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I have a strong feeling that this Mineorama convention was a scam. Honestly people, if you see someone hosting a Minecraft convention that isn't supported by Mojang, please just call the location the convention is supposed to be at and ask them. That's honestly the easiest way to see if something is legit. If the owners of the location have no idea what you're talking about then it's probably a scam.

I'm a frequent Steam user and I honestly don't think Minecraft needs to be on Steam. Mojang is doing just fine on their own without making Minecraft available on what essentially is the easiest way to buy PC games. I really don't see any advantages of putting Minecraft on Steam other than being able to broadcast to your Steam friends that you're playing it. If Minecraft were put on Steam I could foresee a lot of other games going ahead and creating Minecraft items for their games as a way to get people to buy, buy, buy, which honestly annoys me. If your game isn't good enough to get sales on it's own, it doesn't deserve to be bought. Using the fame of someone else to increase your profits in cheap and lazy. Also, there is a lot of work that goes into coding Minecraft and being able to make all your mods work together. I have a feeling that adding Steam into the mix would just complicate things even more.

Who wants to bet that the official MineCraft Movie will look worse than 99% of the fan made videos on YouTube?
Also, what's up with the host? He sounds like he's got stuff in his mouth; very hard to understand.

I do NOT like the fact that Mining and Smelting give you XP. I have that feeling that before long, Minecraft is going to turn into an MMORPG like Runescape and WoW.

Quote from Djslash

bug found mining coal gives player experience orbs

Not a bug.

I do not like what they have done to the single player worlds. I think you should be able to start a single player world normally, meaning only you, and then down the road switch the world to allow friends on. Or put in the option to create a TRUE single player world or create a single player server world thing that they now have created.

The thing I like most about Minecraft is all the options that are available to me.

I've played games where the username you picked was the one you were known as in game and in the forums attached to the game. The creators implemented this change and it was mass chaos. Here's my two cents:

Allow players to change their name once they are in game so that they are seen as whatever they like BUT do not allow them to change their Minecraft.net name. How would this work?

If I wanted to log into Minecraft.net and Minecraft I would have to use my name, Ironclad Pen. Once I'm actually in minecraft, I could open up chat type in /change name Ironclad Pen (new name here). After that happened my name wound appear as whatever I chose to the other players and would be the name used in commands. Once I log out of Minecraft, my name would be reset to Ironclad Pen.

Obviously there would have to be some sort of check that Minecraft runs in order to prevent two players from having the same name.

EDIT:
I also think it would be interesting if Minecraft.com would implement a profile system that others could view. With that in place, Mojang could then assign each user a unique code that links their profile/Minecraft.net name to their character. That way if someone comes into your server and is messing stuff up you simply* 'ping' their code, go to Minecraft.com, get their account name and add their account name to your ban list.