Minecraft Shifting to Beta With Price Hike

[GamingAwesome1]

No. Because you're talking out of your ass.

What I described would be an engine whore or something. Big parts of the game play like the physics and the tools don't falll under graphics. I'm certainly not a graphics whore.

3DS max (along with maya) is the most powerful 3D tool out there. Good luck importing sewing or some furniture into a game.

seeing the leaves still hovering up there with a big chunk missing from the middle... It was kind fo a deal breaker.

Big parts of the game play like the physics and the tools don't falll under graphics

seeing the leaves still hovering

Big parts of the game play

seeing

game play

See the mismatch here? Just because your complaint involves physics does not mean that it is not related to the visual representation of the game, i.e., graphics. Unless you want me to believe that falling leaves would somehow improve the game such as to elevate it from a "deal breaker" to a "must have." And for the punching trees part of the complaint... sorry, I'm just not seeing it as an immersion breaker in a world made out of identically sized blocks. Heck, one of the most well known and popular games of console history involves a man who jumps on turtles and punches through brick walls. And he does it in one hit, unlike that Minecraft pansy.

As for that last comment... once again, you missed the point. I don't think poorly of programs like 3DS max, and I have respect for those who have mastered them. I'm just saying that anything can be dismissed with a one liner by those who haven't experienced it. An ignorant person could just have easily taken it further and said that sewing and cabinetry are also pointless due to the existence of Wal-Mart.

You're arguing misguided semantics. It's part of the physics engine, which is part of the gameplay. not the graphics... do you see the difference? Understand the terms before making a retarded argument.

To me. having an object be suspended in the air when you remove it's support is just bad engineering. It adds nothing to the game and is simply lazy. And being able to punch through wood and rocks is just another level of retarded.

And again, you're making a moot point. What is the justification of minecraft when you can just open 3DS and make something twice as impressive twice as fast?

Lazy? You're arguing that a single person is lazy for creating this game? He's put in more work into this than most major developers do.

And now he has a giant team working with him. It's still not been fixed.

He could also have used an existing engine to work the physics.

I'm going to jump in here and state that some blocks (sand and gravel) do have realistic physics, water and lava both flow like you'd expect them too aswell.

It's intended that blocks don't have physics except for those few, it's what makes those blocks unique.

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

There is actually an entry in the public to do list about this

"Perhaps all floating chunks of blocks should fall down, except for a special block (obsidian?) that can be used to make floating things. Floating islands would need obsidian veins to stay afloat."

Ah......well.

That shut me up!

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Already bought it and glad I did, have put plenty of time in to it. Look forward to the updates yet to come.

This.

Haven't played in a while but I'm still happy I own a copy.

 

[Zakarath]

Hm... my finals are over, now I can actually put some time into this game that I bought a while back.

 

[tehbeard]

Every bit of terrain that doesn't have light shining on it disappears or become see through,even when they are visible the vast majority of blocks have glitched textures,every sound and track in the game is just static and shadows are red.Or is that not game breaking?

Or is this going to be a case of "I haven't seen that SPECIFIC error, therefore it doesn't exist and you are trolling?"

To me, this sounds like a problem with your PC, not minecraft.

- Do you have up to date drivers?
- Do you have all OS patches?
- Are you using a Graphics card from this millienia?

 

[-IT-]

Must . . . buy . . . before price hike . . .

Do hope I'll get my pig now.

 

[Wharrgarble]

You know what? This game isn't for everyone.

There is no written law in the universe that states everyone has to like/dislike the same thing... Or else!

I personally find it incredibly entertaining. The size of the world, the exploration, the fact that no two games are the same for everyone, and that the possibilities of what can be created area almost endless.

It's a great game for creative types who may not have the skills required to create impressive 3D, computer generated sculptures. It's also a great game for the generally uncreative, who want a chance to explore in a non-threatening atmosphere with no pressure to accomplish perfection.

Then of course with the zombies, skeletons, and Creepers, the survival component of the game brings out an amazing feeling of personal accomplishment every time the sun rises and you have, in fact, survived another night.

It's fun, it's creative, and it's unique. But! It's not for everyone. If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, then it's cool. However, if you have any lingering curiosity, might as well buy it now before it hits beta.

Who knows? You might end up loving it.

 

[Tdc2182]

Still not interested in it.

