I was put off playing Minecraft since I played the freebie version way back when it was 'new'.
And some friends poked me into trying it. Lo and behold, a server crash and a free weekend.
Minecraft didn't cost me £10. My story is that my PC is still having random freezing issues, very likely due to some of my hardware. Every freeze-crash seems to cause a little backstep in the immediate data during the crash. My winamp playlist reverts to the one I had prior to starting up my computer when it froze. And Minecraft? IT DELETES THE WORLD I WAS IN, and then REFUSES TO RESTORE FROM A BACKED UP FOLDER. ffffffffffffff~
So I decided to finally take the dive, and poked around for a new motherboard and CPU, and get forced to find new RAM too. I wince at the price but put the order up. I could have held off easily because my computer is still pretty strong... but... but... minecraft. My lost floating castle. My towering mage's spire. My tree town. All gone.
So. £10? Try £330.
Damnit Notch.
Okay so now i've finished regaling you with my thrillingly long-winded tale of the day, I get to remind you all of how assholish Paypal can be. You all know that Notch had his Paypal account frozen with a huge heap of money in, without any reason other than the usual "suspicious transaction", right? I'm sure you've all heard the horror stories about Paypal, and seen the pattern with Paypal freezing accounts with large amounts of money in, refusing to offer up any specifics, keeping it on ice for 6-12 months and claiming all the interest during that period? Yeah, well, apparently Paypal only unfroze his account because he agreed to some VERY suspect terms. Paypal wants a 5% 'reserve' of all of his sales going through that account. He had to agree, otherwise they might have tried to seize the funds. The tl;dr version of this and common dealings with paypal is : If you must use Paypal, never attach credit-cards to your account, and never allow a large amount of money in there[/i]. That s**t can't be legal, but they keep getting away with it despite a constant light shower of legal investigations.