The shift to beta was made with the promise of improvements and additions to the game, and the first of those come in the form of a server-side inventory system (which will hurt “cheaters” hacking the game to gain unlimited items) along with… the ability to throw eggs.
As the game moves to v1.0, it’s worth taking a look at where it’s come: from its beginnings as a quirky little game released in 2009, it’s since spread exploded in popularity – almost solely through word-of-mouth – to the point where, at time of writing, Minecraft had sold 850,000 copies.
For a game made by one man and maintained by only a handful, with no advertising budget, that’s… well, it’s undoubtedly the success story of the year.
[Notch]
Thistler
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 7:27 AMAwesome. will update at work today. My partner learnt WASD and mouse controls for this game last week. She also dreams in block-form and wants to import fabric swatches for textures. I can’t get near the computer anymore.
nicholas
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 7:49 AMdont play teh beta yet D:
laggy and hell and multiplayer was broken
(no its not my system)
he has promised a fix tommorow…
Julzz
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 10:47 AMBare in mind two of those copies were bought by me after my first log in stopped working, months of emailing notch and i never got a reply, so I bought another copy. -_- Still i had to have my minecraft shot
706-2
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 3:48 PMDoes he have a bloody hand because of low health? If so that’s pretty cool
Daniel Cowan
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 4:31 PMSomething tells me that’s more to do with a custom player skin.
Noble Actual
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 8:55 PMA tremendous amount of credit should be due to the Youtube director Seananners for promoting this game; millions of people watched his minecraft vids which were really the first time the game had been seen en masse.
It’d be really interesting to see the correlation between the release of his videos and the sales numbers of the game.