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ronne

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Minecraft really is a big "you don't know about the current gaming sphere" type phenomenon for most people over 40. If you took the "biggest" games most people think of, at their boom peak, the top 4 probably don't beat minecraft on a random Thursday in 2019.

It's a scale that's sometimes even hard to really grok. And it seems to be sticking around through the generations and every child grows up playing it so I don't really see it going anywhere.

If Hytale can grab even 1% of that base they'll be rich.
 

Goatface

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Minecraft is closing in on 400 MILLION lifetime sales.

This game is basically Minecraft 2, made by the largest player in the existing Minecraft hosting/custom/mod space and has been floating around in development for like 10 years now.

The available pool of players for this game is in another universe relative to most PC games.

minecraft sales don't include the education edition users, there are something like 35 million active accounts.
 

Tarrant

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So, this game is very pretty (for a block game), and combat is much smoother than i had even hoped for... even early on. I wish i had more time to play it tonight, I'm having a good time in it.
 

DirkDonkeyroot

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Started world and walk outside.
Hole in the ground 3 blocks from the stairs. Spend a day cycle gathering rubble, sticks, sap and fiber. Make tools to go mining in the hole. Fall down a pit inside hole and land in the middle of an underground city and get passed around like a twink in a bear party.

10/10 experience
 
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Hateyou

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My kids never got into Minecraft and I’m okay with that.
It’s actually one I like my kid playing, they get really creative and aren’t doing gay ass Fortnite emotes.

Coworkers son became a project manager for a construction company straight out of college and makes fuckin bank at 25 years old. He attributes it to playing Minecraft getting him interested in building things.

It’s a shitty looking, boring sandbox game to us old gamers that like narratives and deep combat/stat/strategy games but it’s great for kids.
 
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Caliane

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yeah, tried a few times, and never could get into Minecraft. Much prefer terraria's far more structured bosses/adventure. or, exploration/survival of Conan exiles/enshrouded/etc.



this, troubled dev, and push to EA would make me expect this to be WILDY unfinished or broken.
But, checking some streamers, etc. they all seem quite positive on it. Perhaps its all frontloaded, and the love will fade quick. Palworld for example. (anyone check back on that recently? any good progress?)


$20 buy in, is pretty cheap as well. pretty easy to justify giving it a shot.
 

Xevy

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I'm fairly deep into the game I think at ~14 hours or so. So far it's kind of half way between Minecraft and Valheim with a lot of the exploration tiering system feeling like Valheim and some of the mechanics and quality of life from Minecraft mods.

I'd say it'd be pretty fun for a family to play through. Maybe some builder types, but for hardcore gamers I think right now it's got a pretty low ceiling, but that's partially intentional due to the main Dev wanting modders to really take the wheel and them only being able to update this for the last two months or so after getting it back from Riot.

I would say it's VERY polished and smooth for EA. A lot of shit in this should probably be ported into base Minecraft (auto suck from chests near crafters and vaulting come to mind). If you're looking for 100+ hours and you're not a "LETS RECREATE KELETHIN" type I don't think you'll find it... yet.

It also has built in modding tools which I haven't dabbled with but I can already see some hopefully easy to implement mods that I'd try to make that could make the game even deeper and more interesting.
 
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