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		hartror on March 2, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Minecraft creators’ next project is a strategy gam... The fact this has been announced so early on in the piece and has received such wide publication does not bode well. In all likelihood this game is a couple of years away from release. So it is going to be hard to live up to the expectations that are going to build up in that period (not impossible, see SC2). Then again this could be a calculated risk . .

daredevildave on March 2, 2011 [–]

Well, if Mojang do what they did with Minecraft it'll be out as an early alpha and then they'll develop it from there.

It would be interesting to see how that method works now that they have a million interested users on day one.

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