Minecraft XBLA to get card-based retail release

I want Minecraft (XBLA) so badly =-) …can’t wait to have it.

why? it’s completely pointless. I don’t get the appeal of it at all. I wouldn’t even call it a game.

“I don’t get the appeal of it at all.” Yeah? Just cause you don’t doesn’t mean other feel exactly the same.

One of the only things thats keeping Minecraft going right now is the sheer amount of mods and user generated content, adventure maps etc that gets pumped out daily.

Now im not 100% but im pretty sure that the XBLA version is going to have neither of those. I just don’t see this version having the legs that the main game has. Like the phone versions, its alright to punch some trees and make a house but theres nothing beyond that.

@2 survive, build a home, gather resources, build gear, explore, search for endgame resources, cooperate with friends or pvp with others, build portal to another dimension, fight dragon. Just surviving can be quite a challenge at times.

A lot of other ‘games’ have far less to do than there is in Minecraft. Sounds like you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.

Surely the more important question here is why is Game getting preferential treatment you can get a 1600 special edition points card for minecraft as long as you want to spend money in Game for it. There are plenty of indy retailers out there who dont get the special editions of this that or the other because a deal has been struck with Game the little specialist retailers could do with a hand as well Microsoft et all

i freely admit i don’t really know what Minecraft is but what i can tell you can just build things … bit like Garrys Mod and everything is blocks n stuff, and that’s about it! I know for a fact i’m missing something but i don’t know what.

What i dont get is the price point for this game, 1600 MS points, if i dont recall wrong this will be the first game to have this price tag, therefore i wonder what is the main reason for this, at least i think of a couple of arcade games that did deserve the same price tag, just for the sheer amount of content and the quality of the game, but they went with the 1200 price point; Dont get me wrong i dont hate the game or anything, problably i will get it for sure, nontheless it seems a pretty curious situation for me.

its notch hes greedy and corrupt, he will destroy gaming if he floods the industry with his destructive corporate games

@8 the PC version is £20 atm that would be 2400msp so its cheap by comparison