Mojang Crushes Valve, Opens "The Minecraft Store"

NooNameLeft

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Considering the price of the virtual items and the size of the minecraft community, their going to make A LOT of money.

edit: I failed so hard...
c'mon notch april fools is tommarow...
 

RA92

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TheSkaAssassin said:
Raiyan 1.0 said:
TheSkaAssassin said:
EDIT: OK, so the store was a joke, but was the article?
You should have seen me reading your post! XD

Lemme sing this for you Andy:

This is a triumph...
I read back through andy's article, then read my post.
He deserves a medal for how hard he trolled me.
This whole thread is pure comedy gold.
Do not worry good sire, you shall be remembered as one of the first casualties, a martyr for the sake of our entertainment. :)

<color=red>Tomorrow will be a bloodbath.
 

Sylocat

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I may be missing something, but I can't find any explanation as to what these items actually DO.

Is this an April Fool's Day joke, where the other joke is that it's a day early?
 

thatstheguy

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I guess Notch is celebrating his victory by trolling the fuck out of VALVe. He seems to be doing a pretty good job at it.
 

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Irridium said:
Dammit... I wanted that Greifer's disguise, but the raptor won't let me have it :(

Damn raptors...

Wait... raptors sounds like creepers... they both end in "rs"...

HOLY SHIT! NOTCH IS ADDING RAPTORS TO THE GAME!

[sub][sub]If anyone takes this seriously, I will derisively laugh at you.[/sub][/sub]
OH MY GOD I DEFINATELY NEED TO GET MINECRAFT NOW- Wait what does that say *zooms in* oh you son of a *****.
 

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Notch beat the rush, and cost me half my points. I figured that the company that brought us steam and all their games would beat out a guy with only a beta product to his name(But I knew he would obliterate everybody else).
 

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Maybe he'll finally add killstreaks to the game as well.
 

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TheSkaAssassin said:
Yes, we're all very *winces* "pleased" (some more than others) that the "underdog" (at this point, I'd hardly consider Mojang an underdog anymore) has triumphed over the behemoth that is Valve Corporation, but a little journalistic integrity never killed anybody.

"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."
When Valve did it, they were money-grubbing whores. When an indie developer does it, it's "fresh...new and unique".

One more thing. "[The] bloated corporate machines like Valve, who just don't have what it takes to come up with this kind of original idea.", you're joking right? PORTAL WAS THE MOST ORIGINAL THING ANYONE IN THIS INDUSTRY HAS COME UP WITH IN THE PAST DECADE AND ANYONE THAT SAYS OTHERWISE IS DAFT! The story, the humour, the characters, the physics, nobody will ever create something so golden ever again. I'd LOVE to see where modern gaming would be today without Half-Life or its many derivatives and successors. Valve reinvented the FPS, created several of gaming's most beloved icons (Hell, they don't call us "The Church of Gordon Freeman" for nothing), and are a powerhouse when it comes to gaming and innovation. But the second they lose to a "indie developer", they're just another faceless leviathan who doesn't care about gaming.

Anyone who says Valve has lost touch needs to replay through Half Life and be reminded of how many things they gave us.

Gaming has completely forgotten its roots, and it disgusts me.

Priceless.
 

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Baldry said:
Irridium said:
Also, isn't it the 31st? April Fool's is tomorrow. Unless my calendar is playing a joke on me.
It may be tomorrow where he lives..?
Nope, all of Scandinavia has the same time zone, and here in Norway it's still 31. Mars.
 

Macgyvercas

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Wait, wait, wait...

One key = $3
Five keys at $18 total = $3.60/key

I CALL FOUL!
 
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ProtoChimp said:
Irridium said:
Dammit... I wanted that Greifer's disguise, but the raptor won't let me have it :(

Damn raptors...

Wait... raptors sounds like creepers... they both end in "rs"...

HOLY SHIT! NOTCH IS ADDING RAPTORS TO THE GAME!

[sub][sub]If anyone takes this seriously, I will derisively laugh at you.[/sub][/sub]
OH MY GOD I DEFINATELY NEED TO GET MINECRAFT NOW- Wait what does that say *zooms in* oh you son of a *****.
You know what this means!

 

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I love the fact that Notch can sell blatantly overpriced items as a "thank you" and everyone is so obsessed with Minecraft that they'll accept it fully. For example, this article is super happy that you can pay $42 dollars for a creeper saddle.
Andy Chalk said:
Innovations like this are precisely why I like to support indie developers over bloated corporate machines like Valve [http://www.valvesoftware.com/], who just don't have what it takes to come up with this kind of original idea. Good job, Notch!
I think the escapist loves minecraft too much if they can't realize that this is a blatantly obvious ploy to make a bunch of money along the lines of blizzard's $15 ride-able pets. If this is all an April fools joke I didn't get it, but if it isn't, everyone needs to realize that a store that sells in game items is not at all original.

Seriously, minecraft is an excellent game, but Notch likes money just as much as anyone else, and if he's selling customer support for over $400 that's not a good thing.






April Fools
 

B-rad747

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had the volume all the way up with headphones on. lets just say that raptor scared the living shit out of me.