Mythruna

Not more than a week after the stunning revelation by the Bukkit team, Mojang's Notch has announced (https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/) that he has sold Mojang to the highest bidder; Microsoft. This is foreboding if one takes into account the exploits of Rare after their acquisition. Mojang's days are numbered as a gaming giant.

That made me mad, to be honest.

Meh.... What would one man do with 2.5 billion dollars?...

I have no idea Moonkey......

Me: I'd buy an island.
"But an island doesn't necessarily cost $2.5 billion..."
Me: No, but making sure it had high speed internet might.  :)

The money was probably split among the various founders... especially the ones who are bailing.  But still...

I'm kind of keeping my opinions on this to myself.  Hard to tell where flabbergast ends and sour grapes begins. ;)

It's definitely an opportunity if there ever was one. It's brewed up alot of hate and people are going to be falling off the Minecraft bandwagon faster than ever before.

Maybe.  I wish I was in a better position to take advantage of it.

Really, there are a lot of users who don't care... and those that do are already ingrained in the "rage-quit" cycle: "Stupid game!!! I'm never playing this again!" ...until five minutes later... I suspect any "I'm never playing again" from those folks will be short lived.

Video games tend to go through this sort of backlash periodically where a bunch of people threaten to quit "forever" but very few actually do.  So we'll see.

Personally, I think it's a really dumb move on MS's part.  They somehow think they will "break even" by June 2015.  They must be using a different math book than I am but then again, I don't run a successful multi-billion $$ corporation either.  That being said, they've been making a lot of seemingly dumb moves lately so who knows.

One thing that should be nice about all of this is that competitors (like myself) should be facing _much_ less backlash going forward.  We are no longer "attacking notch's dream" as some people reacted in the past.  At least I hope the community will be much less defensive going forward.

This is one of the reasons why I love you in that totally-normal-not-love kind of way. There's no way to disagree with anything you say when it comes down to stuff like this. xD


I never thought of the attacking Notch's dream thing, actually... But yeah, you're right. It really levels the playing field when people stop hating on the little guys. Hopefully it really does work out and people don't end up turning to Landmark or some shit like that...

Then again, Landmark DOES have spheres... .-.

I personally don't think very highly of Notch and the development on Mojangs side has been very disappointing the past few years for me. It still feels very beta even in VR and on a console.
I think Microsoft will merch the hell out of MC and then release MC 2 hopefully taking the engine and improving it. I hope they don't rewrite it in C because Id like to see JavaScript keep growing in this area.
I think if things happened differently that Mythruna could have stolen allot of MC users. That,s how I found Mythruna, Found it on someones list of MC clones because MC didn't satisfy me but the idea of voxel engines intrigued me(still does).
If I didn't have the menu sound crashing Mythruna Id still be visiting the server. I will be getting a new PC around xmas time so you all may see me back around then.

"MineBox Live"

That's also the dumb thing. This wasn't notch's dream. He specifically stated he's just a nerd programmer wanting to make silly things. He NEVER wanted Minecraft to be like this. That's why he said now, if he ever makes something again that starts to gain traction, he's dropping it completely. Sad, but I can't blame him.

Yeah, effectively he "rage quit" his own game. ;)  Well, he has enough money to do whatever he wants now at least.

I know Notch never condoned the "anti-clone" behavior... but it didn't stop it from happening.  You have to have a thick skin to have any kind of web presence about anything these days... games included.  I used to save some of the best insults because I joked that it would be funny to include them "on the box" where other games put review quotes. :)

It's kinda hard to look different from Minecraft when the idea of a voxel based game is... you know.

The irony is that when I'm finished, I suspect that many people will grip that it's not enough like Minecraft.  Mining and building in the final (non-creative mode) version will be _very_ different, I suspect.

Microsoft has been developing something of their own and is launching it. Similar to MC in that it's a sandbox... but that in itself is troubling. Perhaps they bought it just to dissolve it.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/06/microsoft-formally-launches-project-spark-so-players-can-create-their-own-games/

I feel like Project Spark is less like Minecraft and more similar to Halo 3's forge, which they had major success with in the past.

Ehh... Forge is kind of limited in comparison, but I see your point.

Project Spark has been around for a while. ;p

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but this project spark looks pure epic.
Except for the fact that It can only be used on consoles I don't have...


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