Mojang Crushes Valve, Opens "The Minecraft Store"

[PatrickXD]

Yeah this is April Fool's, but I luaghed so hard at 'Regular Padlock'!

I just started clicking stuff, got the price to 10,000 and... EPILEPTIC FIT.

 

[Void(null)]

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 Valve [http://www.mojang.com/], who just don't have what it takes to come up with this kind of original idea. Good job, Notch!

Right because a Portal Gun is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO unoriginal.

I want to know what the $1499 item is! And who would buy it! I would hope it would be some kind of TARDIS.

Seems kinda pointless seeing as how you can already make your own Stargate in the game.

I know right! Those bastards! How dare they! You should write an angry letter to Notch!

 

[Megacherv]

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"

Really? Wow, my god, I had no idea, I was just gonna buy some enlargement pills as well

[/sarcasm]

I do find the store quite funny, especially with 'Steve Co.'

 

[Outright Villainy]

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 Valve [http://www.mojang.com/], who just don't have what it takes to come up with this kind of original idea. Good job, Notch!

Right because a Portal Gun is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO unoriginal.

I want to know what the $1499 item is! And who would buy it! I would hope it would be some kind of TARDIS.

Seems kinda pointless seeing as how you can already make your own Stargate in the game.

Ot: April fools are not allowed on march 31st, that's cheating!

 

[V8 Ninja]

If this wasn't the same day that I learned that Mojang AB had beaten Valve in the March Mayhem competition, I would have just laughed and moved on. Now I'm tempted to say that Notch is being a cocky bastard. Thankfully it's just a joke.

ALSO: No April's Fools jokes on the 31st! That's cheating!

 

[hazabaza1]

Wait...

Does this mean if when Mojang crushes Bioware in the finals, Notch will mark the occassion by introducing the option to romance Creepers?

Noooooooooooo!

(On the other hand, it'd be pretty much the perfect definition of a one night stand...)

Well, I bet in the bedroom a creeper would be...
EXPLOSIVE!

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

I like hwo tehy offer 5 $3 keys for $18. 5*3 is 15, for those who dont want to do the math.

 

[Scout Tactical]

I'm a little bit disgusted by the number of companies Mojang has beaten, when they haven't even completed one game. They have one game in beta, and no previously completed titles. Even Notch's coding is pretty terrible, as any serious modder will tell you. I guess it's the same reason the Farmville people did so well last year.

I guess Valve is probably kicking themselves for all the free advertising they gave Minecraft.

 

[lightsier]

Sadly for $1 I would buy a bunch of those things!

 

[James Raynor]

I wonder how valve will respond.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I want those damn Creeper Saddles!

 

[frago roc]

I wonder how valve will respond.

They won't - that's why Mojang won.

 

[Baldry]

Also, isn't it the 31st? April Fool's is tomorrow. Unless my calendar is playing a joke on me.

It may be tomorrow where he lives..?

He lives in Sweden, right? It'd be about 9:20PM there. Give or take an hour.

Maybe he's a time traveller and has travelled so much that it's messed with his mind and he constantly thinks it's tomorrow?

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I'll give him that.


Good show.

 

[Baldry]

Also, isn't it the 31st? April Fool's is tomorrow. Unless my calendar is playing a joke on me.

It may be tomorrow where he lives..?

Hmm

Also, isn't it the 31st? April Fool's is tomorrow. Unless my calendar is playing a joke on me.

It may be tomorrow where he lives..?

Still the 31st in Stockholm, but he might have put it up early just in case. Or perhaps it's only because he beat out Valve and decided to make a playful jab.

OT: I would pay for that helmet, torches are such a pain.

Also, the Creeper saddle is actually Minecraft's fast travel system. Find a creeper, align yourself in the general direction that you want to go, then hang on to the saddle as you're propelled into the atmosphere. (Note: NotchCorp advises inventing a parachute before traveling)

Ah well worth a guess...And a parachute would be a great invention, get on that!

 

[syltman]

Wow fell for it, then I saw that it was april's fool. Phew. Then again it's not really april yet so I call cheating!

 

[trymantha]

guys complaining about its not April fools, i just wanna say that where i live its been the first for just under 9 hours already

 

[Mr Companion]

I knew this article was a joke because there is no way Notch would add that much content to the game, lazy bugger he is .

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

I wonder how valve will respond.

They won't - that's why Mojang won.

I see what you did there.

OT: ... ... ... xD

 

[Dak_N_Jaxter]

To be honest it had me going for a bit.
I only started to realize something was wrong when I went to the store and saw the 5 key bargain.