t see anything like that remaining, but it looks like it lets you invite people directly to your world instead

        This is what the server browser used to look like: https://web.archive.org/web/20120210141815/http://www.minecraft.net/classic/list

    • Radioactive Butthole
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      33 months ago

      Going even further back, in the very beginning you could only play Minecraft in the browser. The java client came later.

    • @flames5123@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      I used to play Minecraft in a browser before I bought it! This was back in 1.8 beta, right before 1.0 release. I was surprised to find out that it saved the files in the same place so I was able to resume playing immediately after buying it.