If it truely was not about money, then you dont sell to the biggest bidder. You sell to the one that will take care for your "baby" in the best possible way. I deeply doubt that MS is the one what will take care for Minecraft the best possible way compared to everyone else.
Originally posted by Nikaas If it truely was not about money, then you dont sell to the biggest bidder. You sell to the one that will take care for your "baby" in the best possible way. I deeply doubt that MS is the one what will take care for Minecraft the best possible way compared to everyone else.
I think what he meant was it wasn't ALL about money. Of course it's a little about money, in the real world we all have to live and that costs money.
He made Minecraft as a little project b/c he enjoyed programming and wanted to, not b/c he was aiming to hit it big and make millions. It has evolved into more than he could have ever imagined, it is now not so much a game as it is a platform encompassing the game itself w/ a million mods and thousands of different gameplay choices (you can pretty much play anything from Halo, GTA, all the way to Hide and Seek), then there are the toys, trinkets, t-shirts, lego sets, and other merch, not to mention the THOUSANDS of YouTubers who stream the game). He is using the surprise success of one his pet-projects to fund his life, when it comes down to it that counts for a lot. He has to take care of himself in some way, and he would be an absolute moron if he didn't take the highest bid. He cares about his "baby", but he also cares about himself and his family.
I have HUGE reservations about what will happen to Minecraft under M$, and to be totally honest am kind of disapointed that they got their mitts on it. My 10yo son absolutely adores Minecraft and why not, when he launches it he can choose between building just about anything he can imagine, or playing just about any multiplayer experience from CoD/Halo to Hide and Seek. What's his next favorite thing to do while not playing the game? He watches other people play and/or mod the game on YouTube. I just hope they don't try to monetize everything for the PC version, that is where the majority play Minecraft, and it is also the most open to modding by far. I don't think they would directly try to close Minecraft up by shutting down modding, but I think they will mess with what can done, and before long we'll start seeing "Skin Packs" and "game modes" for sale through the Minecraft launcher.
But back to Notch...I don't think this move makes him a sellout, a slight hypocrite maybe, but this move is totally understandable imo and I for one don't blame him for taking the money and running. Dude's gotta live.
I dont blame the guy at all. But...I do see Minecraft being botched by M$. I can see them requiring moneies to host a server, disallowing the mods, monetizing...everything. If they paid 2.5 billion you can bet they see a way to make 3 billion off of it...and I dont think the way it is currently packaged will garner that
It's interesting people are saying how _he's_ rich. Remember he said he wasn't the CEO. I dont' know all the ins and outs (was he being metaphorical, and he's really the CEO?). So, if that's the case, that $2.5 Billion went to Mojang; not Notch. Notch also, likely, didn't have a choice in the matter.
Remember Steve Jobs? He was FIRED as CEO from the company HE and Woz started. So even if he was the CEO of Mojang, the board may have told him to "sit down, shut up, and take the severance pay". It wouldn't be the first time a CEO was ..."pushed" into retiring
Plus, he isn't stupid. He's knows Minecraft is no longer unique. So, why keep something that's quickly being replaced by 'better' um...what ever Minecraft's genre is....Landmark, CubeWorld, Trove, the list goes on with new ones being added each month.
Personal Opinion in this Analogy: Minecraft is to Landmark as EQ was to WoW
In short, there are better Minecraft-isque (-ish?, -esque?) games coming out. I personally think Landmark will take the lead in replacing Minecraft as the dominate game in the genre....assuming SOE doesn't muck it up :P
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall.
haha, if I was him I'd have taken that deal to, well MS has allot of cash and interest in maintaining player numbers so its not a bad choice, there's many people interested in making a game as successfull as minecraft but not nearly as many with the money and interest to maintain the original.
You really think EA would do better? or Apple?, i'd trust MS over both of these two in a hartbeat, ea would DLC it up to the eyeballs and create an ingame shop, and apple would make a minecraft operating system which will only run on special minecraft machines that would cost ridiculous amounts of cash, and spam you with in-game adds about how cool it is to be suckered by an apple.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein "Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
what i dont understand is why people even play this crap game... if it was a 10 year old kid sure i understand, but even grown ups...
*shrugs* So you don't like the game. Neither do I. Doesn't make it a "crap" game. I still play a lot of older 8- or 16-bit games, emulated to my pc, not because the graphics are incredible (they're not), but because elements of the gameplay are particularly engaging, to me.
