This is the main way I used to play Minecraft in the Beta days, thanks!

There's a very funny story behind MinecraftForFree.com which is what most people used back then.

Notch (the creator of minecraft) was angry someone was posting his game online for free. He emailed the owner, Dylan, of the site threatening legal action.

Instead of going down a legal route, Dylan challenged him play a game of quake3 to settle the dispute.

If notch won, Dylan would take the site down. If Dylan won, notch would would leave him alone and let him keep hosting the site.

Notch agreed, won the match, and Dylan followed the promise and took it down forever!

> If Dylan won, notch would would leave him alone and let him keep hosting the site.

Small correction, Dylan always planned to take the site down. They were playing for Minecraft capes[0] for him and his two teammates. The original livestream of the match is still up on Twitch also.[1]

[0] Cosmetics that used to be very rare and only given out by devs or at MineCon

[1] https://twitch.tv/videos/38469359

Thank you for the correction! The story is basically minecraft folklore, so the details get exaggerated.

There are even recordings of their match (in two parts), they're quite funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Fu0SZ7PN8

Wow, same here, but I somehow completely forgot about that!

It's more about sending a message than the comfort. Up the tweet!

Very concise, as someone who doesn't run an online business, my intuition would absolutely be "More traffic, more money"

"More money" as in "a larger AWS bill"? Quite probably.

"More money" as in "more sales"? Maybe, if you're lucky and there's enough audience for your product among the incoming crowd.

"More money" as in "more ads shown"? Well, this is why we can't have nice things :-|