Possibly it's not about the baked-in gameplay anymore. But both day-z and minecraft have rich metagames (is metagameplay a word?) that have developed as a resul

Possibly it's not about the baked-in gameplay anymore. But both day-z and minecraft have rich metagames (is metagameplay a word?) that have developed as a result of both the restrictions and freedoms given to the players. That's one of the reasons that some of the commenters here "don't get it". They've looked for gameplay, and found it lacking, whereas what they should have been doing is creating their own games within the worlds provided.