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asking without malicious intent : is this behavior just attention-seeking for the rich and famous? If Carmack mentioned a new game he was working on every other week people would stop and listen (and it would likely eventually materialize), but with Notch it feels more like "Oh, it's the annual big announcement where he reminds people that he makes games and that he continues to exist.", but the past few of those ann…
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The ultimate example of ripping off someone else's idea, sell it to giant evil corp and profit unbelievably. Then he has to go on years of spirit walks to figure out what is the meaning to being rich, then has to talk about how he is a good person publicly... when all he really has to do is make and release another game and people will try it out, and buy it if its any good.
Tell me more. What's this about stealing ideas? Also, the game was huge success long before it was sold to MS.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181212110808/https://notch.tum...
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Neither does he. He's a hack.
The ultimate example of ripping off someone else's idea, sell it to giant evil corp and profit unbelievably. Then he has to go on years of spirit walks to figure out what is the meaning to being rich, then has to talk about how he is a good person publicly... when all he really has to do is make and release another game and people will try it out, and buy it if its any good.
It’s not a clone of anything, it’s a genre idea that was floating around at the time and his is the version that took off. Sure it wasn’t divine inspiration in a vacuum, but nothing ever is. Predecessors had plenty of time to take off before Minecraft, and did not. Minecraft thoroughly took off before it sold out, I think it was the most expensive game acquisition ever. Minecraft didn’t engage in any sort of shady suppression, people just liked it.
And Notch isn’t an asshole, he’s clearly just some guy who found himself with billions and, like most people, didn’t suddenly become somebody who knows what to do in that role. He did the “rich guy stuff” that every average person would, then he started grasping at what’s next while becoming increasingly aware of himself as the limiting factor. You could say he should let people guide him, but he’s got millions trying and nobody to pick between them but himself.
Who cares man, he’s less evil than just about every other billionaire. The only way Notch is somebody to be pissed off at is if you expected him to be smarter and better than the rest of us just because he’s rich now, and if that’s how you think then the problem is you.
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Tell me more. What's this about stealing ideas? Also, the game was huge success long before it was sold to MS.
Notch credits other indie games like Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer as inspirations https://web.archive.org/web/20181212110808/https://notch.tum...
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The ultimate example of ripping off someone else's idea, sell it to giant evil corp and profit unbelievably. Then he has to go on years of spirit walks to figure out what is the meaning to being rich, then has to talk about how he is a good person publicly... when all he really has to do is make and release another game and people will try it out, and buy it if its any good.
This is just an unnecessarily venomous take. It’s not a clone of anything, it’s a genre idea that was floating around at the time and his is the version that took off. Sure it wasn’t divine inspiration in a vacuum, but nothing ever is. Predecessors had plenty of time to take off before Minecraft, and did not. Minecraft thoroughly took off before it sold out, I think it was the most expensive game acquisition ever. Mi…
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a new engine would be welcome
Minecraft already got a new engine, it was rebuilt from scratch in C++ for the "Bedrock" edition which powers all of the console and mobile versions, and is on PC alongside the original Java version. Unless you mean another new engine after that one, but in any case Notch's code was always a mess so he's probably not the man for that job. I recall Java Minecraft modders having to optimize it themselves because the st…
Also the main reason the Java version is still around, and used as prototype to features that only afterwards land on Bedrock, is how limited Bedrock modding capabilities versus the Java version are.
Only a couple of custom points via JSON files, or JavaScript with limited API surface, instead of the whole engine.
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The ultimate example of ripping off someone else's idea, sell it to giant evil corp and profit unbelievably. Then he has to go on years of spirit walks to figure out what is the meaning to being rich, then has to talk about how he is a good person publicly... when all he really has to do is make and release another game and people will try it out, and buy it if its any good.
Yeah yeah, meanwhile, he's counting the pile of money he made by creating and selling a video game and enjoying life, while you're on HN sulking
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This is just an unnecessarily venomous take. It’s not a clone of anything, it’s a genre idea that was floating around at the time and his is the version that took off. Sure it wasn’t divine inspiration in a vacuum, but nothing ever is. Predecessors had plenty of time to take off before Minecraft, and did not. Minecraft thoroughly took off before it sold out, I think it was the most expensive game acquisition ever. Mi…
nah, he's an asshole: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/online-conduct-leaves... . i'd quote his statements directly but frankly they're disgusting and i'd rather not type them out; check out the article if you're curious.
I'd rather him resurect that space game that was teased a while back.. The premise was something along the lines of the sleep timer had a byte overflow error or something and instead of sleeping 10 years, it ended up sleeping thousands... ( Edit for spelling I hope )