Minecraft hits the motherlode, reaches two million purchases

@xcgsdfasdafsg

These customers are not very happy.

@(Unverified)

Minecraft is to me what Peggle is to the Joystiq Overlords: pure crack.

@sonicspike41

EXTREME FEVER!!!

@Once known as Shadsy

I sssssssssssssee what you did there...

@OneManFreakShow

Uh.. definitely a problem with your computer. No hitches at all on mine.

@OneManFreakShow Try the new update out, it fixes some slowdown issues by doing some technical work on the graphics.

@OneManFreakShow Also run it in a browser.The standalone Java player is a pos. That's Sun's fault, not Majong's as far as I can tell.

@PoisonedAl - Is that...is that a real thing I can do? If so, how do I do that? If it will run better through a browser, I'm all over it.

I just found nuclear TNT the other day. One brick, and a mountain gets destroyed. I can't seem to set off too many at once without the POS Java client crashing though.

@BananaBoat
http://www.minecraft.net/game/

@beano311 - Consider my mind blown.

@MrMagicMushroom *Played it late last year till Beta and a bit afterwards*

@MrMagicMushroom

See, now, I don't get why you can't just play Ace of Spades. I play both, I like both. I don't want the two of them to be identical.

@saturn118

Asshole, one guy made this game.

@Anticrawl And that somehow makes it worse does it

@saturn118

No but it still makes you an asshole.

@Anticrawl

Not to justify anything, but Notch has a team to handle most of the work now, and on top of that a huge portion of updates are simply incorporated from popular mods.

@MysticMaven

"Maybe the Minecraft players weren't born yet to know what Second Life is?"

Now let's all just look at that sentence and think real hard.

@MysticMaven

People who like Minecraft grew up on Legos. People who like Second Life grew up on The Sims.

@Acosta02
Ow. My brain.

@Anticrawl

I grew up on both and I still know that SecondLife blows.

@PR0F3TA The gameplay is pretty insane too. I can't wait for the official mod API to roll out, just to see what crazy things people make.

The server I'm playing on right now has a few unofficial custom mods, and it's ridiculous. Now we have a permanent negaworld that's filled with creepers and constantly getting desecrated. Given the number of craters, it looks roughly like the surface of the moon, but with trenches and many deaths.

If that's what we can make NOW, just imagine...

I grew up on both!! OH SHI-*brain explodes*

@(Unverified)

Ok. It's like MS Paint. Where you have to handcraft the pencil tool. And then mine for the pixels. And make dyes for the colours.

Actually, it's not like MS Paint at all remotely. If I were to pick two entirely unrelated programs I would pick iTunes and Metro 2033, but my second choice would be Minecraft and MS Paint.

@(Unverified)

Irregardless, it IS a game. You are in a world, and you interact with it. You have enemies, a health bar, exploration, goals, rewards, achievements. I'm sorry, but you're just being narrow minded if you don't consider this a game. Creative mode? That might be considered more of a tool or art program. But Beta has all of the common elements of "games".

@Colin

Sorry, last post, but I know irregardless isn't a word. I'm so sorry I forgot to remove the ir. :(

@Colin

It is a creative tool where a person manipulates blocks of various colors to form patterns

Minecraft and MS Paint are not the same by any means, but they are both creative tools with no set goal. Just because Minecraft is more complicated does not mean the two are not related

@Colin

Minecraft has game like elements, but has no set goal. You can not "win" Minecraft, therefore as far as I define the word Minecraft is not a game.

Allow me to try and explain my reasoning better by using a similar example. Starcraft 2* is a sport, WoW raiding is not. The difference is in how you play. Starcraft pits two people against each other in real time, allowing players to react in realtime. In WoW raiding, players are compeating against each other, but any reaction to others actions is delayed. Therefore, WoW raiding is a competition, not a sport.

In a similar vain, while Minecraft can certainly be fun and entertaining, it has no set goal at this time. Just because it has game like elements, does not mean it qualifies as a game. Interestingly, in this regard Minecraft resembles real life quite a bit. Anything done in game is accomplished as a personally set goal. Notch gives no direction on what to do, only instruction in the activities the world allows

Again, this does NOT make Minecraft bad, people aren't wasting their time using it, and if you have fun then by all means continue. I'm just saying that, by a specific definition, it does not qualify as a game

*This example refers to online play. Single player Starcraft is not a sport, though it is a game ;-)

@(Unverified) Eh, I don't think that's the best way to define a game.The fact that you're having to differentiate "game" from "sports" is kind of a problem. Traditionally, games usually involve some kind of competition, goal, etc., but I think it has much more to do with the rules than the end-game. Think about something like The Sims or SimCity. I would consider an endless dungeon crawler to be a game just as much as Mario 64 or something.

@(Unverified)

By a specific definition anything can mean anything. "All games are RPGs because you're playing a role!" is technically right, but just being really minute about details and over-exaggerating a technicality.

Regardless, Notch calls it a game and Mojang a game developer so I'll keep calling it a game. But please, try the new 90 minute demo and judge for yourself if it is a game. I think if you try it you might change your mind.

@(Unverified)

Also, Notch himself was worried there wasn't really enough of a regimented goal, and achievements were the first step he took to fix it. These aren't things like "fall 100 yards" but rather things like "build your first sword" and "upgrade your equipment" which gives the game very specific goals rather than the earlier freeform gameplay if you choose to use them.

@(Unverified)

The goal is survival, then expansion and resource gathering, then creation, basically what it means to be a human in simpler times. This is why it IS the ultimate game.