Practically every game you buy these days builds on earlier games. There's nothing inherently wrong with taking MC's concepts and making them your own. FPS games were once known as 'Doom-clones', but that doesn't mean the genre has no right to exist and should've ended with Doom.

Just figured I'd give my opinion on the matter.

Here's another: wow, does FortressCraft look ugly. It seems someone just applied all the graphical effects, textures and models they could without a single thought about style or coherence

Also, Fortresscraft isn't a ripoff, it's a different game based on the same concept as Minecraft. You don't see people flaming Diablo-clones like Torchlight do you? No, because Diablo doesn't have the rights to the concept behind it. It's the same with Minecraft, Fortresscraft and all the other "Minecraft-clones" out there.

Dwarf Fortress is more robust in alpha than Minecraft is in beta, oh yeah and it's free. Paying for a game in alpha/beta doesn't sound like a very good deal to me, honestly.

I bought Minecraft in alpha too, but I won't argue that it was a "great deal", especially with how slow the development has been.

MC already bores me, and ets face it now it has 1mil sales wh would notch be motivated to keep working ? Hes rich, and the fact there is work on another game "scrolls" MC will update even slower.

MC already bores me, and ets face it now it has 1mil sales wh would notch be motivated to keep working ? Hes rich, and the fact there is work on another game "scrolls" MC will update even slower.