Mojang "Boycotting" E3

[Lily]

Oh, I like the sneaky little "we're going to introduce a subscription service to Minecraft" they hid in there. See? Even after you buy something, you can always expect someone to find some way to charge you more. It clearly doesn't matter if they're Capcom or indie developers. They're all the same.

Right, because it costs them nothing to continue to offer updates and content. Nothing to offer hosting service. Nothing for ongoing support. How dare they try and generate some money to cover their costs, and maybe be able to eat and support their families. THOSE BASTARDS.

I will boycott Mojang immediately.

 

[Sicklyboy]

"Let's start up our own SMP hosting service that the members have to pay for!", which is quite expectable and understandable.

I can see it turning into "Let's start hosting our own SMP service, making game clients connect only to our servers, and remove any support for self-run or custom (CraftBukkit/CraftBukkit++/Spout) servers."

In which case my jimmies will be quite rustled. Waste of me buying server hardware.

 

[Eerpow]

Oh, I like the sneaky little "we're going to introduce a subscription service to Minecraft" they hid in there. See? Even after you buy something, you can always expect someone to find some way to charge you more. It clearly doesn't matter if they're Capcom or indie developers. They're all the same.

Right, because it costs them nothing to continue to offer updates and content. Nothing to offer hosting service. Nothing for ongoing support. How dare they try and generate some money to cover their costs, and maybe be able to eat and support their families. THOSE BASTARDS.

I will boycott Mojang immediately.

Except that in this case they probably got enough money to be able to wipe their asses with it.
Minecraft has little development costs and is only offering updates that should have been included in the first place, those things does not justify a subscription fee.
DLC is fine but a subscription is too much.

Edit: Oh right, a hosting service... still I'm not so sure about it though.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Does Mojäng actually have something E3-worthy to show off?

I'd say that Mojang itself isn't E3 worthy.

 

[BORTZ]

Huh let me think about the last time boycotting did anything useful... nope cant think of any.

 

[ZaeZae64]

Mojang sure does have a high horse don't they?

"we have to look at new ways to make money in the long run."

Make good games.
There, problem solved.

 

[Rydian]

Mojang: HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT US, HEY, EVERYONE, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY, WE'RE STILL RELEVANT RIGHT? HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

NOT going to a con is a cry for attention? They decided not to and were interviewed about it, is every company that accepts an interview crying for attention? Or only ones you're tired of hearing about?

I mean you all will have to excuse some guys for acting based on their personal morals, rare as it is nowadays I'm sure the concept IS such a shock to you all.
I certainly get enough flak when acting on mine in the forums here.

Didn't the ESA retract their support for SOPA/PIPA?

Edit: Yup. http://kotaku.com/5877996/esa-drops-sopa-support

This is about morals, and they supported it in the first place, only pulling publicly support when it was shown to possibly hinder them financially in the near-future from all the backlash.

Who's Mojang? ...Oh, right. Minecraft.

Also the publisher for Cobalt. People say it's fun but I haven't looked at it yet, not really interested. There's also their upcoming game, 0x10c, but I don't have any hopes for that at all from what I've seen.

Meh. I doubt anyone going to E3 is going to lose any sleep over this.

Agreed, this is a moral-centered move, not something they expect to gain from financially. This is a "matter of fact" issue, not something that's meant to be shocking. Mojang's not going to E3, some people wondered why, so this interview asked it ans they answered.

Oh, I like the sneaky little "we're going to introduce a subscription service to Minecraft" they hid in there. See? Even after you buy something, you can always expect someone to find some way to charge you more. It clearly doesn't matter if they're Capcom or indie developers. They're all the same.

I'm holding off on my judgments of this, as they've made a ton of announcements that they changed their minds about later (for example making mod ability a subscription service for developers).

 

[Wabsta]

Actually I'm very excited about 0x10c! Being a programmer I'm really looking forward to put my programming skills into space!

But... like... you could just program your own stuff without paying monthly fees...

