WARNING: THIS IS A RANT! Ok, so if you launched Minecraft this morning inside the U.S., you saw news of "Minecrate" in your launcher news feed available to those willing to cough up $30.00 (US). Click on the link to the website and find a slick page design to make you drool for what inside the "Box" though you won't know until you pay for and get one… Now I have subscribed to "Lootcrate" before, and its not as great as it lets on, (the best things I ever got was a cool t-shirt, and a Minecraft keychain that broke after the first use… definitely not worth $30.00) so I am not too enthusiastic for this novelty sale. Now, I can't really see paying as much as what the game costs for a box of cheap crap… Beside that point… I am a bit miffed for the embarrassing way that Mojang has decided to "use" the Minecraft "launcher news feed" in the first place. For the past six months to a years, I have not seen one single line about snapshots, release dates, company news other than sales related bulletins or "security updates" (thank-you Microsoft). Hell, there is more posted here on reddit for Minecraft news than in the launcher, and most of it is gleaned off of Dinnerbone and other Mojang employee's tweets! Pathetic… really pathetic.