Quote Originally Posted by jssaylor2007 View Post
its honestly one of those things where you dont notice the graphics once you allow yourself to play it for longer than 10 min... I thought it was the stupidest thing ever developed for PC until I sat down and played it for a bit. Its kinda like going back and playing Super Mario. The gameplay is there so you dont notice the graphics. I do see where scribs and NYS are coming from though, if you are going to make a game in this day and age why not polish the graphics? But the minecraft staff didnt and it works so I wont complain.
I don't like the game play either. I understand the concept and after an hour of building different things it grew old. My main point is that this is one of those games you shouldn't have to pay for.

Quote Originally Posted by mag36 View Post
Yeah agree with Tentoes, but mind you this game was made by one guy in about a year using Java. So you cant expect intense graphics on a program like that. Survival mode is really fun. And you do begin to look past the graphic real quickly.
The guy must have done something right to got 497844 to have people to buy an alpha game at 9.99 EUR = 13.7981 USD

13.79 x 497844= 6,865,268.76

Not to bad of a paycheck worth a year's worth of work
What he did right was release a product to a market of nerds that love the feeling of nostalgia with games. It's the same reason 8bit cartoons are popular. He made it 9.99 EUR so you don't think you're paying $10 but in reality you might as well piss that .01 EUR away. He's smart and has a solid product.

Solid Product + Solid Business Plan + Solid Market = Solid Gold