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Can Minecraft Change the Gaming Industry?

Posted by Soulskill on from the can-it-kill-dlc dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Is Minecraft really changing the gaming industry fundamentally? This author certainly thinks so, and even goes so far as to consider Minecraft's world manipulation a paradigm shift along the lines of 3D-gaming during the early '90s. 'Every block in the game is available to pick up and reallocate. We can tear down and build up. The neat thing is that future games does not need to be as liberal, but they will need to consider how they can make the environment a hell of a lot more manipulable. Now, this is quite a bit too simplified and the vast majority of games must not feature a shovel worthy of digging to the center of the earth, but giving the user power over everyday things (still in game worlds) will be a worthy challenge to consider.'" Minecraft may give us power over everyday things in the real world, too.

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  1. Re:No. Randomly generated content doesn't work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not is adding village and NPC generation in a future patch. Don't confuse "not added" out of time constraint or no desire for "doesn't work". Combat is getting revamped. Buried, abandoned ruins are a work in progress that Notch has been revealing screenshots of.

    Minecraft is getting there.

    Time constraint? Wrong. Notch and co. have had an absurd amount of time to do something interesting with Minecraft and haven't. It's strictly the "no desire" part. The last time Notch had a desire to put any effort into Minecraft was approaching an entire year ago (the Halloween Update). The only reason Notch is working on anything at all right now for the game is because Terraria has thoroughly embarrassed and shamed him into doing so in hopes of bringing back some of that playerbase. Without Terraria, you'd still be getting the same awful non-patches every four months. Minecraft fans should be thanking the Terraria devs, buying their game and donating money for their work in not only producing their own superior game, but apparently for producing the first actual Minecraft content patch since last October.

    But even that won't stop the Adventure Update from being a buggy, half-assed, unfinished and abandoned mess like everything else in the game. Watch.