It's extremely rare but every so often you can find it included as a promotion when buying something else. They "give it away free" when you buy another game, or console or computer or whatever.
minecraft isn't in the limelight as much anymore so there doesn't seem to be any incentive to give it away.
You MAY find it cheaper at a box store like Walmart, Target or whatever, as a sale item.
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You have to get an account on the real minecraft website.
No, the most important part of Minecraft is a premium account which needs to be registered online. Since the client program itself is only tiny, there's no real point selling it in disk form, you can get it online after registering your account.
There is no fake Minecraft, but you need a paid account.
well first you could just register an account and play online, or just download the real minecraft one
The only legal way to get "the real Minecraft" free is to have someone else buy it for you and give it to you.