The fickle "Oooh, shiny!" mentality prevalent in so many gamers these days is what makes so many new games themselves shallow. The producers simply sell to the modern market. I can't blame them, any more than I can blame "Notch" for deciding "Heck with this garbage, this isn't why I'm here."
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I think what he meant was it wasn't ALL about money. Of course it's a little about money, in the real world we all have to live and that costs money.
He made Minecraft as a little project b/c he enjoyed programming and wanted to, not b/c he was aiming to hit it big and make millions. It has evolved into more than he could have ever imagined, it is now not so much a game as it is a platform encompassing the game itself w/ a million mods and thousands of different gameplay choices (you can pretty much play anything from Halo, GTA, all the way to Hide and Seek), then there are the toys, trinkets, t-shirts, lego sets, and other merch, not to mention the THOUSANDS of YouTubers who stream the game). He is using the surprise success of one his pet-projects to fund his life, when it comes down to it that counts for a lot. He has to take care of himself in some way, and he would be an absolute moron if he didn't take the highest bid. He cares about his "baby", but he also cares about himself and his family.
I have HUGE reservations about what will happen to Minecraft under M$, and to be totally honest am kind of disapointed that they got their mitts on it. My 10yo son absolutely adores Minecraft and why not, when he launches it he can choose between building just about anything he can imagine, or playing just about any multiplayer experience from CoD/Halo to Hide and Seek. What's his next favorite thing to do while not playing the game? He watches other people play and/or mod the game on YouTube. I just hope they don't try to monetize everything for the PC version, that is where the majority play Minecraft, and it is also the most open to modding by far. I don't think they would directly try to close Minecraft up by shutting down modding, but I think they will mess with what can done, and before long we'll start seeing "Skin Packs" and "game modes" for sale through the Minecraft launcher.
But back to Notch...I don't think this move makes him a sellout, a slight hypocrite maybe, but this move is totally understandable imo and I for one don't blame him for taking the money and running. Dude's gotta live.
I wish it hadn't come to this, but that's me being selfish and afraid of where MS might take this game.
Always a fan here, /salute to Notch, wish ya nothing but the best good sir.
I give it a week before someone says
'you cant use MineCraft as an example of an indie game because its owned by Microsoft and the original owners dont even work there now'
It's interesting people are saying how _he's_ rich. Remember he said he wasn't the CEO. I dont' know all the ins and outs (was he being metaphorical, and he's really the CEO?). So, if that's the case, that $2.5 Billion went to Mojang; not Notch. Notch also, likely, didn't have a choice in the matter.
Remember Steve Jobs? He was FIRED as CEO from the company HE and Woz started. So even if he was the CEO of Mojang, the board may have told him to "sit down, shut up, and take the severance pay". It wouldn't be the first time a CEO was ..."pushed" into retiring
Plus, he isn't stupid. He's knows Minecraft is no longer unique. So, why keep something that's quickly being replaced by 'better' um...what ever Minecraft's genre is....Landmark, CubeWorld, Trove, the list goes on with new ones being added each month.
Personal Opinion in this Analogy: Minecraft is to Landmark as EQ was to WoW
In short, there are better Minecraft-isque (-ish?, -esque?) games coming out. I personally think Landmark will take the lead in replacing Minecraft as the dominate game in the genre....assuming SOE doesn't muck it up :P
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising everytime we fall.
haha, if I was him I'd have taken that deal to, well MS has allot of cash and interest in maintaining player numbers so its not a bad choice, there's many people interested in making a game as successfull as minecraft but not nearly as many with the money and interest to maintain the original.
You really think EA would do better? or Apple?, i'd trust MS over both of these two in a hartbeat, ea would DLC it up to the eyeballs and create an ingame shop, and apple would make a minecraft operating system which will only run on special minecraft machines that would cost ridiculous amounts of cash, and spam you with in-game adds about how cool it is to be suckered by an apple.
Relevant: http://kotaku.com/oculus-ceo-on-microsofts-minecraft-acquisition-how-ir-1637192627/all
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
*shrugs* So you don't like the game. Neither do I. Doesn't make it a "crap" game. I still play a lot of older 8- or 16-bit games, emulated to my pc, not because the graphics are incredible (they're not), but because elements of the gameplay are particularly engaging, to me.
The fickle "Oooh, shiny!" mentality prevalent in so many gamers these days is what makes so many new games themselves shallow. The producers simply sell to the modern market. I can't blame them, any more than I can blame "Notch" for deciding "Heck with this garbage, this isn't why I'm here."