You know, it's going to have single-player too with a usual single-time fee only. The subscription kicks in only if you want to play multiplayer.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to this. I'm not very confident in Notch's skills as but I love his ambition, it could really push things forward and I do love Minecraft.
Also, the name is quite simple actually (and I didn't come up with this solution, I read it in Rock, Paper, Shotgun's comments!): 0x10 is a hexadecimal number, and so is c. In normal decimal numbers, they correspond to 16 and 12, respectively. Thus the name of the game means 16^12 which is the numbers of years the game is set after the year 1988. I checked it; it works. Also makes sense. =)







