I installed and ran Minecraft on a fresh install of MacOS 10.9, created a new profile that allows development versions, and clicked Play.
I noticed the download was taking a long time so I flipped to the logging tab in the launcher (see attached file). It seems the launcher tried downloading files too quickly and the server temp-banned my IP address.
When trying to download one of the files in the log:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Resources/sound/random/bowhit2.ogg
I get:
<Error><Code>SlowDown</Code><Message>Please reduce your request rate.</Message><RequestId>767C530ABF5E64E8</RequestId><HostId>6IP69BNprQvK8SKmtJ7jxRqxO4ouAF2aCmF8vHSPkGa+pdX/AxLPbSjDpOTwH1kr</HostId></Error>
I just tried again at 4:38PM Eastern time on November 16, 2013 and got the same error message. This issue initially happened around 20 minutes ago and I'm still unable to download files.
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8:43PM Eastern November 16, 2013: - same error when trying to fetch https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Resources/sound/random/bowhit2.ogg:
<Error><Code>SlowDown</Code><Message>Please reduce your request rate.</Message><RequestId>A3702729AC468FD9</RequestId><HostId>kxLCWQqGf37TMkxwOn4KfKWqK4YI0codyTWqz5llr3gZbXUre8zNGuoBFUw0DfGR</HostId></Error>
I am experiencing this same exact issue.
"Please reduce your request rate."
Very frustrating, such a nonsense issue – it is their own launcher's request rate.
Edit to add: Attempting install on Win7 64 bit (if that even matters - bad launcher! bad!)