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That's silly. If someone said they hated their house, they wanted to move out and it wasn't about the money, would you demand that they give the house away for free?
I'm Leaving Mojang
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He's already invested many years of his life into mojang, why do you think you are in a position to tell him what to do with his money? Markus is 100% free to do whatever the hell he wants with his money and you nor anybody else should place conditions on or make demands on him.
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#63At the opposite end of the spectrum of the startup CEO who's intent on cashing out for fame is Notch, who sold to remove himself from the center of attention.
I think we all believe we could handle the spotlight and the attention and fame that comes with it. But until we're faced with it, we'll never know.
All the best to Notch and thanks for a game that brought many people many hours of happiness and shared experiences.
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#64This is why we can't have nice things. I don't know much about Minecraft or whatever issue Notch is referring to in his post. But I'm always struck by how quickly people snap to emotional argument and response, without thinking about the other side of the question, without thinking about how their response will be read or felt by others. The first step in any dialogue is trying to understand why the other side has sa…
I think it's just simpler than that. The impression I got was not that he left because of hate he was getting, but just because Minecraft got really popular and turned into something much bigger than he expected.
It sounds like he doesn't want to be a part of anything that big - he just wants to have fun hacking on games.
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#66>As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. It has always amazed me how down to earth Notch is. Now, he's going to be a billionaire doing little game jams. It's hard to believe and quite awesome. It's like Bruce Wayne deciding to spend the rest of his life playing with legos.
>It's like Bruce Wayne deciding to spend the rest of his life playing with legos.
I like this image. Bruce Wayne's character in batman is always thinking big. He tries to push things in the direction he thinks is right. The idea that someone would have all the power and decide to play with toys makes me worry about the rest of us. I would like to see people like Notch (creative, thoughtful people) having a say in what the future holds. However, it seems inevitable that after a certain point, you have to choose between living the life you want or ceeding at least some of your time to the whims of the masses of the public.
Someone else mentioned Jobs and Wozniak - Notch feels like Wozniak and Mojang has no Jobs. How can we keep the Wozniaks and Notchs of the world involved in making decisions in a way that keeps them happy? We don't want to have to choose between scale and creativity.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's already invested many years of his life into mojang, why do you think you are in a position to tell him what to do with his money? Markus is 100% free to do whatever the hell he wants with his money and you nor anybody else should place conditions on or make demands on him.
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> pearjuice 10 minutes ago:
> Go to bed, Markus.
Are you seriously suggesting I'm a sockpuppet for Markus Persson?
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#68>As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. It has always amazed me how down to earth Notch is. Now, he's going to be a billionaire doing little game jams. It's hard to believe and quite awesome. It's like Bruce Wayne deciding to spend the rest of his life playing with legos.
I never considered Bruce Wayne much of a tinkerer. More like Tony Stark playing with Legos.
Or just more like Tony Stark from IM1/IM2 movies, period. He has a lot of money, but he basically outsourced every day-to-day company decision making somewhere else (up to making his secretary a CEO) just so that he could do what he really loves, i.e. high-tech tinkering and saving the day (and drunk parties).
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#69Basically "I was successful once, it was awful". Sometimes I wish he would have just stuck with Minecraft as the only developer and stayed away from the spotlight. Plenty of very popular game creators have done so (Icefrog, Toady One). I really enjoyed the times back when Minecraft was just getting popular and you could tell Notch was adding features that he genuinely enjoyed (Redstone update, for instance). Then he…
>Basically "I was successful once, it was awful".
This seems to be a theme. The guy who had the frontpage the other day, flappy bird, etc. Must be nice to have the cash entitlements to "keep it real." I can't blame him, I think money just becomes arbitrary numbers after a certain point. Minecraft has probably grown to a point where its just only going to get smaller in the future and in a few years be a fun little nostalgia piece for the tweens today who will be in college, the same way we dusted off the NES when I was in college.
Obviously, there's something about the nerdy personality that wants none of this, but it really makes me wonder about guys like Gates or Carmack or Zuckerberg or Jobs who thrive in these environments. Are they the rare ones or are guys like Notch the outliers?
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#70Full text of post until the site becomes less overloaded: ------------------ I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it’s changed games. I never meant for it to do…
What a long strange trip it's been. So long Markus and get ye back to javagaming.org for the next 4k!