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« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2012, 01:43:50 am »
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With the way Notch handled Minecraft, I'm not looking forward to this (or anything else by him and Mojang). I love Minecraft, but I highly dislike Notch both as a person and a game developer.
He's a terrible example of a game developer and the fact that people are being inspired by him gives me even less hope for the gaming industry down the line.
Honestly, I agree - and it's nice to see that there are others who think so rather than worshiping the ground Notch walks on. I haven't paid much attention to Minecraft or Mojang lately (stopped caring once the novelty value of Minecraft wore off), but everybody's exaggerated love of Notch and expectations for each of Mojang's games to be as spectacular as Minecraft was is wearing on my patience. I loved seeing Double Fine deciding to launch a Kickstarter in the opposite direction of Notch. (Though I can't say I would be opposed to playing Psychonauts 2. <_<) Simple solution: If you don't care for the game or the developers, don't play it.
This is a bad way of looking at it though, and it's one reason why most gamers these days !@#$% me off.
Yeah I agree if you don't like a game don't play it, simple enough, but just because I don't care for a developer or a game, doesn't mean I shouldn't care about the impact it's having on the industry or developers/games I like. Look at DLC as the best example. People say if you don't like DLC, don't buy it, but now almost every developer is buying into that and as a whole, it's ruining so much.
That is a good point, but I was mostly referring to the context of Swiftu's post. His criticism wasn't the effect Notch is having on the gaming industry - in fact, he didn't even have a criticism, choosing instead to pointlessly insult a developer and post a link to the announcement page for the new game. People who would rather simply insult (or even praise) games and developers than discuss the impact (positive or negative) of the game (or even simply discuss the game itself, sans the industry discussion) are generally uninterested in the industry. To those people, I simply say "shut up and get on with your lives." Same thing goes for that "IT'S FREE/BETA" argument when someone gives criticism.
People do seem to use that argument when they really have no other justification for liking a game. Most don't even seem to understand that criticism is the point of beta releases-- developers and players alike.
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There's such a double standard about religion in the modern world. Catholics can gather, wear white robes, and say "In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti" and be considered normal.
But if my friends and I gather, wear black robes, and say "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", we're considered cultists. |
