91–100 of 778 posts
There's and ending to Minecraft? There goes my perception (acquired over the years of reading bits and bobs about it) of it being an endless world building game.
That's a lot of anger, negativity and bitterness, and entitlement (one of the game's creators for writing the ending text?). Reminds me of the kid on the cover of the Nevermind album and other people that are kinda tangentially connected to something massively successful, but not connected enough to benefit materially, and they let that define who they are and ruin their lives. Could have been a neat personal story,…
Exactly the picture/cover/person I thought of while reading this (nicely written but still a) rant.
That's a lot of anger, negativity and bitterness, and entitlement (one of the game's creators for writing the ending text?). Reminds me of the kid on the cover of the Nevermind album and other people that are kinda tangentially connected to something massively successful, but not connected enough to benefit materially, and they let that define who they are and ruin their lives. Could have been a neat personal story,…
How can you call asking for nothing entitlement?
20000€ would in most European countries be a pretty good compensation for about 3 months of work, after taxes. It doesn't seem unreasonable on the face of it.
so I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was If he said that in an e-mail, doesn't that constitute a written agreement to transfer copyright to Mojang?
For usage rights, probably so. But a transfer has stricter requirements in most countries, and it doesn't mean he agreed to all the other clauses in the contract that he hadn't even seen at the time.
That's a lot of anger, negativity and bitterness, and entitlement (one of the game's creators for writing the ending text?). Reminds me of the kid on the cover of the Nevermind album and other people that are kinda tangentially connected to something massively successful, but not connected enough to benefit materially, and they let that define who they are and ruin their lives. Could have been a neat personal story,…
How can you call asking for nothing entitlement?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happened to him? The story mentions vegas but is otherwise vague
He got incredibly lonely, lost all his friend, and got ostracized over posting some alt right and Q shit on twitter.
It seems to me he's reasonably happy, especially considering his circumstances were far from happy before Minecraft - his parents were ex-addicts, he had himself dropped out of school, his father had a mood disorder and relapsed into drug use and killed himself just weeks after the first big Minecon.
I feel for the guy, making a living off of art is difficult. However, with an extensive email chain explaining the story was written as the ending of Minecraft, even going into detail about how it was to be displayed in game, an agreed upon offer (if a bit vague), and then an exchange of funds - with no immediate attempt to return said funds. I'm no lawyer, but that sounds a lot like a legally binding agreement. > So…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you have a case, especially one presumably of this profile, then many firms would take it for no up front cost with an expectation of some cut of the damages.
But he doesn't have a case, does he? He wrote the piece _for_ Minecraft and accepted the payment as such.
And of course, even though he said he didn't approach anybody, the speculative part of my brain actually thinks he informally may have done so and received such advice (that he didn't have a case) and conveniently omitted as much from the narrative.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Making a server is surprisingly terrible for such a ‘mature’ game. The official Minecraft server software is exceptionally unoptimized, but a number of independent open source forks exist, some of which can substantially improve performance. Unless you're talking about maintaining the community aspect, which is definitely not so easy... :) For anyone getting into Minecraft for the first time, be sure to check out t…
I don't see why it can't be as easy as Multiplayer -> Host -> Select World. The average player shouldn't need to download a server jar, accept a eula, edit the config, run the jar with command line arguments for ram allocation, and set up port forwarding just to play block game with their friends.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can you call asking for nothing entitlement?
Is he asking for nothing? Half of the post is about how Mojang got millions then billions and he got nothing. If he's not asking for what he considers to be his share of the pie, then I don't know what the whole post is about.