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Its pretty ****in' awesome, the only people who will say otherwise are COD fans who hate nintendo because its graphics suck.

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I have been very out spoken against Mojang the last couple of weeks. I've made quite a few threads addressing balance issues and broken content being pushed aside to code for snowmen and the response I see the most is "It's a beta" or "it's a pre release". Case in point I made a thread stating that the game has become easy and no longer provides any type of challenge therefore there is no challenge in the combat or getting diamonds. The response I got was "It's a pre release it'll be fixed once the actual 1.8 comes out" and behold beta 1.8 came out the next day with nothing addressing those problems.

My problem is this. The tag of pre release or beta is becoming a excuse for the bad game design of mojang. No I don't mean bugs those are to be in any game fallout 3 is a very buggy game even in its released state, it is just the way the game is. However everything in fallout 3 has a purpose or at least some type of reason to be. Minecraft doesn't have this. My problem has been that mojang doesn't develop in a coherent pattern. How does one go from world generation to snowmen? How does one release villages and exp bars which have no use promising that "there will be a use sometime later" . They made slimes and slime balls which really had no use to be here, what do slimes add to the game other than a mix of diversity? The item they drop didn't even had a use for 3-4 months.

Another point is there is no reason minecraft shouldn't have some type of mod support or at least optimization. I think modding support is the biggest let down so far. How do we not have any type of modding support at this stage of development? How many times has notch said he'd work on adding support for modding so that we wouldn't have to twist our arms to try and get mods to work (especially on mac). It saddens me to think that snowmen have been released before modding support. Snowmen which will be boring in a week will be released before modding support despite the fact that mods are what make this game more interesting.

If notch just updated based off of one central idea that had many sub parts we wouldn't have to wait for the next update because we are bored of minecraft. Shallow features only make a game interest for a week or two and then you're back to the old ways of minecraft.

It's as if I bought a CoD game and I found a gun that did nothing except have a message that popped up and said "This gun will do something later, we were too busy developing snowmen".

If you take nothing away from this then at least try to understand that beta/pre release is a shallow excuse for a developer adding features that will one day be nerfed because they're OP or only throw snowballs and are cool for the next week or so. Hey maybe even have the whole patch be designed around a companion mob that nobody used after the first couple of weeks because they hurt you more than they helped you and are no considered an annoyance.