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Quote from Gringo_Starr

Nah, you're missing the point. Minecraft is a completely imaginary world, it doesn't rotate on it's axis or orbit a sun, and as such there is no such thing as North, East, South or West.

It is a completely flat plane, the sun comes up in one direction and sets in the opposite. That doesn't mean those directions are East or West, because there is no East or West. So following real life convention regarding which direction 'up' should be on a map is a moot point.

If it doesn't rotate then it would have a weakened gravitational pull and so, "following real life convention", our character would float off the flat surface of the Minecraft world and never come down.

Or we can just accept that while it's a game, it's a game with a world based on the real world, with compasses and maps and an importance placed on direction. There's no reason not to deal in true north.

The guy has 2,000,000+ purchases of a game he still considers to be in beta.

I don't care how much money he has or how tempted he is by side projects, he shouldn't have branched out in other directions at all until he established dedicated coders and QA staff to the continued development of Minecraft. And he would have to stay with it, himself, for some time, until the new staff gets use to the code and vision. Then he can branch out into other projects and other versions of Minecraft.

It feels like he pawned off responsibility for Minecraft to a brand new hire the first moment he got, and now its backfiring.

And if he really wants to play the "beta" card, in which we serve as the testers, they definitely need to get official forums and processes for bug submission and tracking, and they need to get someone to head up QA and communicate with the testers.

It's so easy to install forum and bug tracking software... as a software engineer, myself, I can't fathom even starting to develop a game like this without having that kind of infrastructure in place first.

What the hell is this thread?

Something gone horribly wrong..

I like to think that Dan had a good point but went about it all wrong, over and over again...