thanks i was about to paste something similar :P
the classic server does not require authentication as it is free, it still works.
the reason the 'server is down' is because of minecraft.net's authentication server being borked AGAIN. if minecraft.net returns a blank page, ALL minecraft beta...
well its different graphical style, wow is very simple graphics, but i like it better than lotro, which just looks grey and dull. still a decent game, but i moved on as i found it boring, but this is my opinion :P
i agree, money is being put in, its now time to prevent this stuff from happening, and as it appears, all of minecraft is on a single server, website, authentication server... everything. atleast buy some dedicated servers... and maybe a tech guy to maintain them? this isnt much to ask. there...
lol i modded minecraft so that this skin was the default skin, then i took a pic of the first default person i saw, which happened to be Crunchy :p he was only looking at me cause he was paranoid i was gonna grief i think xD but he made a good model. my name is rich1051414 in game.
Edit: and...
So yesterday i heard someone tell someone they were 'skinless', and i misunderstood, thinking they had a skinless skin, when i learned my mistake i thought, hey, what a cool idea for a skin :) here is the result
Sorry bout the duplicate threads, but for some reason after my application was 'reviewed' and moved to that thread, i was no longer able to add more pics to the same thread, unless I am just doing something wrong :P
When i realized that my work was getting buried and forgotten, i made a new one...