This thread is retarded. You all refuse to see common sense and make extreme exaggerated accusations about the apparent destructive reprocussions this will have as a result of porting an indie game to a console (because it obviously hasn't worked at all in the past and is naturally considered a crazy moronic notion by developers and gamers everywhere). I reiterate my previous question, how is this going to affect you at all? A different branch of Mojang is handling the XBox port which means the core team and Notch himself are still fully available for the PC version so that argument that this will make updates take longer holds no water.
This thread is retarded. You all refuse to see common sense and make extreme exaggerated accusations about the apparent destructive reprocussions this will have as a result of porting an indie game to a console (because it obviously hasn't worked at all in the past and is naturally considered a crazy moronic notion by developers and gamers everywhere). I reiterate my previous question, how is this going to affect you at all? A different branch of Mojang is handling the XBox port which means the core team and Notch himself are still fully available for the PC version so that argument that this will make updates take longer holds no water.
These forums are worse than YouTube commenters.
They really are; this is some dregs 'o the Internet material, to be sure. I like how not a single person has attempted to argue (with facts and not their imagination) why this will be such a disastrous move or counter a single thing that's been said by the handful of console owners that have appeared since the announcement. Could it be because they don't actually have an argument at all, and need a reason to have a pity party? Let's cry together, guys.
I also like how all but a few posters can actually read. I'm sure that twenty pages from now, there will still be people bitching about how the game is Kinect-only, drawing resources away from the PC version because Notch is focusing on the Xbox version, asking if it will be free because they bought it on PC, and begging for a PS3 version. Oh, and let's not forget all the Microsoft-bashing from their computers that are running a Microsoft OS (the same OS they play Minecraft with).
For such an outspoken group of PC elitists, they sure are ignorant.
Why on Earth would they have this for Xbox? Just because someone made a fail hack of it for kinect they're suddenly all over this? Well then do I have the hack for you! Inb4 release date!
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I start out each morning with a nice, hot cup o' Minecraft!
Reasons why we are complaining:1. This will attract whiny little 8-year-old Xbox fan boys to the forums and will start flame-wars 10x worse than this. Imagine this scenario for a second...2. Minecraft is taking WAY too long to develop as it is. Now their dividing their team down into even smaller, less productive task forces to work on an app for a phone, and now they are working on it for a financially failing addition to a console with a notoriety manifested by the individuals mentioned above. All of this is happening while the game is STILL in production.3. Going off of reason 2, Terraria, which as we all know ripped off 80% of its core concepts from Minecraft, is available on Steam and selling at VERY high rates. Why? Because it's completed, and its developers didn't take vacations every month for 1 week.4.Look at the picture in my previous post and you'll find a much better alternative to Kinect.
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I start out each morning with a nice, hot cup o' Minecraft!
Now, who is complaining about consoles and "Xbox kids"?
I'm willing to bet these PC elitists are "PC kids", the same exact thing as the "Xbox kids" they are protesting against
Reasons why we are complaining:1. This will attract whiny little 8-year-old Xbox fan boys to the forums and will start flame-wars 10x worse than this. Imagine this scenario for a second...2. Minecraft is taking WAY too long to develop as it is. Now their dividing their team down into even smaller, less productive task forces to work on an app for a phone, and now they are working on it for a financially failing addition to a console with a notoriety manifested by the individuals mentioned above. All of this is happening while the game is STILL in production.3. Going off of reason 2, Terraria, which as we all know ripped off 80% of its core concepts from Minecraft, is available on Steam and selling at VERY high rates. Why? Because it's completed, and its developers didn't take vacations every month for 1 week.4.Look at the picture in my previous post and you'll find a much better alternative to Kinect.
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1. These forums already appear to be a haven for children and the illiterate. And the only people I see starting and fueling "flame-wars" are the regulars that are crying about the game being ported. Nearly all pro-console posts that have been made during the past few days are articulate and loaded with level-headed common sense and research. From the PC crowd I see "OMFG NOTCH IS A TRAITOR THEY'RE KILLING OUR GAME THE END IS ****ING NIGH CONSOLES SUUUUUUUUUUUCK CALL OF DUTY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU".
Edit: Have you played on LIVE? How often do you run into "whiny little 8-year-olds"? I mostly encounter the late teen to mid-30's demographic you see on every other network, including PC. This notion that PC gamers have the market cornered on intelligence and maturity is laughable. Shall I quote for you the pages of stupid **** the "elite" have vomited forth in this thread? You people seriously need to take a look in the mirror.
2. The Xbox port is being made in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios. It's being taken from one platform that runs on a Microsoft OS and placed on another. What evidence do you have that this will result in an even smaller core development group, anyway? Also, in what way is the Kinect a "financially failing addition"? It's sold 10 million+ units in a year (double what the Wii sold in the same amount of time) and has been a massive hit, so much so that this year's E3 was entirely focused on it (http://mashable.com/2011/03/09/kinect-10-million/). Again, I'm going to assume you're just pulling these "facts" out of your ass to support your flimsy gripe. And hey:
YOU DON'T NEED KINECT TO PLAY THE GAME.
Also, the Wii U isn't slated to come out until some time in 2012, so how does that make any sense at all?
Edit: Not to mention the added challenge of coding Minecraft from the ground up on an entirely new platform, which would actually make the supposed "problems" you bring up regarding lack of manpower even worse.
3. I don't understand what Terraria has to do with anything. Are you actually claiming that Minecraft will be eclipsed by it because it's not finished yet and a simple port to XBLA is slowing things down too much?
Wow, this bloody forum winges more then Halo players, and that is saying something.
