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So what? Maybe it wasn’t a game in 2009. It was blatantly unfinished at that point, so this is hardly an issue.
by YurgenJurgensen 2y ago
So what? Maybe it wasn’t a game in 2009. It was blatantly unfinished at that point, so this is hardly an issue.
- pavlov 2y agoBefore Minecraft became a game, what was it?
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoExactly what it claimed to be: An alpha/beta test for a game.
- _aavaa_ 2y agoAlpha/beta is an arbitrary line in the sand drawn by the developers. Notch could have woken up one day and decided that the state the game was in was final and call the game done. If you weren’t told it was an alpha game you’d have no way of knowing. It sold a million copies while in alpha/beta, more than most other games ever made. The distinction between “alpha/beta test of game” and “game” is a distinction without a difference, especially for all the people buying it.
- netdevnet 2y agoYou are splitting hairs here. An alpha/beta of a game is a game too
- _aavaa_ 2y agoAll three of those things were added in Sept-Nov of 2021. By January 2021 the game had already sold >1 million copies. It was absolutely a game at that point, ask anyone who played it. Being blatantly unfinished doesn’t matter, it would have remained a game even if he never ended any of those features.
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoThis is a straight-up lie. Hardcore and the Ender Dragon were added in 2012, in the patch that would become 1.0.0. Score was added in 0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST in 2009 (https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_Classic_0.24_SURVIVAL_TEST https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_Classic_0.24_SURVIVAL_...). Do you have any examples that aren’t outright fabrications?
- _aavaa_ 2y agoI’m not engaging further if you go straight for accusations like this