Minecraft Exits Alpha Stages and Enters Beta – No Longer Free

After over a year of development, Minecraft has hit Beta status today. Minecraft is a game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. At night monsters come out, make sure to build a shelter before that happens. The beta version of Minecraft that came out yesterday is more focused on being more polished and adding some new content. The aim is to add proper modding support via a stable API, some kind of non-intrusive narrative to the game to help drive the game experience early on, and a late game goal. There have already been two beta releases: client and server Beta 1.0 followed quickly by client 1.0_01 that was released about an hour later due to some Mac OS stability issues. he beta milestone also marks a change in the license for the game: the line that promises all future versions of the game for free has been removed. This change only affects people who buy the game as of today, so if you got the game when it was in alpha, you will still get all future updates for free. So far 2604506 people have registered and 851300 people bought the game!