For those of you who don't know, terraria is a 2D platformer where you can build, dig, and explore. Its similar to Minecraft in many ways and I think the audience for it will be almost exactly the same.

No, not really. They are different enough for people to play both without any major overlapping. Besides, Minecraft has already sold 2 million copies. That's million bucks. It'll be very hard for Terraria to match that, even more surpass those sales.

I'd love to try Terraria, but I don't think it'll be able to get my attention for as long as Minecraft does. Sure, it's far more "interactive", with levels and magic and whatnot, but in Minecraft you can really create a world that feels alive. I guess it's because of the 3D perspective, but Terraria's worlds seem "flat" to me. No pun intended.

Wasn't a fan of what I saw of it. It's interesting but feels like it basically removes the parts of Minecraft I love so won't be getting it myself. 

Terraria is going to have to cover a lot of ground to challenge Minecraft. At least, personally. Both Minecraft and Terraria don't really "show" very well in the first hour or two of playing. Once I figured out crafting and a few other things, Minecraft really took hold of me. Until then, I wasn't a huge fan of it.

Terraria kind of has the same vibe. I booted up the game a bit last night and wasn't hugely impressed. I think it mostly had to do with the control scheme being a little strange (W = up which, ok, makes sense, but you still need to hit space to jump. I'll have to rebind that stuff.)

After watching at some Terraria videos on Youtube, it looks like a remarkably deep game once you get into it. Apparently there's "floating islands" and unique items and... yeah. Now I'm wishing I'd spent more time with it last night. Problem is, anyone who's already into Minecraft will have gotten over that hump and completely forgotten those first few minutes where you're just wondering what the fucking hell you're supposed to do.

As neither is subscription based, at this point I don't think it matters if people start playing Minecraft to a lesser extent.

I think it's likely people who try out Terraria, and if they like it, move on to Minecraft but I doubt Terraria will "steal" players from Minecraft.

Nah, Terraria seems like a gateway-game for Minecraft, for people who don't want to invest their lives but still enjoy the open-world it offers.

The stuff you can build in 2D is too limited compared to the 3D stuff you can build in Minecraft.

Is Minecraft still a thing that people play?

Terraria seems like a whole different type of game. Sure it has clear cut inspirations from minecraft, but it looks like it has a very large focus on combat, while minecraft has very little combat at all.

As long as it's childish and pointless then yes, it can steal some of the minecraft audience for sure.

This game is basically nothing like minecraft other then theres digging and you can build things, its more focused on combat the minecraft is. Your looking for better weapons to fight harder monstors and go deeper in the earth, minecraft you see every type of monstor in the first 30 minutes of play where this has boss battles and vendors. The building is only there to draw in vendors and help you get stronger, its basically what would happen if you combines minecraft's digging and building with castlevania's combat.

It has more room to grow then minecraft dose in my opinion.

Well, it stole me, that's for sure :) Awesome game!

Only the early game feels really Minecraft-y. Once you start fighting bosses with other people, it starts feeling more like Metroid mixed with World of Warcraft.

I think at the very least it'll hold my attention until Minecraft gets some time to patch up and release.  This isn't a bad thing - I've kind of gotten Minecraft-fatigue myself, having explored a lot of what I can do in that game and tested my limits.

This game is tits. I haven't played Minecraft in ages, but I don't expect to go back any time soon now that I have this.

I rather like the music

Is Minecraft still a thing that people play?

Not particularly, no... They both have their virtues. I still play both.

Is Minecraft still a thing that people play?

No. The minecraft audience is already huge, I think minecraft players might play both.

Maybe a very small number but I don't think it's a real threat to it.

I think Terraria is a very real threat to Minecraft if the creator continues to update it to add more features and improve functionality. I don't think it could ever overtake Minecraft, but I wouldn't be surprised if it steals away a significant chunk of the player base.

If there is one thing that Terraria has over Minecraft it's that it has an real level of progression outside of "I have more stuff now." and the core gameplay of Minecraft has changed very little since its launch.There's just more to do in in Terraria, and while I think it is a cruder product overall there is always room for improvement and the Minecraft audience is more than ready for something meatier to chew on.

Also it's on Steam, so that helps.

Three of the biggest 'Minecraftians' I know have moved to Terraria, but my guess is that it is only temporary. 

It won't STEAL anyone away from minecraft, I like to think we live in a world where both 3d and 2d games can live peacefully with eachother without stealing each others sales.

I personally think yes it will, but not all of the audience. Alot of people will disregard Terraria as a 2d Minecraft, but in all seriousness, its more than that. A good analysis would be that Terraria is more a RPG with mining elements, wheras Minecraft focuses on mining predominately which leads to building of structures and what not. Terraria has limited building tbh, theres less creativeness since everything is in a 2d plane. 
 
I also like it that your character keeps all the items on him, even if you switch worlds. Theres also PVP in this game, which is intereting to say the least (although this game as a competitive PVP game seems quite amusing) 
 
But yeah, i think this game is very fun, but the question is will i get bored of it? most likely. I mean theres a limit to any game, when you get all the items from Terraria then there isnt much you can do, unless you want to PVP?. Although there will be updates and what not with new thing so i suppose theres things to look forward to.

Bought Terraria recently. Seems a LOT more exciting than Minecraft. Sadly, the world doesn't generate as you advance trough it like in Minecraft, but it has a lot more content. I like both of them but Minecraft gets boring after a couples of hundreds of hours of gameplay. 

I dont think anything can "steal" an audience because people can always just come back to things. That said, I played minecraft an F ton and now I play Terraria! It has way more actual "game" than minecraft had and tons more stuff to discover and explore. 

No. A lot of people play Minecraft simply to build awesome shit, something you can't do in 2d.

I heard a few of my friends quit Minecraft to play this. I personally would rather play this as well if I had to choose, I don't seem to particularly enjoy either though.

                    The stuff you can build in 2D is too limited compared to the 3D stuff you can build in Minecraft.
This can be a gateway drug to Minecraft but not the other way around.


                   

               

the only similarity between minecraft and terraria is mining for ore and material THATS IT there completely different games ones a sand box and ones an adventure game wish ppl would stop sticking them in the same bag because there not at all

Nah just like when a new MMO comes out it may get some peoples attention but people will always play WOW, 

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