Minecraft Goes Gold for MineCon Release
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After almost 3 years of being available to play in different forms, Minecraft is now finally a finished, polished gaming product ready for release out of beta.
Minecraft developer Notch has finally tweeted that the game has gone gold and will be released before the week is out.
Now, in reality, this won’t change much for Minecraft players who have followed the game through its innumerable beta versions (most recently the significant Minecraft 1.8 Adventure Update and 1.9) and have already paid for the privilege. However, the full release of Minecraft as a product could open up this runaway indie success story to a whole new range of gamers, building on the 4 million blocky builders already enjoying the game.
Of course, just because Notch and the Mojang gang have a product that they feel confident in fully releasing, that doesn’t mean that this is the end of the story. Not by a long shot.
Minecraft‘s rampant success has been forged on the power of imagination. In a game where there are no quantifiable goals, the player must make their own fun and their own objectives with the tools put in their hands. As Mojang dream up new and better ways to build – fuelled by the collective imagination of millions of players – those tools are only going to get more sophisticated.
The finished game is due to for its grand unveiling at the first dedicated Minecraft convention in Las Vegas this weekend. MineCon has been sold out for weeks now and fans will flock to the Nevada Desert’s shining jewel in order to revel in all things Minecraft.
Once the finished product has been released, Mojang are bound to continure tinkering away with it, bringing new Minecraft monsters, materials, craftable items and environmental effects to their appreciative audience.
Are you headed to MineCon? Would you go if you could? Or is the next big construction project enough to fill that blocky craving?
