MineCraft

[ProfTournesol]

Brrrr... it looks worse than Castle Wolfenstein did

[GoOB]

If you despise motivation and competition that are inherent in games, that's fine.

Where did the word despise come into it? I just think of MineCraft as a game that does not need to be any more motivating than it is - A part of a relatively recent shift towards allowing (or forcing, depending upon how you look at it) players to take part in creating their own unique experiences with and through games.

The goal is to exercise your creativity, alone or together with others. If that is not motivating for you, then fair enough. I am quite certain that many MineCraft players would not find the premise of ARMA 2 motivating, myself not included of course.

And I don't know if I agree with you that competition is an inherent part of all games, there are quite a few well established games that are played to just waste time and provide entertainment. Some of them a lot less motivating than MineCraft

[CW001]

Adventure mode ees comingk soon
I think it's an excellent game, building mines n stuff is fuuuuuun!

[IceBreakr]

If I did my calculations correct the authors recieved somewhere around 2,5 million EUR for a game thats currenlty in alpha state? And each new day he gets around 11K new buyers with around 120,000 EUR? kudos... hopefully with that kind of money coming in the game will reach beta one day

[Sanctuary]

The impressive success of this game is interesting, as it proves that priority to gameplay before graphics is not a lost cause even in these times of "fast food gaming".
Same as with Dwarf Fortress for which the developer recieve lots of monthly donations and has an impressive following community, it's beyond "niche" now.

I played a bit with the free Minecraft release the author made during the week his server was overloaded (mostly influenced by those amazing sets of AAR from RPS) , it's really fun for a bit, not yet as interesting for me as Dwarf Fortress that inspired it, but there's a lot of potential.
Especially in the exploration of the massive caves system you can discover when digging randomly.

I guess the major interest for now is online from what i read.

Maybe in a few months depending on how Minecraft evolves with the developers plans i may be tempted to buy it.

[Leopardi]

The point of the game is to play on servers, where people form their own communities and start building villages, sell land etc. Everything is possible, perfect sandbox.

[Shadow.D. ^BOB^]

LMAO Monkey, I dont think i would ever play this. But looking at the couple of videos posted here that house must have taken ages to build. Just to see it all go up in flames was brilliant.... Got some proper weird looks from the girlfriend as i watched that nearly pissing myself laughing.

[mikebart]

I think I could get seriously hooked into this quite easily, so i think ill stay clear of it. Its such a simple idea but i can see how it could become very addictive, apparently the creator banks $350k a day!

[JW Custom]

He did show me this video that made me lol though.

LMFAO

[Jelliz]

Downloaded it on friday, started a little bit, took a break, made some coffee, started it up again, and now its monday.

Addictive game, i mean, REALLY addictive.