Mojang Crushes Valve, Opens "The Minecraft Store"
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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(Looks over posts.) Wow. I think I'll call the UN and see if they can airdrop us some RTFA [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/RTFA]. Some posters are in desperate need of it.
It's tricky. Step 1: Craft a quiver, a gear, and three sponges.Logic 0 said:
Two words:TheSkaAssassin said:
"Narbacular Drop".
^Ooh, ooh, ten bucks says this guy's one of the people that joined the Escapist because of Notch's Twitter post and contributed to the bullshit-monger in the semifinals.Jimi Bove said:
Two bucks says he won't stay.
Now I play Minecraft, yes it's tons of fun and all... but seriously, Minecraft is one game. Notch / Mojang has made one game. One. Hell, the guys who made Angry Birds are more successful than he is.
What's that this was was posted on April 1 at 12:01? Silly Escapist, you can't troll me with April fools that easy. Silly Escapist!
Mojang's based in Sweden. It still might not have been April 1st when the Minecraft Store went up, or if it was it was really damn early, but still, time zones do screw with things.Brainst0rm said:
Does the Escapist purposely pay you to be completely biased, or is that just how you post all the time?Andy Chalk said:
You know what would be an even better joke?
Managing to get the game out of Beta instead of cruising on the love and adoration of a million fanboys who have convinced them that their game doesn't need a lot of improvements that they seem to have forgotten about.
This is why there's going to be a big backlash when they win, because apparently the voters are retarded enough to honestly believe, no April Fools impairing them, that a developer with one game still in the beta phase is a better developer than nerd rage favourite Valve and the developers of perhaps the greatest space epic of all time and in general some of the most if not the most highly regarded Western Role Playing Games of the last decade.
What exactly is the point of March Insanity again?
Managing to get the game out of Beta instead of cruising on the love and adoration of a million fanboys who have convinced them that their game doesn't need a lot of improvements that they seem to have forgotten about.
This is why there's going to be a big backlash when they win, because apparently the voters are retarded enough to honestly believe, no April Fools impairing them, that a developer with one game still in the beta phase is a better developer than nerd rage favourite Valve and the developers of perhaps the greatest space epic of all time and in general some of the most if not the most highly regarded Western Role Playing Games of the last decade.
What exactly is the point of March Insanity again?
That turned the unloaded sections of this page a weird shade of red, as opposed to the usual black and white tile pattern. I'm using Safari on an iPod Touch. Odd.
"The concept of a "Company Store" selling low-priced virtual novelty items for use in a videogame is certainly a fresh one and I think Notch and the rest of the team at Mojang deserve credit for pioneering this new and unique approach to customer service. Innovations like this are precisely why I like to support indie developers over bloated corporate machines like Valve, who just don't have what it takes to come up with this kind of original idea. Good job, Notch!"
You're kidding right? It was Valve that did it in the first place. It's called the Mann Co Store on one of their games called Team Fortress 2? Check your facts before you write stuff like that.
You're kidding right? It was Valve that did it in the first place. It's called the Mann Co Store on one of their games called Team Fortress 2? Check your facts before you write stuff like that.
