Hey everyone, I've been wanting to pick up Minecraft on PC for a while now but I keep holding off hoping for a discount, and honestly I'm starting to wonder if it ever actually goes on sale. Every time I see a headline about a Minecraft sale I check the store and it's the same $29.99 as always, which is pretty frustrating. I know there's stuff like Block Friday but I'm not sure if that applies to the game itself or just the marketplace content. Has anyone actually managed to get it cheaper, and if so when and how? I'd rather not wait years for a discount that might never come, so any advice on whether to just buy it now or hold out would be really helpful.
You're not imagining it, Minecraft genuinely goes on sale very rarely, which is why those headlines are so misleading. In 15 years it's only been discounted a handful of times, and between 2019 and 2024 it wasn't cut once. The pattern so far is that Mojang marks round anniversaries with real discounts, like the 10th and 15th, and there was a holiday sale last winter at around 25% off, which was the first time the game itself got a discount in years. Block Friday and the New Year sales only cover the Marketplace, so skins, maps and add-ons, not the game. Your realistic bets are the upcoming holiday window in December, which may repeat last year's 25%, and the 20th anniversary in 2029 where 50% looks close to certain, though waiting that long is a big ask. If you want the full history and the forecast broken down by date, there's a really thorough article here: https://dsgamix.com/en/articles/minecraft-discount/ . It also covers ways to save without an official sale, like Game Pass or retailer codes.