Look ok, I know what it is like to be a major fanboy. I'm a COUGH* ZELDAFAG COUGH*. You don't have to get really deffensive when somebody dilikes a desicion that you love. You just accept both sides and move on.
minecraft was developed to be played on a computer for a reason...
You know who disagrees? Notch. The guy that made the game. So maybe it wasn't "developed to be played on a computer for a reason" after all. You're welcome to tell him he's wrong though, since you've such keen insight into the development process.
And you can still play it on the computer, as it turns out. So your problem is...?
YOU DO NOT NEED KINECT TO PLAY MINECRAFT. IT WILL WORK FINE WITH A CONTROLLER.
THE GAME IS BEING PUBLISHED BY MICROSOFT GAME STUDIOS. THIS MEANS IT'S AN EXCLUSIVE. IT'S NOT GOING TO BE PORTED TO PS3. GET THE **** OVER IT.
HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED ALL VERSIONS OF A GAME YOU BOUGHT FOR ONE PLATFORM FOR FREE? YEAH, ME NEITHER. SO WHY WOULD MINECRAFT XBLA BE ANY DIFFERENT?
THE XBLA VERSION IS BEING HANDLED BY A DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT TEAM, SO YOUR PRECIOUS PC VERSION WILL CONTINUE ON AS IT ALWAYS HAS. THE PORT DOES NOT AFFECT YOU IN ANY WAY IF YOU WISH TO KEEP PLAYING ON PC. SO STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF WALKING VAGINAS.
These forums are worse than YouTube commenters.
They really are; this is some dregs 'o the Internet material, to be sure. I like how not a single person has attempted to argue (with facts and not their imagination) why this will be such a disastrous move or counter a single thing that's been said by the handful of console owners that have appeared since the announcement. Could it be because they don't actually have an argument at all, and need a reason to have a pity party? Let's cry together, guys.
I also like how all but a few posters can actually read. I'm sure that twenty pages from now, there will still be people bitching about how the game is Kinect-only, drawing resources away from the PC version because Notch is focusing on the Xbox version, asking if it will be free because they bought it on PC, and begging for a PS3 version. Oh, and let's not forget all the Microsoft-bashing from their computers that are running a Microsoft OS (the same OS they play Minecraft with).
For such an outspoken group of PC elitists, they sure are ignorant.
It's pronounced stick-BOB-i-guh. Got it? 'Kay then.
It's pronounced stick-BOB-i-guh. Got it? 'Kay then.
It's pronounced stick-BOB-i-guh. Got it? 'Kay then.
http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp
Now, who is complaining about consoles and "Xbox kids"?
I'm willing to bet these PC elitists are "PC kids", the same exact thing as the "Xbox kids" they are protesting against
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1. These forums already appear to be a haven for children and the illiterate. And the only people I see starting and fueling "flame-wars" are the regulars that are crying about the game being ported. Nearly all pro-console posts that have been made during the past few days are articulate and loaded with level-headed common sense and research. From the PC crowd I see "OMFG NOTCH IS A TRAITOR THEY'RE KILLING OUR GAME THE END IS ****ING NIGH CONSOLES SUUUUUUUUUUUCK CALL OF DUTY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU".
Edit: Have you played on LIVE? How often do you run into "whiny little 8-year-olds"? I mostly encounter the late teen to mid-30's demographic you see on every other network, including PC. This notion that PC gamers have the market cornered on intelligence and maturity is laughable. Shall I quote for you the pages of stupid **** the "elite" have vomited forth in this thread? You people seriously need to take a look in the mirror.
2. The Xbox port is being made in conjunction with Microsoft Game Studios. It's being taken from one platform that runs on a Microsoft OS and placed on another. What evidence do you have that this will result in an even smaller core development group, anyway? Also, in what way is the Kinect a "financially failing addition"? It's sold 10 million+ units in a year (double what the Wii sold in the same amount of time) and has been a massive hit, so much so that this year's E3 was entirely focused on it (http://mashable.com/2011/03/09/kinect-10-million/). Again, I'm going to assume you're just pulling these "facts" out of your ass to support your flimsy gripe. And hey:
YOU DON'T NEED KINECT TO PLAY THE GAME.
Also, the Wii U isn't slated to come out until some time in 2012, so how does that make any sense at all?
Edit: Not to mention the added challenge of coding Minecraft from the ground up on an entirely new platform, which would actually make the supposed "problems" you bring up regarding lack of manpower even worse.
3. I don't understand what Terraria has to do with anything. Are you actually claiming that Minecraft will be eclipsed by it because it's not finished yet and a simple port to XBLA is slowing things down too much?
Terraria sales: 200,000+ (http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/terraria-hits-200-000-sales-mark.12105/)
Minecraft sales: 2,000,000, while still in beta, and before hitting XBLA (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/04/25/minecraft-sales-hit-mind-boggling-two-million-mark.aspx)
4. See above.
5. Your arguments are horrible.
Look ok, I know what it is like to be a major fanboy. I'm a COUGH* ZELDAFAG COUGH*. You don't have to get really deffensive when somebody dilikes a desicion that you love. You just accept both sides and move on.
Jesus Christ, do ANY of you read these threads before posting?
You know who disagrees? Notch. The guy that made the game. So maybe it wasn't "developed to be played on a computer for a reason" after all. You're welcome to tell him he's wrong though, since you've such keen insight into the development process.
And you can still play it on the computer, as it turns out. So your problem is...?
Pc development Gets: $500,000 Xbox get other
More money=Better game.
JUST AS A STATEMENT!! NOT REAL AMOUNTS OF $$$.
GIVE THIS GUY A MEDAL!!!