Minecraft Hackers say, "We love the game, that's why we're breaking it."

Minecraft (possibly the biggest game to come right out of nowhere) has been experiencing some stability issues. Players of the content creating game have been having significant slowdowns and have been having a hard time playing the game. The reason for this is an orchestrated DDoS attack.

What is a DDoS attack?

A DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) is an attack meant to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. How this is done is to have computer bots in the thousands constantly and simultaneously logging into the service thus creating slowdowns.

The reason for this is not known until an anonymous posting appeared on, where else, 4Chan.

Aw yes 4chan, if ever there was a reason for the internet to be utterly destroyed it would be because of you.

Anyway, the posting is of someone taking responsibility for the minecraft attacks saying that this attack is a result of disgruntled Minecraft customers who are upset about lack of updates for the $12 game that is currently in Alpha stage.

The full post:

"Minecraft is currently experiencing a stimulation provided by us.

It’s purpose is to send Notch a clear message of how the future of minecraft will turn out unless he gets to work, namely by influencing the amount of sales taking place, due to the attacks.

Start providing your customers with the updates that you promise them.

We have roughly 83,000 bots available, and preserved for this seizure, we could if we wanted to keep this going for weeks, however we have decided to give it a week, and see whether or not your attitude, and commitment will change, we believe it will when money stops rolling in for the time being…

anyhow, no we’re not from roblox, or any other minecraft clone, not to mention none of us have been around 4chan for years, and nor has any real 4channers for that matter, its all newf**s now, and has been for quite a few years.”

Minecraft creator Markus Persson has filed a protection service against these types of attacks and has begun work on a more powerful server.

Frankly if it were me, I'd shut down Minecraft just to spite the whining man-babies, but that's why I'm not a game developer.

This supposed representative claims to not be from 4chan, but the absolute backwards idiocy that surrounds this post can only come from a 4chan user. To call these attacks retarded would be the greatest insult to retarded people, not even they would be so stupid as to get behind this. It would be like me holding the post office hostage because my issue of Gameinformer was late.

We can only hope that Minecraft can continue back to normal despite these ridiculous attacks. And to the supposed attacker, I have only this to say.