Talk:Demo

Anyone know why the demo mode isn't working? I'm liking what I've seen of the game in videos and thinking about buying it, but would just like to try it to see if it plays as cool as it looks.

I did all 3 steps outlined on the minecraft site, created an account, downloaded the (very small) .exe file, and logged into it, clicking "Play Demo" when it came back with the "Not Premium Member" message (because, naturally, I'm not a paying customer yet).

I'm doing this on a PC, and my system meets all the specifications listed for running this game.

Right when I click "Play Demo" another popup window appears saying "Updating Minecraft" and below that immediately "Done loading" with a progress bar that right from the getgo shows about 95% complete/green, but never goes that last 5% or so to 100% full. And nothing happens from there, ever. On repeated attempts.

It looks like from one of the pages here on the wiki this demo might be very new and just implemented as of August 1st, 2012. If anyone knows how to contact or notify the creators/distributors of the game itself of this bug, that'd be appreciated on both ends I'm sure (I can't find any contact info on the site or any way of reporting problems.)

And otherwise any tips anyone might have to help get the demo actually working would be much appreciated. Thanks!

(I posted about this on the minecraft forums, under the Support section, in the Minecraft Game Client subsection. But there are so many posts there about so many topics far beyond the demo stage, plus at least one other post I saw about problems with the demo, which had no responses, so I'm guessing it might get lost in the shuffle.)

174.25.156.179 11:23, 5 August 2012 (UTC) AviKyz (also my user/display name on the minecraft forums and, whenever I actually get to play it, in the game itself)


 * Currently the demo only works if a premium user has already downloaded the game. Pmw57 04:05, 12 August 2012 (UTC)