Is Minecraft worth the $30.00?

[Fenny]

Ok, first of all I wanna hear from those who actually bought the game for that much.
Now, I understand that you can install mods, but REALLY?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por NyÆsirDK1:

....in survival? maybe you guys should try creative.......

No. We like having to gather and deal with mobs. More fun that way. We didn't like the free for all building too much.

[Fenny]

Publicado originalmente por Spawn of Totoro:

Publicado originalmente por NyÆsirDK1:

....in survival? maybe you guys should try creative.......

No. We like having to gather and deal with mobs. More fun that way. We didn't like the free for all building too much.

You have given me all the pros, could you give me the cons about Minecraft, too?

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por A Sexual Penguin:

You have given me all the pros, could you give me the cons about Minecraft, too?

Graphics.

It is programmed in pure Java.

You have to creat a .bat file with a command extention in order to use more then 512mb of ram. If you don't the game can lag, even on vanilla. More so with mods and texture packs.

Vanilla textures are 16bit.

Simple combat.

Wish it had finite water, not infinite.

Crafting anything but simple items requires a wiki for component and/or placement.
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My wife and I are also waiting for:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93066848&searchtext=blockscape
Looks nice, just want to wait untill it is closer to being done and what it is like.

So far it seems a lot like Minecraft.

[Luna]

Well that happened quickly so many replies!

[Nunucz]

I got it for a tenner (euros or dollars, can't remember) back in good ol' alpha-days. Not sure how many (thousands) hours i spent on it before i got bored, but it kept me entertained for a good while.

Worth $30? Absolutely.

edit. Have to add that i didn't mess with mods that much, i always loved the vanilla most for some reason.

[The Sightless Swordsman]

Minecraft is certainly worth $30. Even if you don't have a computer that can run it at a rock solid framerate all of the time. I played it for almost a year with a horrific computer that was 6-7 years old. I didn't stop playing it until a few months ago. Then I got a new computer, and now I've just started playing it again. So yes, It's definitely worth the money.

[DevNSS]

Publicado originalmente por Spawn of Totoro:

Publicado originalmente por NyÆsirDK1:

....in survival? maybe you guys should try creative.......

No. We like having to gather and deal with mobs. More fun that way. We didn't like the free for all building too much.

Good point. When I first got the game, I thought it was a hassle to deal with the mobs and all that, but now I love it!

Publicado originalmente por ABlindSniper115:

Minecraft is certainly worth $30. Even if you don't have a computer that can run it at a rock solid framerate all of the time. I played it for almost a year with a horrific computer that was 6-7 years old. I didn't stop playing it until a few months ago. Then I got a new computer, and now I've just started playing it again. So yes, It's definitely worth the money.

DO IT! Listen to the RoTFCreeper!!!

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por NyÆsirDK1:

Good point. When I first got the game, I thought it was a hassle to deal with the mobs and all that, but now I love it!

I use creative with my 3year old, though. He always wants a purple house with a fire place in the middle, the gets mad when it burns down. :-P I try to warn him, but he never listens.

That and rollercoasters.

[Fenny]

You see, I would buy MC right now, but the US economy sucks ass. I'm sure you would understand about house paments, taxes etc., right?

[dinero]

Dont do it,i had 1000+ hours on minecraft for a while,but then i got bored.You'll ger bored of it after a while,even with mods.
Conclusion?Dont buy it.

[The Sightless Swordsman]

Publicado originalmente por Marisa(♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 15)#BirthdayBitch:

Dont do it,i had 1000+ hours on minecraft for a while,but then i got bored.You'll ger bored of it after a while,even with mods.
Conclusion?Dont buy it.

It took me a year to get bored of it. I took a 3 month break, and now I'm playing it again and it's just as fun as I remember. Don't listen to Marisa.

[Marble]

I spent a lot of time on some multiplayer servers happily building away. Certainly got my moneys worth of fun out of it :)

[Rubik748]

Nope.

[The Sightless Swordsman]

Publicado originalmente por rubik748:

Nope.

Mind explaining why?

[Rubik748]

Publicado originalmente por ABlindSniper115:

Publicado originalmente por rubik748:

Nope.

Mind explaining why?

1. The way you have to find a multiplayer server. There is no server list, you gotta find an IP manually on the net.

1.b. Hosting a local multiplayer. The way you have to set it up is annoying. And even when done right it wouldn't always work and you have to find one of those programs on the net that probably has spyware on it.

2. So I get the game, think of building an old map level from an N64 game (and boy did I spent time on it). But after doing so much I kept getting the thought I was just wasting my time and it wouldn't really work. Then the thought of the multiplayer problem kept haunting me in my map making.

3. Lack of variety. Again this puts me off bothering to finish that map.

3.b. Mods. Not everyone will use them. Not everyone knows how to use them. Not everyone can join a game without them. And if I remember right, not all servers allow certain mods.

4. The way the game is advertised online via the fans. There is something just not right with any of it. They make it out as if everyone should just buy it because they did. Well I don't do that sort of thing. And then that Minecon thing. Just a money maker to me.

The funniest thing I find here is that I played an unpaid for version before the paid version. And it had more options in it and I thought the paid version did not require this messing around with multiplayer things.