Minecraft

abandoning the game? it's still a beta and updates come out often. no idea what u on about.

Plus he's making assloads of cash.

On the other note, I wonder how pets will work. If I leave my dog at home, run 5 miles away on an epic clay gathering adventure, and come back (assuming I don't need to feed it) will it still be there?

interesting question... with the current game mechanics it would despawn if there was no-one else in the chunk.

server is acting screwy tonight :(

  On 3/2/2011 at 8:33 PM, kaini said:

that's weird, because i've watched the documentaries and read interviews and get the opposite impression.

that is weird.

dude... like woah.. maybe you two guys live in like alternate universe and somehow watmm connects the two maaan

Or maybe one of them is an idiot

^That explanation is not IDM enough by half.

I don't see why it would be abandoned. Maybe notch himself won't want to look at it anymore after a while, but he could easily just hire people to manage it for him. I don't see an expanding company as a bad thing.

minecraft is like a money-plant. notch would have to be completely fuckin insane to abandon it.

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The “piracy is stealing” argument raises its head in the media every week and is on the lips of anti-piracy outfits and copyright holders every day. To them, every unauthorized copy is a lost sale and another small dent in the company spreadsheet which, when added to a million others, will destroy it bit by bit. To the maker of Minecraft, however, its an opportunity. Piracy is theft? You must be kidding. Lost sales? They don’t exist.

 

A quick look at the stats for the still-in-beta PC game Minecraft reveals a very healthy business indeed. At the time of writing the game has 4,880,757 registered users of which 1,469,513 (30.1%) have bought the game. In the last 24 hours alone, 36,618 people registered for Minecraft.

 

But while virtually all other game developers would be complaining about a near 70% of their market being eaten away by parasites who could not care less about the gaming industry or the fate of those who work so hard for their entertainment, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson sees the situation rather more optimistically.

 

Speaking during the closing session yesterday at the Independent Games Summit, Notch dismissed the notion that piracy is the same as stealing, or ‘looting’ as incoming MPAA chief Chris Dodd framed it this week.

 

“Piracy is not theft,” he said to those gathered in San Francisco. “If you steal a car, the original is lost. If you copy a game, there are simply more of them in the world.”

 

With this kind of reasoning one could be forgiven for thinking that Notch has pirate sympathies but since he’s a self-confessed member of the Pirate Party, that stance comes as no surprise.

 

“There is no such thing as a ‘lost sale’,” he added with a philosophy so Pirate-aligned it could be happily transcribed directly into any of their press releases. “Is a bad review a lost sale? What about a missed ship date?”

 

Notch was expected to talk about piracy for 5 minutes at GDC but in the event only managed about 3 minutes, describing the experience as “the scariest thing in a long time.” But while he may have only utilized 60% of his available time, he appears to have packed in value and left people wanting more, which coincidentally is his game developers philosophy too.

 

“If you just make your game and keep adding to it, the people who copyright infringed would buy it the next week,” he told those in attendance.

 

While anti-piracy zealots would insist that Minecraft has a 70% piracy or “lost sale” rate, Notch steadfastly sees his cup as rather more full than the raw percentages of his sales data may suggest, particularly by those viewing them from the perspective of an outdated business model. Indeed, despite this ‘pro-piracy’ stance, Minecraft’s position continues to improve.

 

Back in September last year the game had 658,429 registered players, that’s an increase of 4,222,328 in less than 5 months.

 

Currently 1,469,513 (30.1%) people have handed over money – in September that was 155,521 (23.62%) so its clear things are headed in the right direction. In the 24 hour period we examined in 2010, 4,910 people had bought Minecraft. Yesterday 10,381 did so.

 

“Piracy will win in the long run. It has to,” said Notch last year. “The alternative is too scary.”

 

If making truckloads of money is scary to Notch, he must be terrified right now.

minecraft won 5 awards at the GDC: http://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/43177381678157825

hm, thinking about playing minecraft again for a bit today.

anyone down for some building? i don't think i'm whitelisted on the watmm server, if it's even running anymore.

i like to build fancy things!

  On 3/3/2011 at 7:28 PM, fiznuthian said:

hm, thinking about playing minecraft again for a bit today.

 

anyone down for some building? i don't think i'm whitelisted on the watmm server, if it's even running anymore.

 

i like to build fancy things!

Get Whitelisted Foo! :mrtemoticonthatdoesntexist:

Edit: Kaini, you need a minecart rail on your bridge. Takes forever to cross on foot. Does anyone even use the minecart rails that run throughout the server?

Who runs the server and what is the address?

talk to kokoon about whitelisting.

the server address is dontlisten.com:27281

I need to be whitelisted! why am I not already.

the answer lies in the post above yours. we're not psychic, and i don't think we know your minecraft name.

  On 3/4/2011 at 5:10 AM, kaini said:

the answer lies in the post above yours. we're not psychic, and i don't think we know your minecraft name.

What kind of excuse is that. Just add everyone one he whitlisted the first time.

Its Skotosa but I'll PM.

http://c418.bandcamp.com/album/minecraft-volume-alpha

I just gave my minecraft (gift from kokoon) my first go and it's as poisonous as I thought.

Edit: Nevermind

  On 3/4/2011 at 5:10 AM, kaini said:

the answer lies in the post above yours. we're not psychic, and i don't think we know your minecraft name.

haha, oops. sent kokoon a lengthy PM requesting to be whitelisted

and fucking forgot my username altogether...

'hrvatski'

hmmm, what should i do with this (hollow) inverted pyramid that i'm building, watmm?

Same thing you do with everything in minecraft. Blow it up with tnt.

  On 3/4/2011 at 11:37 PM, kaini said:

hmmm, what should i do with this (hollow) inverted pyramid that i'm building, watmm?

 

build a pyramid on top of it, dig a massive hole underneath it and pretend its this from the game radiant silvergun.

  On 3/4/2011 at 11:54 PM, couch said:

Same thing you do with everything in minecraft. Blow it up with tnt.

that was just that one time.

doing a tetrahedron is kinda boring. and i'm sick of putting tree farms on top of shit too.