Minecraft enters Beta on 20th Dec, with price increase & no more guarantee of free updates forever

[Fuselage]

I feel sorry for the people that are buying it after Dec 20th, but really, if you haven't bought it until now, I doubt you're going to.
Unless of course Notch gets proper advertising going and picks up speed in casual gamers.

Hehe, Minecraft on Facebook.

I'm planning on waiting until it is a finished, full-priced product before I buy it.

But, that will just cost you more...
Why not do it while it's cheap and get all the updates for free?

It's not finished yet and I have no interest in using Paypal at all. Ever. That and there doesn't appear to be any official documentation or tutorials around how to actually play the game so if I actually wanted to get heavily into it I would have to trawl around a bunch of wikis and websites in order to learn how to play, which I don't want to do.

Well I reckon the best way to learn how to play is to survive 3 nights in alpha.
You are already a pro if you do, Thats how I learnt, No tutorials, No help.

 

[number2301]

I feel sorry for the people that are buying it after Dec 20th, but really, if you haven't bought it until now, I doubt you're going to.
Unless of course Notch gets proper advertising going and picks up speed in casual gamers.

Hehe, Minecraft on Facebook.

I'm planning on waiting until it is a finished, full-priced product before I buy it.

But, that will just cost you more...
Why not do it while it's cheap and get all the updates for free?

It's not finished yet and I have no interest in using Paypal at all. Ever. That and there doesn't appear to be any official documentation or tutorials around how to actually play the game so if I actually wanted to get heavily into it I would have to trawl around a bunch of wikis and websites in order to learn how to play, which I don't want to do.

It really isn't a very complicated game. Get shelter, build tools, mine coal, iron, gold, diamonds and redstone. Build a few things.

Plus the Wiki is very good and fills the role of a manual/tutorial quite well.

If you thought you might ever enojoy it I'd get it now while its cheap and they keep adding things to keep you going back to it. Once its full price unless its got a hell of a lot more content I don't think it'll be worth it.

 

[SuperDash]

It really sucks. I was going to get Minecraft for my birthday (the 20th) and that's the day they decided to beta it.

I convinced my dad to buy it on the 19th though, on the condition I wouldn't play it until the 20th.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

It really sucks. I was going to get Minecraft for my birthday (the 20th) and that's the day they decided to beta it.

I convinced my dad to buy it on the 19th though, on the condition I wouldn't play it until the 20th.

Ha! My birthday's the 16th!
Anyways, cool compromise.
Have fun with it in a week!

 

[Sixcess]

I hate the idea of a story. Maybe, if it's implemented in an almost abstract way and doesn't explain everything, but I hope I never see an NPC standing with a '!' over his head, waiting to drop a load of quest text on me. Every other game does that. Minecraft has got this far without having to.

 

[gigastrike]

I hate the idea of a story. Maybe, if it's implemented in an almost abstract way and doesn't explain everything, but I hope I never see an NPC standing with a '!' over his head, waiting to drop a load of quest text on me. Every other game does that. Minecraft has got this far without having to.

The story is probably only going to be in the rumored "adventure mode", where the game becomes a linear hack-and-slash. But yeah, I hope they don't explain too much too. Part of the game's charm was that sense of discovery, and the feeling that there is always something cool out there beyond the horizon.