[I would like to preface this post by saying that I still love and somewhat regularly play Minecraft. I am simply talking about the coverage of the game]
Not to long ago, someone post on this site about the amount of coverage for Kinect hacks and Minecraft. However, his post basically boiled down to "I don't like theses things so stop talking about them" and he was given the appropriate amount of shit by the community.
Since then, there has been no new developments on the Minecraft front (can't really speak for Kinect, as I don't keep up with it). Notch posted some screenshots of old unfinished projects that he worked on in the past and a youtube video of wolves which will be added at an undisclosed later date, but that's it.
And yet at least two major gaming sites (Joystiq and The Escapist), have posted front-page articles on both stories, as well as covering Pert Molyneux saying nice things about it.
I understand that Minecraft has become an indie darling and that Notch's rags to riches story is a feel good piece that gives people hope for the future of games, but at what point does covering the thing just become re-blogging the man's Tumblr? Unless there's been a major update, or Notch has made a major announcement regarding it, I don't thing the general gaming populace really needs to know every single little detail about it's progress. At best it's just pandering and at worst it's just a cheap grab for page views.
Minecraft
Game » consists of 33 releases. Released May 17, 2009
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