tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580029372570359363.post1375820024653857676..comments2024-01-22T03:30:48.482-05:00Comments on Game Genus: Minecraft: Is Notch crazy?Stratagermhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16674545127540735737noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580029372570359363.post-40503496282393089112013-02-01T03:18:41.974-05:002013-02-01T03:18:41.974-05:00Well I used to own minecraft on pc loved the game....Well I used to own minecraft on pc loved the game. when that agreement was signed I deleted the program as he obviously does not care enough about his people. I don't own pc anything anymore I run max vista was y I switched to apple I will not buy Xbox because Microsoft wants you to pay them to s*** on you. so the game picked Microsoft over ps3. ps3 is now the largest selling system with ps4 talking about releasing nov 2013Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04225688564182519017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580029372570359363.post-13457258430243399142011-10-26T10:24:47.395-04:002011-10-26T10:24:47.395-04:00I somewhat agree. I agree that they should finish ...I somewhat agree. I agree that they should finish minecraft then think about a new game. Otherwise I disagree with you. I think xbox exclusive is a good idea. Not just because i have an xbox either. I also have a wii. The store on the wii isn't all to great. We wouldn't get DLC. Microsoft is also very strict about multiplatform games and it has to follow very specific rules. Outside of the PC we'd have a stable framerate. Also greifing can be fixed with a few lines of code. So i mostly disagree with you. Also on the wii, would you like to swing the wii remote 4 times a second to break 1 block? We are testing minecraft for notch. He has 3-Million testers right now. The reason it's beta, yet for us, is so we can help him test it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1580029372570359363.post-87662095220300303972011-10-24T09:03:50.604-04:002011-10-24T09:03:50.604-04:00I gotta say, I disagree with you on all fronts, ex...I gotta say, I disagree with you on all fronts, except number 4.<br /><br />1 - Who really cares? It isn't just about the name of the game. He likes the name of his game, and he wants to prove a point. A big dog like Bethesda can't just bully their desires onto little indie devs. It was a bogus charge on Bethesda's part, and Notch proved it. The finances involved aren't really important, like you said Minecraft is a bit of a cash cow.<br /><br />2 - How is it selling out? He wanted to get his game out to a larger market, outside of PC you have to contract with the console developers. I don't understand how this takes him out of the indie game world. Whether the deal was made to be exclusive to Microsoft is not relevant to his "indie cred" and all the nothing that is worth.<br /><br />3 - You don't see the advantage to putting a line in the ground because you aren't making a game. Notch has mentioned before he was a little embarrassed that he has allowed the game to be so open ended with its release schedule, now that he was an actual company he needed to act like one, and the first goal of that was to pick a specific goal and release date for the game. Be able to Blizzard "soon" the game only worked when he was a one-man show, now that he has grown up, he had to take it more serious.<br /><br />4 - Notch was very hesitant about allowing other people develop code with him on Minecraft, it was his baby and he wasn't sure if he wanted other people to touch it. However he also knew Minecraft wasn't going to last forever. So yes, he hired more people than Minecraft needed (or would be allowed) to work on a new game outside MC. This allows him to be very specific on the MC code (only Jeb and him touch it), while still "developing" another game. I won't say this is diluting the resources for MC because if this other game didn't exist, those developers wouldn't exist either, that game has no impact on MC at all.<br /><br />The only part of that I agreed with is the fact they could use a dedicated QA staff. Half because it would greatly speed up the production time of the releases and make them more stable. The other half is because I am actually a QA person and would love to have a job with that company.d3k0yhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00615106398588804063noreply@blogger.com