Minecraft has gone gold

@DevilSei

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@The Aquacharger
Amazing and addicting. It's the most productive version of crack ever.
5/5

@Special Agent Steve

A game going gold does not mean it's complete. It should mean that the game is as bug free as possible and in a state worthy of charging people, but this is minecraft.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

That's why in my head it's been a released retail product for a long time. It's not a beta if you pay for it and get free updates for life.

@PointlessPuppies eeyup, at this point the game is a weird creative sandbox game with rpg elements added to it, it's a strange game. It's almost as if Notch did not even know what it was going to be in the first plac- oh wait.

@PointlessPuppies I keep automatically reading your comments in an upperclass English accent. It's just phrases like "hilariously incompetent" that trigger it. Please tell me you have a white moustache and a bowler hat.

@Hank Hill
I have 10 of each, I'll have you know

*sip*

dohohoho

@Hank Hill

A Texan talking in an upper-class British Accent? Makes more sense than Pointless's post.

@Hank Hill

Dangit Bobbeh.

@PointlessPuppies
Sadly we know that's not the case. Journalist will likely disregard the complete lack of optimization I know Notch has ignore, because that's his MO.

Again Notch proves he has no idea how actual software development works.

@dsp4

Notch doesn't have a damn clue how to run a software company. This isn't really debatable. He Homer Simpson'ed his way into notoriety by breaking his authentication / store / homepage server and deciding not to fix it for a weekend while people played the game. His success is in spite of himself.

He doesn't know how filesystems work. Look at the laughable original level storage design. It's perfectly fine for a quick prototype, but not for real development. Fortunately, someone in the community built a mod that he copied from that wasn't quite as badly designed. (Or, rather, was a better implementation of his bad design)

He doesn't use sensible data structures. He's building a voxel 3D world, but using a 2D anisotropic data structure. As a result, if you want to change the height of the world, the RAM usage scales *LINEARLY* with max height, instead of with actual USED space. That is *TERRIBLE* design.

That's not even getting into the "game design" issues. I'll just say one thing there, "Endermen".

As for: "because you "know" how software development works and didn't manage to work on a project as successful as Minecraft?"

I've worked on several projects that have had more users *daily* than Minecraft has had *total*. So, no, not really. I'm just annoyed that people with no real understanding of software design & implementation keep leaping to defend a guy who's pretty good at building quick prototypes of interesting ideas, but does not have the experience or education to *lead* a complex project like this, let alone run the company at the same time.

Minecraft is fun.

Minecraft is *not* well designed, or implemented.

These are two *completely separate* things. We don't have to dislike the game to recognize that Notch is in fantastically over his head. It's not hate, it's not anger. It's frustration at seeing rather obvious design decisions flubbed due to inexperience and, frankly, hubris.

@pokeman7452

Which, as linked to and said, is pretty much what you'll get come friday - with minor tweaks.

@Kayonesoft

You don't understand gaming terminology, do you?

"Going gold" means the final code of the game has been done, and the gold master has been pressed, and is being sent off for replication. For a digital release game such as this, it just means the game is finished, and ready to be released as a final, retail version.

@DarknessBear

I may get flamed for this, but I think Metacritic does the biggest disservice to video games. I understand the significance of placing a number value on a game. However, the number is being taken completely out of context. Not to mention the fact that every site is going to have variances on how they developed that score.

Not attacking you. Just my personal opinion.

@BigJayDogg3

I'm pretty sure his comment was sarcastic.

@Gmail Calendar Rep

Charming.

@Gmail Calendar Rep

Simply stunning.

@Gmail Calendar Rep
Positively marvelous.

@arucious No hence the reason every copy that's out there says BETA on it.

@(Unverified) Tommy Boy quotes?