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I love how people talk as if they have the slightest clue of what's going on over at Mojang. For all we know, there was a provider-side scheduled maintenance window that wasn't relayed to the public (or had more of an impact than assumed). I have more stories about these sorts of things than you'd have time to listen to. I would also like to meet one of these psychic I.T guys Fluffy.
And this provider-side maintenance happens every week-end when the most amount of people want to login? Something like this happens every weekend and has been happening since 1.2 or maybe even earlier.
I don't work for Mojang, so I really don't know what the deal is. I don't know what their growth metrics are or what their workflow looks like in terms of expanding/maintaining services. For all we know, they've got some sort of automatic updates happening. I'm speaking more to people bitching and complaining about what Notch is/isn't doing as if they work next to him and don't agree with his methods.
Minecraft.net down: Forever alone.
Skellys mobbing you in outlands: Forever a bone.
Regional rules say no cobble construction: Forever cook stone.
Trying to assemble song with note blocks by ear: Forever wrong tone.
Can't crouch low enough to crawl under 1 block high spaces: Forever no prone.
Standing around waiting to harvest crops and trees: Forever ungrown.
Zombies spawning in open area behind your wall: Forever a moan.
Takes 2 weeks for your land claim applications to be approved: Forever wrong zone.
Cool story bro!
While I agree that people assume too much of mojang/notch but when one pays for a product it is assumed that one will be able to use this product wheneverone wishes. Having to connect through their web servers before I can play multiplayer is fine, I understand they have to protect their product some how but if you're going to take this DRM type route you should at least make sure it works properly.