Notch bought Amnesia!

[Bek]

The game is nothing more than a poor man's level editor for people who lack the patience, or intelligence to learn to create their own worlds via a proper means.

The fact that this even fills a niche should be depressing.

You sir fail at logic. It's fills a niche like other games like tetris fill a niche, it fills the creative and destructive desires of the brain.

Who would have thought that a simple game where you could have fun creating/destroying stuff as complex as you want would appeal to quite a few people? What would the average person have more fun in.... Minecraft? Or the UDK?

It's all about effort vs reward.

And before you start saying minecraft is for dumb people, watch the youtube video where someone creates a working CPU in minecraft, that can do simple calculations like the Fibonacci sequence..