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		jiggy2011 on Nov 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” onlin... Most of the minecraft money comes from selling copies of the client, not from server subscriptions as in the case of WoW.

gizmo686 on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

To clarify this point, the Minecraft server is free to download [0], even if you have not purchased the game at all.

[0] https://minecraft.net/download

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