This is a wonderful business and I really think they will go places. Minecraft servers are a huge part of the game, looking at our statistics for the servers section on the Minecraft forum it's clear there are millions of people trying to find a place to play every month, if Minefold can convert 10% of those to paying players they're going to do extremely well.
I was at Minecon (Minecraft Convention, Vegas November 2011) and while sat at a table with one of the Mojang employees I listened to a father and his son explain how managing a Minecraft server was hard work and they wish that Minecraft would have some sort of "simple" system for it; login and play. No screwing around with finding a company then managing a server and dealing with issues, just pay -> play. Minefold is what he described.
congrats on the (full) launch, marketed properly this service could easily capture 90% of the casual Minecraft players market. There will always be people who want full control over their Multiplayer experience and they are catered to by (quite literally) hundreds of companies, Minefold is the first company I've seen that that properly caters to casual players.
I was at Minecon (Minecraft Convention, Vegas November 2011) and while sat at a table with one of the Mojang employees I listened to a father and his son explain how managing a Minecraft server was hard work and they wish that Minecraft would have some sort of "simple" system for it; login and play. No screwing around with finding a company then managing a server and dealing with issues, just pay -> play. Minefold is what he described.
congrats on the (full) launch, marketed properly this service could easily capture 90% of the casual Minecraft players market. There will always be people who want full control over their Multiplayer experience and they are catered to by (quite literally) hundreds of companies, Minefold is the first company I've seen that that properly caters to casual players.