>>5493>Minecraft is one of the greatest cons of independent game development ever.This is just a meme repeated by people who hate Notch and/or Minecraft, and never liked it in the first place.
It's a cultural phenomenon with a massive following in multiple generations of gamers. The "Minecraft was ripped off from Infiniminer" is a bullshit argument, games and media borrow from each other all the time, sometimes rather blatantly. Just because infiniminer came first doesn't mean that it should lay claim to the concept voxel based mining/building forever. That's capitalist intellectual property logic. As for Minecraft being "unfinished", that's also bullshit, it's a sandbox game, they could keep adding new features until the end of time, it would never be "finished" in that sense. Some things planned early in development never came to be, but that's just how game development goes sometimes.
> Exile III, Wind & Water Puzzle Battles, Hellsinker, or impressive community open source projects like Battle for WesnothAre you joking? None of these are anywhere near the level of Minecraft.
The only legit criticisms are the selling out to MS and promising that the game could go open source eventually.