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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @09:17PM (#8294381)
... and in a month a new game comes out and minecrafters realise this is what minecraft should have been all along ...
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by shiftpgdn on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @11:39PM (#8294800)
A few dozen "this is what minecraft" should have been games have come out in the last few years. Nothing has the staying power of Minecraft.
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by deciplex on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @04:48AM (#8295571)
Eh, can you name one? There are several "Minecraft could have done this as well" games, I guess, but nothing really stands out as anything like a spiritual successor, or whatever. There's Terraria, but that's not quite the same either is it.
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Re:Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang by smackfu on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @09:03AM (#8296333)
Well, that certainly goes in the "potential risks" section, but it hasn't happened yet, and it's been five years.
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