I got Minecraft (Alpha) yesterday. I played for a few hours. I made a castle, a dungeon, and a house. I realized that's pretty much what the entire game was. It's like Legos, but slower and you can kill stuff. If you're thinking about getting it, the free version is almost exactly the same. The weapons/enemies don't really add anything to the game. Don't waste 9.95 Euros on it.
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Anonymous2011-09-10 19:53
Minecraft 1.8 added 228 bugs to the already huge list of bugs. At this point you can't even smelt anything without the game crashing. ...and it's bugs that just shouldn't be there, like Ender Pearls being duplicated when picked up, but not any other items, leading me to believe that Mojang programmed individual pick-up routines for each item.
I was looking forward to facing the few dangers that were, like the possibility of starving to death, giant venomous spiders, and endermen. Did we get any of that? No, of course not. Unless you play on the hardest difficulty, starvation won't actually kill you, giant spider venom won't kill you either, and the frail endermen die from wading in common water and from sunlight. Anything to preserve the sheltered lives of the noob horde, who still has trouble not setting their own wooden houses on fire.