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I'm Leaving Mojang

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Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by zeidrich »

willvarfar wrote: post #99
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w , presumably is the "This Is Phil Fish" video referenced ("talking about Phil is talking about fame"). http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PmT... for the tl;dr.

Got a text summary for the phone users please?

People on the Internet get famous without necessarily trying or asking for it.

Famous people are turned into symbols, and are expected to act a certain way. People stop caring about the fact that they are people.

Famous people are held to a different standard, and their audience feels they are owed something by a famous person. In the case of Notch, for instance, people feel like he owes them his continual support on something like Minecraft, despite the fact that he likes to make little games, and one of his little games happened to explode.

Because people just being themselves on the Internet might result in them accidentally becoming famous, it's not trivial for them to stop being famous, unless they stop being themselves on the Internet.

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by auxon0 »

scottjad wrote: post #86

The other day there was a post about some Doom map viewer Notch had written in Dart. One of the top comments said something along the lines of "This is why we all need to be rich, so we can work on stuff like this." I thought the comment was so sad because honestly, almost no one is going to benefit from a mostly broken Doom map viewer in Dart that's abandoned after a few days. Same with the numerous games he's start…

Stress is a bitch. But given some time, he'll get bored and do something with all that money.

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by Nib »

It's the end of an era...

This may be the last time a post from Notch makes it to HN Frontpage...

We all know what's gonna happen next, microsft is gonna try to messup with the game, and, somehow, it'll end up dead...

RIP Minecraft

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by SunShiranui »

dmpk2k wrote: post #127
willvarfar wrote: post #102

For the interested, Notch didn't enter the current Ludum Dare but thousands of mortal coders did, and they'd love you to go play their games! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/

Unrelated, but maybe he did enter, under a different pseudonym; it's what I'd do in his shoes.

He wanted to enter but didn't manage to get any ideas for his game.

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by auxon0 »

bilalhusain wrote: post #8

Heartbreaking to read what we do to people.

Yeah, but like I said earlier, a bit of rest and some time out of the spotlight and he'll get bored. Then he'll really appreciate it (even if he never wants that light shining on him all the time, again).

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by SuperKlaus »

chubot wrote: post #228

This may be a weird reference, but what comes to mind is John Frusciante leaving Red Hot Chili Peppers at the height of their fame. He quit in the middle of the tour after Blood Sugar Sex Magik, after they became unexpectedly huge. He just wanted to make music and play in small clubs. And he went back to playing guitar by himself and making solo albums. (Also heroin use, but that's a different story). And he rejoined…

Kurt Cobain comes to mind, too.

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by billiam »

krelian wrote: post #29

This whole Minecraft thing has been very interesting to follow. I tried the game a few times and it's not really for me but everything around Notch's story is interesting (I bet their going to make a movie about this at some point). Not everyone can be an entrepreneur and I feel that in this case (on a different scale of course), we basically watched a plausible version of how Apple could have gotten started if there…

"we basically watched a plausible version of how Apple could have gotten started if there was only a Wozniak but no Jobs."

Nailed it.

For my kids sake, I hope they take a little while before they turn Minecraft into a FPS on Xboxlive.

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by swang »

cperciva wrote: post #144
aeturnum wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 wha…

Bruce Wayne's character in batman is always thinking big. He tries to push things in the direction he thinks is right. No, Bruce Wayne is incredibly myopic. If you have billions of dollars and you want to fight crime, the last thing you should be doing is developing fancy equipment so that you can personally go after criminals one by one. If Bruce Wayne truly wanted to use his money to reduce crime, he would be donat…

Mark Zuckerberg tried just dumping money into a school system. Didn't work because the school system was itself corrupt

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by im3w1l »

I bought Minecraft pretty late in the game, but I really liked it. It's a great work. I'm glad for your exit, even though I realize that you quit on a sad note. I wish you joy in your future endeavors.

Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by ido »

chris_mahan wrote: post #215
cmdrfred wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just checked out Dune2, looks good thanks for the recommendation.

Watch out for the big harkonnen missile on the maps with the castle. Enjoy!

It's quite hard getting over the interface these days. Surprisingly enough Warcraft 1 is still very playable.
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