Not to mention there's gonna be so many Minecraft players who will mindless buy into 0x10c and realize it's not for them. They appear to be appealing to a very niche audience that the base of Minecraft won't transfer over to. I expect them to report huge opening subscriptions and that number to drop harshly soon after.

Yes, I can just code my own stuff no one will ever look at (or code usefull stuff that people will use ofcourse), but I could also code a spaceship + extra's that people in some community will be able to see.
It's like saying, why play minecraft when you can just get some old lego and build something imo.
Or get some old toy soldiers and play with that instead of an RTS.
Or get some toy guns and play like you're shooting eachother with it IRL with friends instead of playing an FPS.

Heck, why would you pay a monthly fee for a game like World of Warcraft when you can just roleplay with your friends.

EDIT: I do understand your point though, it just sounds like fun.

 

[Rydian]

Well there's people in the minecraft community that are heavily into redstone stuff... but they're not the majority.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Mojang: HEY EVERYONE, LOOK AT US, HEY, EVERYONE, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY, WE'RE STILL RELEVANT RIGHT? HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

NOT going to a con is a cry for attention? They decided not to and were interviewed about it, is every company that accepts an interview crying for attention? Or only ones you're tired of hearing about?

I mean you all will have to excuse some guys for acting based on their personal morals, rare as it is nowadays I'm sure the concept IS such a shock to you all.
I certainly get enough flak when acting on mine in the forums here.

This isn't just "a con", it's THE con. E3 is pretty much the biggest venue for gaming. Skipping it either means you have nothing to show or you're not big enough to make it in there.

Skipping the largest video game convention over a long-dead bill is just a stupid reason. They probably skipped it because they have nothing to show and realized saying "Oh we did it since we're against SOPA/PIPA" will get them more praise than saying "We have nothing to show".

I mean no one really cares about Mojang, they care about Minecraft. It's why there's no "MojangCon" but there's a "MineCon". Now with Mojang pretty much wiping its hands clean of Minecraft and, unlike Valve, who can not give a shit about making or publishing games constantly, they're just stuck with nothing to show off and are living off Minecraft money until 0x10c and Scrolls get off the ground, if they ever do.

 

[Rydian]

Well you'll just have to excuse people for caring about their own morals more than you care about theirs, then.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Well you'll just have to excuse people for caring about their own morals more than you care about theirs, then.

My point is that morals is probably the last thing that factored into that decision.

 

[Rydian]

Your post seems to assume that everybody would want to go in the first place, that it's automatic and it must be some ulterior motive, that their stated reason (morals) isn't true.

Maybe, just maybe that's not it? Maybe the stated reason is true?

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Your post seems to assume that everybody would want to go in the first place, that it's automatic and it must be some ulterior motive, that their stated reason (morals) isn't true.

Maybe, just maybe that's not it? Maybe the stated reason is true?

It seems more obvious that they didn't go because they have their own convention for this sort of thing and the amount of products they're offering at the moment are slim and probably not too far in production.

I don't necessarily worship the ground Notch walks on so maybe I'm a bit biased, but I don't see Mojang as some sort of prophet of indie games as much as they are full of themselves.

 

[Rydian]

I don't think they have anything to show either, but I'm not going to sit here and call their claims of morals bullshit like other people because I don't think as much of them.

 

[Forstride]

Boy Mojang, you sure showed them!

As much as I love Minecraft, this is just stupid.

 

[Rydian]

In what way?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

What are they gonna do? Build a sign out of blocks?

 

[chrisrlink]

wasn't SOPA Killed and the latest reincarnation ACTA? then why are they against a dead law better boycott the next bill rather than a dead one

 

[Rydian]

The company supported it originally, and they're against that, morally.

I mean I'm going to go all metaphor on this and I know people hate that, but... Imagine if your girlfriend were to stat talking about how much she wants to fuck other guys, then when she saw it really upset you she stopped talking about it. Just because she stopped talking about it doesn't mean the want is gone.