When You're a Minecraft Gamer, You're Living in a Company Town

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When You're a Minecraft Gamer, You're Living in a Company Town

Added: 05.02.2015 13:13 | 1 views | 0 comments

The Minecraft community proves to be as vast and varied as the game itself. We look inside three of the game's largest virtual societies. "Put your sword away, or they will kill you!" my tour guide laughed. I hastily complied. He had teleported me into a faction stronghold on his Minecraft server. While he was in complete control of every aspect of the server he co-owns, his relationship with these particular members was one of a passing familiarity. We were there on the recognition of his name alone. Since players in the Faction server were constantly hunting one another, seeking to destroy the members and strongholds of competing factions, seeing the sudden appearance of two random strangers on a server with over 5,000 active players in the base they had hand-built and fortified must have come as a shock. Needless to say, we teleported out quickly once it became clear that my gift of cooked chickens was going to be accepted-- just not as a peace offering.