Minecraft to enter beta soon, will increase in price

The mind behind Minecraft, Notch, has announced that Minecraft will be making the move from alpha to beta on December 20th. The change will come with a price rise and will mark a shift in development focus, with extra modding support and some story elements already in the works.

The price of Minecraft will also rise from 10 Euro to 14.75 Euro, and those who wait to buy the beta version won't necessarily get all future updates for free. "We will also change the license to remove the line that promises all future versions of the game for free. Please note that this change only affects people who buy the game after December 20, so if you got the game for during alpha, you will still get all future updates for free, despite this change. A promise is a promise. Buying the game during beta will include all updates up until release, of course, and bug patches will be free."

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.