I may actually have to get back into this. I’ve been pondering setting up a whitelist only server for family and friends, so I might have to do it.

The official Mojang announcement
Minecraft Wiki page about the update
Reddit video summaries about 1.5 (songs about Minecraft 1.5)

With the impending launch of Minecraft Realms, I’ll be interested to … Read full article »

My post here (as GunsmithCNY) sums up everything I’ve said (but I’ll copy/paste in-case EA revises history): Walk away from this game. Now.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/0/9355863.page#27571383
I’ve got to agree with Blazur here. Loss of data is completely unacceptable. Out of any issues with the online-only methodology, complete unrecoverable loss of a city should *never* occur. I too have … Read full article »

Day 2: Abandon hope, all ye who launch SimCity.
Servers unavailable 90% of the time I kick off the launcher. If I manage to get authenticated, I get dropped into a queue. If I manage to wait out the queue… I get disconnected.
So many launch problems… the simcity.com page itself has a slider stating they are … Read full article »