It's glorified lego.

You say that like its a bad thing.

 

[ahiddenfigure]

Instead of implementing no fast travel system and make exploration tedious or employing the lazy button-press fast travel that makes no sense (if I can't click to New York on Christmas, why should he?), they implement something that makes a bit of sense (a "scale universe" in which one step equates roughly to eight in the real world).

To hell with the Nether, do what I did:
1.Take all your gathered cobblestone (and I mean ALL of it), and build a giant causeway between your island and the one next to you/wherever you need to go.
2. Get a map editor and add a minecart track to said causeway.
3. Craft 2 minecarts: 1 normal, 1 powered
4. PROFIT!

Also, creepers. The only monster in a videogame that SHOULD look like a badly-made phallic reptile thingy, but instead terrifies the SHIT out of me. I have found myself actually shrinking back into my chair in the ridiculous hope that that will make me far enough away that it doesn't explode and wreck my shit. That's terror, Doom 3, which is not some big demony thingy that pops out of walls every 10 seconds.

YES! So I'm not the only one scared shitless by those bastards. I'm at the point where my house is 80% glass so I can see if one is hiding, ready to administer its own special explosive surprise buttsecks when I walk out my door.

 

[Olrod]

As someone who's never even HEARD of Minecraft, what is it?

Some sort of minesweeper-based parody of Starcraft?

 

[Lord Honk]

As someone who's never even HEARD of Minecraft, what is it?

Some sort of minesweeper-based parody of Starcraft?

You haven't heard? Well, imagine a crossover between Tron and Lego bricks. That's as basic as I can go. If you want to have your mind blown, check some youtube videos, there are millions.

Also, get the game! NAO!

 

[Mista Miggins]

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[Vohn_exel]

I'm pretty sure he said that once Minecraft's MP was as good as SP, it'd move into Beta. So this news could come with a hidden secret thats just as exciting!

Nah, just when Survival Multiplayer was in. Nothing about multiplayer being "as good" as singleplayer.

Game will enter beta once survival works in multiplayer: "Once survival mode multiplayer works as well as singleplayer, the game will enter beta.

Notch: "Once the damage and so are in multiplayer, we'll be in beta. This is not the beta release." (Oct 30, 2010)

Notch: "Beta happens when SMP works well, and that includes having server side health" (Nov 11, 2010)

This is what I was basing my assumption on. You can find it in the "List of things Notch actually said" thread on the Minecraft forums. I see he's mostly saying now that it just needs to work well. SMP has been in for a while, but people had to host their own servers. I just got a small taste of it once when a friend had a server up, but it was pretty cool. Once it gets to working, I might play it more than I did regular Survival.

As someone who's never even HEARD of Minecraft, what is it?

Some sort of minesweeper-based parody of Starcraft?

This is an update to the trailer that originally got me into Minecraft. It really is a fun game, although I haven't been playing it lately. It's really cool and a great buy for basically ten bucks.

 

[Croaker42]

Glad I already own it.
Also Minecraft is........ consuming. I loose hours just mining. I start and get a good complex of stepped mining then look up and its three hours later I am hungry and have managed to piss myself.
So if you?re wondering if buying into the alpha is worth it. The answer would be yes.

 

[Retardinator]

I think it would be a better idea to move the date to 26th December. I was planning on getting my mom to buy me the game for Christmas. Whether she'll agree with it now is becoming questionable...

 

[Abedeus]

15 euro is 60 pln (my country's currency). 60 pln is price of most games released in cheaper editons. 100 pln is the usual price for brand new games.

The price is too high.

Bought it when it was.. and still is 10 EUR. Which is 40 PLN.

Also, brand new games usually cost MORE THAN 100 PLN. Mass Effect 130, for instance, Starcraft II... what, 180 or 200? Can't remember. Aion 200. WoW more than 100 too.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

If I download it can I put it on a external hard drive cause I think I'm getting a Mac soon, so would anyone know?

 

[Wicky_42]

If I download it can I put it on a external hard drive cause I think I'm getting a Mac soon, so would anyone know?

You buy an online account the client logs into, so no problems there.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

If I download it can I put it on a external hard drive cause I think I'm getting a Mac soon, so would anyone know?

You buy an online account the client logs into, so no problems there.

Ah many thanks good sir!