You download it for free, but you have to purchase the game to play it.
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You can download it for free and you can play for free but not online. If you enter a random name and password and click login, you will come to have two options, retry login, or play offline.
You can play Minecraft Classic for free from the Minecraft webpage.
You can download minecraft free from getminecraftforfree.org.
You can get it from the minecraft website.
There are no more websites with free Minecraft on them anymore.
yes you can download minecraft but its not free fo game
Well minecraft has a copyright on the game so a free download not from minecraft.net is illegal.
You can get free Classic Minecraft from the minecraft website, and play the demo version there too for free.
There is a free version called Minecraft Classic available on the minecraft website.
Technically, anyone can download Minecraft for free from Minecraft's website; however, you can only play Minecraft if you purchase an account.
You can download it possibly from minecraft forums.
you cannot get minecraft for free
Minecraft can be downloaded on the softonic homepage for free. By searching "Minecraft download free" on Google it is the first result. There are other sites like "Chip" or "Computerbild".