I think now has recently has proberly been the starting point for me to say to people i know that this game is starting to be acceptable to pick up and begin for completly new players with the new content and whatever they're strange plans are around the corner with all the strange anomalies they've been throwing out there to try get us all hyped, could say to wait for 1.8 but i dont think its at an completly unbearable point for people, unless you really are just going to try and be a solo player in a multilayer world.