Would Minecraft be Better With Notch in Charge?

[Tututerokツ雨]

I've been pumpin' water directly into my mouth from the fountain of knowledge and this lead me to the question: Would Minecraft be a better game if Notch didn't sell it to Microsoft?

I'm always against corporations taking over independent games they see potential in, not only you lose money in the long term if it's really going to be a huge success, it also kills off the original devs' intentions replacing them with corporations' usually bad perspective and understanding of the original design.

So what do you think, was the decision for the worse.. or for the better?

[Rio]

One change I'd enjoy them to make is add land claim blocks and certain mobs can be blocked from spawning in the area of the claim.

Namely

Squid, phantoms, slimes, ghasts. And a land claim area prevents endermen picking up and placing blocks.

Mainly mobs you can't do anything about. Like how do you stop ghast spawning in your big nether base? How do you stop squid spawning in your water ways?

[Vox]

LQIM lähetti viestin:

Labyrinth lähetti viestin:

Would Notch be better without that Microsoft Money?

Didn't he already make millions even before selling?

Apparently he aint a happy fella with his wealth.

[Morkonan]

Tututerok lähetti viestin:

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So what do you think, was the decision for worse.. or for the better?

I think that Microsoft's old publishing stance, which worked very well for them, was never applied to Minecraft when they took over.

I don't think Notch would have stayed, but I think the game would have been much better if Microsoft had not thought to "super-size" it into an online cash-cow formula. Getting a formal dev-team and structure and the support of Microsoft could have resulted in just a greater game, without the overbearing skin/market/social junk. But, that's not what happened.


Microsoft publishing has long had a reputation of being a "hands off" publisher. When they've bought up indies in the past to put them under their umbrella, they've basically just kept tabs on progress and told them "Here's money, now to go make your game."

(Note: A few weeks ago, Microsoft stated they will be taking a more active role in development with the devs in its group. This will hopefully not result in "heavy hands" oversight.)

There are pros and cons about what direction Microsoft took the game. I'm in favor of some, very strongly against many others...

The last version I played was the last old-school java version. I don't think my license works anymore, so... /shrug


That old-school java version was a great game, one of the best. From what I've seen of the new one, and things I've heard, it's a cash-cow kiddie-trap and I want no part of it. Sad Enderman :(

[RealEgg]

HMSNeptune lähetti viestin:

Minecraft would be better if Microsoft let us play without a Microsoft account.

Mark as answer.

[RealEgg]

If you said this in Minecraft chat it would show up as "**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************"

[Morkonan]

MarketBag177 lähetti viestin:

HMSNeptune lähetti viestin:

Minecraft would be better if Microsoft let us play without a Microsoft account.

Mark as answer.

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:/

[Tututerokツ雨]

SlowMango lähetti viestin:

Tututerok lähetti viestin:

I've beem pumpin' water directly into my mouth from the fountain of knowledge and this lead me to the question: Would Minecraft be a better game if Notch didn't sell it to Microsoft?

I'm always against corporations taking over independent games they see potential in, not only you lose money in the long term if it's really going to be a huge success, it also kills off the original devs' intentions replacing them with corporations' usually bad perspective and understanding of the original design.

So what do you think, was the decision for worse.. or for the better?

This is a weird question for someone who claims to support and advocate for LGBT representation in games.

What do you mean?

[RealEgg]

Tututerok lähetti viestin:

SlowMango lähetti viestin:

This is a weird question for someone who claims to support and advocate for LGBT representation in games.

What do you mean?

Just look at your TF2 post history...

[Basho]

keep in mind that Notch did not want ladders in the game.

[Stranger]

The way these deals work is you either sell or engage in total war with one of the world's largest and most powerful corporations.

I think things could have gone worse.

[Tututerokツ雨]

MarketBag177 lähetti viestin:

Tututerok lähetti viestin:

What do you mean?

Just look at your TF2 post history...

What about it?

[Electric Cupcake]

Labyrinth lähetti viestin:

LQIM lähetti viestin:

Didn't he already make millions even before selling?

Apparently he aint a happy fella with his wealth.

And he went insane. Probably wearing shoeboxes and pissing in bottles now.

[Stranger]

Electric Cupcake lähetti viestin:

Labyrinth lähetti viestin:

Apparently he aint a happy fella with his wealth.

And he went insane. Probably wearing shoeboxes and pissing in bottles now.

Well this is why it's important to deny people success.

Society has molded them so heavily for failure that most lose their minds after that's no longer a viable method of self-interpretation.

[Goose]

Tututerok lähetti viestin:

I've beem pumpin' water directly into my mouth from the fountain of knowledge and this lead me to the question: Would Minecraft be a better game if Notch didn't sell it to Microsoft?

I'm always against corporations taking over independent games they see potential in, not only you lose money in the long term if it's really going to be a huge success, it also kills off the original devs' intentions replacing them with corporations' usually bad perspective and understanding of the original design.

So what do you think, was the decision for worse.. or for the better?

the way you write makes my brain read this in penguinz0's voice.

[Rio]

Basho lähetti viestin:

keep in mind that Notch did not want ladders in the game.

He also wanted everything non-gendered. But he caved on both things.