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How soon it happen, how often, what they said or offered, etc.
There must have been a stampede of VC's and angel investors after the stories of his success in beta were published.
As a redditer commented; I have never played minecraft for fear of never being able to put it down. It's fantastic it's been such a success, I think games like this will always appeal to a certain niche but no one count have predicted it would have been so successful to such a large audience. With that said, I just contend myself with watching the odd youtube video. I dare not get closer.
It's a fantastic game, but you can quickly experience everything it has to offer, and thereafter you can set your own boundaries quite easily. It's really just a great big sandbox with no explicit motivating factors. But if Markus decides to include RPG-like elements some day, we're in big trouble.
As a redditer commented; I have never played minecraft for fear of never being able to put it down. It's fantastic it's been such a success, I think games like this will always appeal to a certain niche but no one count have predicted it would have been so successful to such a large audience. With that said, I just contend myself with watching the odd youtube video. I dare not get closer.
The typical path that many people (myself included) have experienced is: total obsession for 1-2 weeks, followed by rapidly waning interest. It's a fantastic game, but you can quickly experience everything it has to offer, and thereafter you can set your own boundaries quite easily. It's really just a great big sandbox with no explicit motivating factors. But if Markus decides to include RPG-like elements some day, w…
This what I experienced. Mutliplayer is fun though, but I can't play the game properly due to bugs (framerate issues, random disconnects / crashes to desktop). I'm not sure if my local JRE has a problem but I have been doing Java development work recently and I've not had any issues.
I think once the bugs have been ironed out and the development process has been refined (to prevent re-occuring bugs) the game can really grow. Recent updates has shown that new features are being added to the game (including reaching out to the mod community) and by the time of proper release the game will have much more to offer.
He's saying that revenue is in the region $20-30 Million.[1] That's... crazy. Awesome, but crazy. I knew Minecraft was a success story but not to that extent! http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gjrf4/iama_indie_game_...
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Switch search engines :) It's the first result for searching "reddit what does AMA mean" on duckduckgo.
It's the first result on Google for that query too.
Ok, dumb question. I looked on reddit for it, as well as google. No dice. What is an AMA in reddit speak?
As a redditer commented; I have never played minecraft for fear of never being able to put it down. It's fantastic it's been such a success, I think games like this will always appeal to a certain niche but no one count have predicted it would have been so successful to such a large audience. With that said, I just contend myself with watching the odd youtube video. I dare not get closer.
The typical path that many people (myself included) have experienced is: total obsession for 1-2 weeks, followed by rapidly waning interest. It's a fantastic game, but you can quickly experience everything it has to offer, and thereafter you can set your own boundaries quite easily. It's really just a great big sandbox with no explicit motivating factors. But if Markus decides to include RPG-like elements some day, w…
RPG-like elements? Oh dear, that would be disasterous.
As a redditer commented; I have never played minecraft for fear of never being able to put it down. It's fantastic it's been such a success, I think games like this will always appeal to a certain niche but no one count have predicted it would have been so successful to such a large audience. With that said, I just contend myself with watching the odd youtube video. I dare not get closer.
I wish the engine wasn't so inefficient. Disassembly shows some cringe-worthy code. This kind of game should run on netbooks, yet areas are choppy even on high-end machines. The pixel art also starts hurting my eyes after a while. Interpolation would help a lot. While higher-resolution texture packs help, they also risk breaking after updates.
