A crappy, unoriginal version of minecraft that takes away the charming pixel graphics and replaces them with a load of generic hd shit, then charges you for every piece of content? Hell yes!
XBL Indie Dev Clones Minecraft With FortressCraft
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Gotta love fanrage. (See below and above)
It's how the industry works people, you get a good idea, people like your good idea, other people do more with your idea. In the end that's all Minecraft is, the idea that the player can collect randomly generated resources to make shit in an open world environment. At least there is some levelheadedness to be had:
You can't copyright ideas, and honestly that's all Minecraft is, so be glad it's being picked up by other people rather than just fizzling out after everyone has run out of personal projects du jour.
It's how the industry works people, you get a good idea, people like your good idea, other people do more with your idea. In the end that's all Minecraft is, the idea that the player can collect randomly generated resources to make shit in an open world environment. At least there is some levelheadedness to be had:
What would have been the point of bitching when there was Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, which spawned Hexen and Quake, which spawned...manythings said:
You can't copyright ideas, and honestly that's all Minecraft is, so be glad it's being picked up by other people rather than just fizzling out after everyone has run out of personal projects du jour.
no, thank you, i dont care if its just "based off", and "INFINIMINER" was nowere near minecraft, you could say they are two completelly different games
i think this game is latching into the fame of MC, and trying to sell a rather slim version of it, considering it will be sold in chapters i can only laugh at the attempt before i move on to something else.
EDIT: oh! right, i forgot something
*ejem* *cough* hahahahahaha *moves on*
i think this game is latching into the fame of MC, and trying to sell a rather slim version of it, considering it will be sold in chapters i can only laugh at the attempt before i move on to something else.
EDIT: oh! right, i forgot something
*ejem* *cough* hahahahahaha *moves on*
Listen to this man, people. Be a hedonist when it comes to these things. If this game turns out to be good fun, why would you have to miss out on it?Karilas said:
In any case, play it before you hate it. It's only $1 anyway.
Sooo many things wrong in here.The3rdEye said:
First of all, Infiniminer inspired minecraft, yes. But minecraft took the very basic formula and expanded on it in a hundred ways. This is simply taking those ideas from minecraft, and charging us for each one, without really adding anything new.
And yes, you CAN copyright ideas. Thats what a copyright is. By definition.
And Hexen and Quake were made by id (well Hexen was developed by raven but published by id), so why would anyone be pissed at id for 'copying' their OWN games?! Not to mention that Quake was FAR from a Doom copy, the technical advancements that came with the Quake engine were nothing short of groundbreaking.
No, Notch did not invent the idea of this kind of sandbox, nor does he own a copyright of it. This Fortress craft game isn't illegal, but by so far adding nothing original to the mix, this is a lazy copy of a better game, and people should not accept that.
It is different though isnt it? After all Infiniminer stopped being developed a month after it's release. So it made sense that someone picked it up and made a better version. What Microsoft is doing is a cheap shitty cash in that hopefully nobody will buy.GLo Jones said:
As someone who can barely get their head around modern microsoft word's needlessly complex set up (or at least I think it's word) I welcome a minecraft substitute that I won't run into any computer issues with. I have already invested in a kind of Ipod version with "eden world builder" which is pretty enjoyable but lacks the enemies or resource gathering something which many people say makes up half the appeal.
Gotta say though, love the action movie music for the trailer. I can imagine the overly masculine announcer "Minecraft, now on your xbox! Awesome! Now you can mine for stuff and build stuff with an extra manly control pad! YEAH!"
Any word on exactly when this will be coming out? I'm ashamed to say I lack even the microsoft points for one chapter.
Gotta say though, love the action movie music for the trailer. I can imagine the overly masculine announcer "Minecraft, now on your xbox! Awesome! Now you can mine for stuff and build stuff with an extra manly control pad! YEAH!"
Any word on exactly when this will be coming out? I'm ashamed to say I lack even the microsoft points for one chapter.
well, I hope sues the guys who made this game.
I mean, it is not a game that took some elements from the original game and made something new out of it (like minecraft did with infiniminer or whatever its called), it's an obvious clone.
It may be great for people who can't play minecraft, but come on!
I mean, it is not a game that took some elements from the original game and made something new out of it (like minecraft did with infiniminer or whatever its called), it's an obvious clone.
It may be great for people who can't play minecraft, but come on!
Minecraft is copyrighted to notch.henritje said:
It is under name "MoJang AB" ...
But I don't think he going to sue, he has made hes millions already and I am sure since hes idea wasn't original either (Just the execution was) he will be content to see what others can do. I know for sure that the people buying that game knows what minecraft is and will accept the fact that this is copy of it.
If one more person says that Microsoft is doing it i will emit rage from every orifice.InsanityBaronOfAtrocity said:
It is being made by an indie developer who apparently has done some good stuff before.
I swear to God, gamers are the worst consumers in history.
You people do realize that competition in the industry is a good thing?
The more competition, the better.
If there is a "rip-off" that's serious competition to Minecraft, Notch will have to make Minecraft even better to survive.
So no matter which game you favor, thanks to competition it will get better.
This goes for everything, since when are monopolies a good thing (for the consumer)?
The fervor with which gamers defend the maker of their console, their favorite dev, publisher and whatnot... did you all miss basic education [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_education]?
You people do realize that competition in the industry is a good thing?
The more competition, the better.
If there is a "rip-off" that's serious competition to Minecraft, Notch will have to make Minecraft even better to survive.
So no matter which game you favor, thanks to competition it will get better.
This goes for everything, since when are monopolies a good thing (for the consumer)?
The fervor with which gamers defend the maker of their console, their favorite dev, publisher and whatnot... did you all miss basic education [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_education]?