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Minecraft To Officially Launch 11/11/11

Posted by Unknown on from the cia-plot-to-keep-the-nerds-down dept.

tekgoblin writes "Minecraft has currently sold about 2 million copies and it's still only in beta. However, the developers have just announced that the game will officially launch on 11/11/11. The date 11/11/11 was actually chosen because it falls on the same date as other various game releases, the most notable being Skyrim."

3 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:So, uh... by lee1026 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nov 11 is a holiday in most of the western world, as it is based on the ending of WWI in 11/11/1918.

  2. Obligatory XKCD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://xkcd.com/861/

  3. Re:Worse yet... by Senes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Personally I think this is just a sign of changing times rather than Notch not knowing what he's doing. In the days of packaged software you had an alpha you tested yourself, a beta your close friends tested, and then a "final" release and that was it. This new style of development involves continually adding features until the developer gets tired of the work; we don't have to press things onto hard media and ship things out to retailers now so there's no more solid cutoff on how long you can continue working.