I don't disagree... it was merely an observation. The largest-selling game currently available just happens to run on desktop Java... and the consensus I see recently around here is that Desktop Java is dead -- I like to point out that millions of homes are actively using it, even if only to play a game that really isn't dependent on what one would typically think of when they think 'desktop Java'.

Probably a few users of Eclipse out there, as well.

There are some basic C++ and C# Minecraft clients that people made for fun, but the real benefit of Java is how mod-able it is. There's actually a lot of tools for taking apart the minecraft.jar and putting it back together with new features.

And yet had it not been Java you would have said that it could never have succeeded in Java. Somebody is butt hurt.

I think one of the major points that sold the game is that there is (was?) a stripped-down demo of the game that ran right there on the page.

Not sure whether you want to buy? Just press that button there...

Hadn't heard of this, I'm checking it out now, Thank you!

This may get me the rest way into Minecraft... I've been wanting to write an L-system generator for large-scale objects and this sounds like it may be just the ticket.