So, wait, do we have to pay again if we bought it in beta or not? And where do you get the newest version? My game is stuck at beta 1.8 and won't update.
Minecraft Is Finished
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No, if you bought the game already, you don't have to buy it again. What he meant by discount is that buying it while it was in beta is 25% cheaper than buying it after release.KarmaTheAlligator said:
As for the update, 1.8 is the most recent official update. You can find the prereleases int the minecraft wiki, but it's hardly worth it since release version 1.0 goes live on the 18th.
I think that bears repeating. In large red letters.Dr_Horrible said:
If you bought the game already, you don't have to buy it again.
If you don't own it and you buy it now, you will get it for cheaper than if you buy it after Minecraft 1.0 comes out in less than two days.
And as a footnote:
If you bought during the Alpha phase, the Mojang license agreement stated you get all future updates for free. So you get all future updates for free.
If you bought during the Beta phase (25% off) or buy during the Release phase (full price), then major content updates might not be free, no one has decided yet. Notch has stated that bug fixes will remain free for everyone.
This, my fellow companions, directly translate to.Gplars said:
"If someone gives this a bad score, the horde of prepubescent extremist fans will descend upon the site in a cyclone of angry words and tear-soaked messages."
If someone gives Minecraft a bad score it's completely justified as it's opinion, you don't have to agree with it.
Personally I'd give Minecraft a 6.5/10, fun for awhile but the glitches and bugs will soon ruin your experience.
Might be a stupid question but I haven´t played the game in quite a while now so just to be clear: Can I just continue playing my world and have all the 1.0 features, and also the new stuff from all the patches I missed, in there or do I have to start a new one?
Wow... and by "wow" I mean Meh.
Ignoring the question of graphics, Minecraft was interesting for a time. Much like sleeping upside down it was a new experience for an old concept. And much like sleeping upside down the more I played it the less and less feeling of accomplishment it gave me, and the more severe the headaches became as I realized I could just be sleeping in my comfy, horizontal bed. Followed by the bewilderment of people singing the inverted nap's praises from their perches, their faces engorged with blood. "But it was thought up by one guy[footnote]Play along, no argument regarding infiniminer is needed here[/footnote] and is totally innovative and a special little snowflake, not a massed produced bed like everyone else uses." And I might have played along with that, if Terraria hadn't come out, and Minecraft's various updates and patches didn't take months to produce and another month to iron out the fatal bugs. AAA companies become the bloated monstrosities that they are by occasionally allowing a glimmer of creativity and visionary drive to produce their products... which they subsequently milk to death, to the point that if the IP were a cow it's udder would be dragging on the ground 15' behind it. But for that one glimmering moment six, maybe up to even twenty-one[footnote]78% of all statistics and numerical figures are made up on the spot[/footnote] times a year you get to experience something with polish, intelligence, depth AND the creative spark.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Minecraft was made, good job to everyone at Mohjang. But it's still a game that would have fit in just as well between copies of Super Mario World and Tetris, as placed in descending order.
Ignoring the question of graphics, Minecraft was interesting for a time. Much like sleeping upside down it was a new experience for an old concept. And much like sleeping upside down the more I played it the less and less feeling of accomplishment it gave me, and the more severe the headaches became as I realized I could just be sleeping in my comfy, horizontal bed. Followed by the bewilderment of people singing the inverted nap's praises from their perches, their faces engorged with blood. "But it was thought up by one guy[footnote]Play along, no argument regarding infiniminer is needed here[/footnote] and is totally innovative and a special little snowflake, not a massed produced bed like everyone else uses." And I might have played along with that, if Terraria hadn't come out, and Minecraft's various updates and patches didn't take months to produce and another month to iron out the fatal bugs. AAA companies become the bloated monstrosities that they are by occasionally allowing a glimmer of creativity and visionary drive to produce their products... which they subsequently milk to death, to the point that if the IP were a cow it's udder would be dragging on the ground 15' behind it. But for that one glimmering moment six, maybe up to even twenty-one[footnote]78% of all statistics and numerical figures are made up on the spot[/footnote] times a year you get to experience something with polish, intelligence, depth AND the creative spark.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Minecraft was made, good job to everyone at Mohjang. But it's still a game that would have fit in just as well between copies of Super Mario World and Tetris, as placed in descending order.
These are exactly my thoughts on Minecraft. Minecraft completely went in the wrong direction for me, I wanted new lego blocks to play with, not rpg elements. Floodgates, lifts, mills, different size wooden planks, more trees, more food, more animals, etc you get the picture. I absolutely hate 1.8 and everything afterwards.Steve the Pocket said:
Coupled with the insane slowness which with updates came out made me hate Minecraft while I loved it before. I feel like the fame and money went to Notch's head and messed up his vision on the game. And now I'm sad because the game I thought Minecraft was going to be turns out to be a steaming pile of crap. Well, I had loads of fun and I'm very happy that Notch decided to make a game about lego blocks with monsters, but now it's over for me.
Well to be honest the has really been more or less finished for a good while it is only just official now that is "finished" with a bit of a price hike.
It saddens me that not enough people are UPSET by this being the "official" release of the game. It further proved, yet again, that Notch has no clue what a development cycle is, as the game never left Alpha, and still hasn't.
He "released" the game without the promised mod support, without optimizing the game AT ALL, or fixing most of the major bugs that have persisted for over a year. Yes, that lovely memory leak due to not having any line of sight rendering is still around. If you're on a 32bit system, enjoy your frequent crashes.
He "released" the game without the promised mod support, without optimizing the game AT ALL, or fixing most of the major bugs that have persisted for over a year. Yes, that lovely memory leak due to not having any line of sight rendering is still around. If you're on a 32bit system, enjoy your frequent crashes.
Frankly I'm disappointed. When I first discovered minecraft my mind buzzed with things that if added or tweaked could make this game amazing. But almost every update was an over-hyped let-down. Don't get me wrong I loved this game at one time and I still enjoy it from time to time but for a game that had so much potential to end like THIS. A half-assed boss fight and some crop-trampling villagers is just sad. Luckily the mod community will continue to add amazing things to keep me entertained. (oh about that mod-support, Notch...)
This game is FAR from finished.
This game is FAR from finished.