EA Thinks Notch "Needs Help" Managing Minecraft

[ShadowSoldier]

I heard minecraft changed a lot. Is it even a sandbox anymore?

Its a sandbox with kittens now.

In other words, there's lots of shit in it?

 

[Joe88]

minecraft needs to be on steam :/
he can join gaben with his mountain of money

 

[Valwin]

I heard minecraft changed a lot. Is it even a sandbox anymore?

not really still the same bland experience

 

[hatredg0d]

minecraft needs to be on steam :/

there was a reason it wasn't on steam i thought. looked it up;
"Being on Steam limits a lot of what we're allowed to do with the game, and how we're allowed to talk to our users," Notch writes on his blog. "We (probably?) wouldn't be able to, say, sell capes or have a map market place on minecraft.net that works with steam customers in a way that keeps Valve happy. It would effectively split the Minecraft community into two parts, where only some of the players can access all of the weird content we want to add to the game."

 

[Gahars]

EA vs. Notch? Must... fight... apathzzzzzzzzz...

 

[Zerosuit connor]

And then came Mojang.

Didn't Maxis make the sims?

 

[Sora de Eclaune]

At which point Steam Workshop will have transformed into a sentient factory powered by tiny nanomachine elves that bear a striking resemblance to Gabe Newell.

And the manager will resemble GLaDOS.

Didn't Maxis make the sims?

Yes.

And not those awful MySims games. A good developer would have nothing to do with that crap.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Zerosuit connor, on 29 March 2012 - 03:02 PM, saididn't Maxis make the sims?

they (or should i say ww) made the sims 1 they had NOTHING to do with sims 2 or sims 3 b4 EA took over (raped) it

 

[Sicklyboy]

As somebody who has had to reinstall Windows on my son's computer after he attempted to install Mod Manager on that machine

This means jack. I've seen people think they need to reinstall windows because an icon moved or they wanted to uninstall something and didn't know how.

However I really, really agree that mods need official support, and hopefully 1.3 will do that. They've been holding back official mod support since 1.0.

I'd like to know what happened to make him need to reinstall windows after his son tried installing mod manager. If you can't right click a .jar and "Open with WinRAR/7Zip/whatever" you deserve to have your computer rights revoked.

 

[FireGrey]

I heard minecraft changed a lot. Is it even a sandbox anymore?

Well a sandbox implies you do a vast number of things so it never really was.

I think Notch needs help developing the damn thing. Oh wait, that's someone else's responsibility. The game is still incredibly unfinished and lacking in a lot of aspects. If it got a big name publisher like EA under it so they could, you know, actually make the game, then it'd be pretty neat.

EDIT: But this does absolutely reek of "Well Origin is kinda shit so we'll force more people to use it by segregating games to it." It worked for Battlefield, it worked for Mass Effect 3, but I can't think of any more big EA titles coming soon. So I guess if they can whore out Minecraft then it'd work.

I agree that it is too buggy and unfinished.
After I started playing Terraria i just lost most interest in minecraft...
Cube world looks good though.

 

[Deleted User]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

 

[Zekrom_cool]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

Block building was always fun. Its just become better.

 

[Joe88]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

Legos?

 

[Deleted User]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

Legos?

Terraria doesn't hurt like a bitch when you step on it.

 

[Bladexdsl]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

Legos?

Terraria doesn't hurt like a bitch when you step on it.

i have to stop reading in here while sipping a drink...

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

When did it do that? I found building in that to be boring, at best.

 

[celcodioc]

I heard minecraft changed a lot. Is it even a sandbox anymore?

Well a sandbox implies you do a vast number of things so it never really was.

I think Notch needs help developing the damn thing. Oh wait, that's someone else's responsibility. The game is still incredibly unfinished and lacking in a lot of aspects. If it got a big name publisher like EA under it so they could, you know, actually make the game, then it'd be pretty neat.

EDIT: But this does absolutely reek of "Well Origin is kinda shit so we'll force more people to use it by segregating games to it." It worked for Battlefield, it worked for Mass Effect 3, but I can't think of any more big EA titles coming soon. So I guess if they can whore out Minecraft then it'd work.

He did get help with developing it. Jens Bergensten (also known as Jeb) turned it into an RPG.

 

[Janthran]

I heard minecraft changed a lot. Is it even a sandbox anymore?

Well a sandbox implies you do a vast number of things so it never really was.

I think Notch needs help developing the damn thing. Oh wait, that's someone else's responsibility. The game is still incredibly unfinished and lacking in a lot of aspects. If it got a big name publisher like EA under it so they could, you know, actually make the game, then it'd be pretty neat.

EDIT: But this does absolutely reek of "Well Origin is kinda shit so we'll force more people to use it by segregating games to it." It worked for Battlefield, it worked for Mass Effect 3, but I can't think of any more big EA titles coming soon. So I guess if they can whore out Minecraft then it'd work.

Steam is better
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[frogboy]

At least Terraria made block building fun.

Legos?

Terraria doesn't hurt like a bitch when you step on it.

I have never had this problem in my life.

Then you never played with Legos.

Honestly, I think Jeb is doing a great job. I don't see any major problems with Minecraft besides the lack of a proper mod API.

Also, Notch doesn't work on Minecraft.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

He did get help with developing it. Jens Bergensten (also known as Jeb) turned it into an RPG.

A RPG with a leveling system that doesn't even work? Last time I checked I still heard the leveling system is broken.