More People Are Playing Minecraft than Black Ops

[Grey Day for Elcia]

A new game is more popular than a game almost two years older?

Seriously, why is this relevant or in any way new information?

 

[Aerosteam]

They may be playing Minecraft but its far from the definitive version. I don't get why you would buy the 360 version, its more money for less game and the 360 is far from the ideal platform.

It will soon be updated to the PC latest version, I love using a controller and my PC sucks.

The problem i foresee is that the 360 version does not even have creative mode yet. How long is it going to be before we see these features? There is simply no timescale, its like Alpha and Bta all over again except this time people are paying full whack.

There is also the issue for free updates. Notch explicitly stated they were given a "Limited set amount" of free updates. Here is the breakdown;

Minecraft has not stopped updating on the PC, we are at 1.2.5 at the moment. The 360 version seems to be running about Beta 0.7-0.8. The 360 will take quite a while to catch up to even 1.0 with all features, nevermind chasing post 1.0 updates [footnote]1.0 was not really a release build, i think they just called it "1.0" since minecraft is ever evolving and FAR from perfect as a structured game experience[/footnote] So what happens when the updates run out? Actually before that what happens if they don't get to 1.0 before the updates run out? And even if they do get there, won't the PC version of minecraft have already moved on to be a much better rounded game?

I'm not saying the 360 edition is better, I never did. Having most of the game is better than all of the game but laggy as Hell. I have both PC and Xbox 360 editions, and I prefer it on the console because most of my friends play on it and the fact that I am able to place 1 block per second.

If I had a PC that will run it at least 30 frames a second, I'd be playing Minecraft -or PC games in general- instead.

 

[kyoodle]

As someone who finds Minecraft even more boring than CoD (which is still No. 1 and No. 3) I will continue the Escapist tradition of declaring the medium dead and/or dying!!

 

[Beautiful End]

Spoiler

I should know. Anecdote time.

The day Minecraft was released for the 360, my friend invited me over and asked me to join him. I had never played Minecraft before and I never considered the game that interesting; Lego-like-Sims-wannabe game. But I gave it a shot anyway.
After 2 hours, I was completely addicted and in love with it.

Now, I had been thinking about getting a 360 for a while now. I'm a PS3 lover (Not fanboy) but I admit the 360 has its perks. This game made me go buy a 360 almost immediately after.

...But it's very addicting. Seriously, I dream about building stuff. I hear the songs in my head. And they're just background songs!

Someone help me...

No one can help you... those that have played it are under the same influence, and those that haven't can never understand.

One day you will find yourself making sand castles on a REAL beach. But when the sun slowly sets you will start excavating large quantities of earth with your fists. That is the point of no return.

In all seriousness though, wait until you see the "adventure" update. I don't know what the situation with the Xbox version is, but if we have it on the PC you will likely see it on the Xbox sooner or later.

Oh, gods! Adventure update?!

Brb, saying goodbye to the real world...

 

[Evil Smurf]

I want to play minecraft, but don't know how to buy it and I have Lego at home

 

[Antari]

A very good day in gaming! Shooters are finally bleeding out!

 

[lRookiel]

I want to play minecraft, but don't know how to buy it and I have Lego at home

http://www.minecraft.net/

If you have a paypal account, then go right ahead, register an account, buy the copy then download the game launcher (it works on any OS too)

:3

OT:

I approve....

Glad to see Indie games can outsell AAA trash.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

A new game is more popular than a game almost two years older?

Seriously, why is this relevant or in any way new information?

I second this, sure there's still a massive amount of people on Black Ops, but there's an even bigger amount on Modern Warfare 3, if Minecraft beat that, then I would be thoroughly impressed, otherwise, its not that big of a deal

 

[Vrach]

A new game is more popular than a game almost two years older?

Seriously, why is this relevant or in any way new information?

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble but this^

Beat MW3. Then we can talk. Not saying this as a CoD fanboi. Far from it. But beating a 2 year old game that has a successor that's beating Minecraft isn't that impressive. If anything, the impressive part is that Black Ops is still so high with MW3 out.

edit: hurray for the new descriptive captchas. Writing "fuck off" seems to work every time. Not only is it easier, but demonstrates my feelings towards this system as well. Thumbs up for being amusing, if useless.

 

[VoidRipper717]

YAAAAAAAAAY!!! MINECRAFT IS AWESOME. I DONT HAVE THE XBOX VERSION I HAVE THE 1.2.5FULLVERSION FOR PC BUT STILL YAAAAAAAAAAY I AM SOSOOSOSOSOSOSOSOSOS HAPPY I COULD SHRIEK XD!