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Re: I'm Leaving Mojang

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Anderkent wrote: post #212
TeMPOraL wrote: post #136

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Yes, but for the first time ever, we've reached the theoretical capacity to change that. What's funny (for some definitions of fun), we will actually need to do that - given how our current economy pushes automation to replace humans everywhere, we can either accept that people should be allowed to live and thrive without having to earn for the living, or we'll see a massive increase of poverty.

And the way you'd work on implementing that change, would be, wait for it... Make a ton of money, and sponsor relevant research / lobbying efforts. You definitely won't make it happen by being a fisherman.

I agree.

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Post by [deleted] »

jokoon wrote: post #222

He sounds depressed and frustrated. All I see is bad emotions in all that. With all the money he has, he could at least try to share or expand his passion in some way. It's true that he's lucky, you sense the modesty, that he doesn't want to be perceived as talented. But even if that's true, he could at least try a little bit more. I mean he seems content with his work, but if I had such fame, at least I'd try to use…

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Post by TruthSHIFT »

clarkevans wrote: post #250
Arjuna wrote: post #244

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"I'm sure there are many here that dream of having their idea be a huge success [...]" In the broader picture, I am struggling to understand some of the opinions of this story out there, particularly on HN. What I mean is, I suspect that a majority of us dream of this type of success. We dream of connecting our creative force with financial success, especially when that success would free us to work on practically an…

"I really feel for Notch" I don't. He cashed in and, well somehow wants the sympathy of free & open-source wish-keepers. He's in the money; and that was his choice.

Would Minecraft be in better hands if Notch open-sourced it instead of selling it to Microsoft?

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Post by vlunkr »

rtpg wrote: post #38
wuliwong wrote: post #30

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Is the market spoiled? I no gaming historian but I have been playing games since Atari. There's games along the way that have stuck with me,...pitfall, super mario bros., nhl hockey 93 (i know, super rando list). But I also add to that list Fallout 3. If you correct for better underlying hardware, I feel that games are just as good as ever. I don't have the same fascination with games I had as a child but I can still…

There are loads of great games that come out all the time now, people just forget about bad games of the past. And the "worst" games that we see now are at best mediocre if they were coming out 2 generations ago. The bar has gotten higher because so many high-quality games have been released

It's easy to forget about the bad games. I always think of the snes/n64 as some golden era where all games were great, but when I go to used game stores I remember that it's not true. There are a handful of great games from every era, and hundreds of forgettable ones.

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Post by rjurney »

aeturnum wrote: post #66
jere wrote: post #5

>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 wha…

He's 35 and totally burnt out. Give him time, hopefully he'll do something ambitious.

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Post by krapp »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #169
cperciva wrote: post #144

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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…

Getting off-topic of course, but the key insight here is that Bruce Wayne does NOT really want to 'reduce crime'. Instead, he wants to take revenge on criminals, like the criminals who killed his parents. 'reduce crime' isn't the same as 'fight crime', he requires the FIGHT part, and the revenge part. Yeah, that makes him somewhat less sympathetic, but isn't that what everyone likes about batman these days, the darkn…

Relevant: http://wondermark.com/939/

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Post by chris_mahan »

ido wrote: post #240
chris_mahan wrote: post #215

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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.

Ya dune2 is dos based. Once you get used to it, though, it'll be very enjoyable. You can't rely on the Fremen unless you have 5+castles and send them all at once. Watch out or you'll run out of spice and won't be able to repair your missile launchers.

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Post by cLeEOGPw »

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…

It's sad. But it looks like he simply doesn't have what it takes to be the kind of person we all wish he was. Nobody can't blame him for that. Leading of something big is hard and exhaustive process. Especially for introverts like Notch.

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Post by fooqux »

paulhauggis wrote: post #186
snlacks wrote: post #92

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It's unfortunate that all our greed and crazy fandom keep scaring the great minds away from continuing to push us all forward.

I think it's less the greed and crazy fandom and more a new generation of people that feel they are entitled to everything and anything they want and if they don't get it, start an online witch hunt. There are numerous examples of this in the past 6 months and in Notch's case, it happened with EULA and 3rd party server support. A community that supports this sort of behavior wouldn't have my support either. I don't b…

This is just what happens when you sell 54 million copies of your product. Granted, I'm not exactly entrenched in the Minecraft community, but I'm guessing it's just the usual case where the vocal minority start getting uppity. Whenever you have a group that large, there will be some bad apples.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, however. There comes a point when the amount of vitriol you're receiving isn't worth the success.

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Post by erikb »

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…

I would say most people aren't cut out to get hate from millions of people for stuff they didn't do, and that's basically what being public comes to.
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