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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

#11

I never even knew Minecraft had an ending until now.

Sounds like it's time to play it!

Making a server is surprisingly terrible for such a ‘mature’ game.

However playing it with your kid is so excellent. Farming, fighting, building, raiding, landscaping, tunnelling, rowing, flying, whatever.

Pick your path and it is great fun.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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post #2

The writer of the poem, or short story, when you beat the ender dragon in Minecraft, never signed the contract releasing his copyright on it. That means Microsoft doesn't actually own the ending to Minecraft.

However, the author now released it to public domain.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

#15
Certainly there's a world where the author just knew, at some point in this process, "let me just give this giant stressor of a problem to a lawyer"—without losing whatever it means to "be an artist" or opportunities at growth he attributes to only occurring because he was awful at business.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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post #15

Certainly there's a world where the author just knew, at some point in this process, "let me just give this giant stressor of a problem to a lawyer"—without losing whatever it means to "be an artist" or opportunities at growth he attributes to only occurring because he was awful at business.

There definitely was, as they mentioned in the article. They choose not to though, opting instead to just sit on it for a long time I guess? Hopefully they talked to a lawyer before releasing this though, and hopefully Microsoft doesn’t go after this guy.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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post #8

Just want to say, it's definitely not THE most popular game of all time... Candy crush could be a strong candidate, though they probably never use that term on themselves.

Tetris and Windows Solitaire had a multi-decade head start though.

Re: I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

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post #15

Certainly there's a world where the author just knew, at some point in this process, "let me just give this giant stressor of a problem to a lawyer"—without losing whatever it means to "be an artist" or opportunities at growth he attributes to only occurring because he was awful at business.

Such a world sounds unappealing, if not naive and silly - why can't people be motivated by multiple reasons anyways? The author doesn't claim that they are a great at business in the first place.
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