"Fixed a bug causing Skeletons to miss their targets on occasion."
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- D3matt
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Apr 3, 2013
D3matt posted a message on TU9 Update for MCX360 Expected Live on FridayPosted in: News -
Jan 17, 2013
D3matt posted a message on Snapshot 13w01b Update ReleasedPosted in: News
Huh? Hasn't it been that cactus can't grow next to blocks since cactus was first added? -
Jan 12, 2013
D3matt posted a message on Snapshot 13w01b Update ReleasedPosted in: News
Noooo! Now you can't make simple cactus farms D: -
Aug 14, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Minecraft Surpasses 7 Million SalesMakes me wish I owned shares of Mojang. It's crazy the potential growth and profits of indie games. Minecraft literally started from nothing, 0$, and turned into a $200m+ game. (Assuming approximately $20 average sales and 10m purchases between Xbox and PC, not counting expenses). Even if you count Notch's PC, electricity bill, etc. for the initial costs, that's some insane growth right there. Minecraft 360 was profitable in less than 24 hours.Posted in: News
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Jul 22, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Lawsuit Filed Against Mojang - This Time, For Obscure PatentHis "view of the situation" is so pathetically generic one can hardly call him anything but a patent troll. 20 years is a silly amount of time for a software patent, especially considering it's basically patenting an ENTIRE BRANCH OF SOFTWARE THEORY. Further, why haven't all the other thousands of programs using far more invasive DRM that falls under this been sued yet? And where does minecraft tie serial keys to specific computers? It doesn't.Posted in: News
There have been entire defenses built around lack of prior enforcement of a patent or other IP. That was the reason why Bethesda sued mojang, because they couldn't not enforce it. I fail to see why these guys should get any money when they have done such a ****-poor job protecting their patents that almost every program ever created uses it. -
Jul 22, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Lawsuit Filed Against Mojang - This Time, For Obscure PatentIt's worth noting that even if Mojang loses it's unlikely it'll do them any serious damage. As an indie dev team, their overhead costs are very slim compared to larger software houses, and with the continuing success of both MC and MCX360, as well as the presales of their other games, their income so far outstrips their expenses that they could sue them for their net worth and they'd be back up and running within a week.Posted in: News
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Jul 22, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Lawsuit Filed Against Mojang - This Time, For Obscure PatentPosted in: News
Like I said, judging whether the law (or in this case the patent) is itself illegal. I'm honestly not sure how their patents haven't fallen through yet. -
Jul 22, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Lawsuit Filed Against Mojang - This Time, For Obscure PatentPosted in: News
First off, apple is not my "beloved" to any extent. Secondly, "slide to unlock" is much more commonly known and any one else using it almost certainly took inspiration from Apple. On the other hand, this company and its patent are so obscure that it's reasonable to assume (most) of these companies came up with the same idea on their own. Plus, I don't even know where Uniloc's anti-piracy fingerprinting falls into minecraft, seeing as it has no anti-piracy technology.Quote from OliTheG
1) It's ridiculous that this is being played off as ridiculous because the patent isn't understood by the average gamer.
2) You say it's "awful" that a company is suing another for something silly, and for something it has actually developed? Yeh, well how about your beloved apple? They abuse the legal progress. The last time I checked, they didn't invent sliding doors, but still tried to get the Galaxy Nexus banned for having a slide to unlock feature. They come up with a stupid lawsuit for a generalised patent (e.g. something that is phone shaped) force the temporary banning of its opponents, and then delay the court case as long as they can. Normally get laughed out of court, and then carry on. And this is from Steve Jobs, the man who always "promoted" innovation? Nearly all new apple features are 100% rip offs (including pure code) of other people's work.
tl;dr - If you are reading this, why do you think you have the intellect to comment on a legal patent issue?
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Jul 22, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Lawsuit Filed Against Mojang - This Time, For Obscure PatentPosted in: News
Right, because their copyright is so highly specific, Mojang just be evil for wanting to protect computers! leik zomgz! In fact there's little way they could legally know if their patent is being violated, seeing as minecraft is technically closed source, especially the login server software. The fact that they've sued 70-something companies tells me that they've deliberately created the most vague patent possible for the express purpose of sueing people who came up with the same idea that also works. It's the equivalent of the IEEE deciding to sue people for using wireless encryption.Quote from XavierHorovitz
I love how biased the title of the thread is. Mojang could very well be the bad guys here, even if they didn't mean to be. You never know.
Their website states that they're "in the business of developing big ideas". If that's the case, why don't they sell their ideas instead of letting them remain obscure and unknown? Then they list on their website some of the major lawsuits as a source of pride, right alongside vague references to their anti-piracy patent and where it's applicable. And that's not the only page. Almost every page has references to them being lawsuit-happy idiots. -
May 17, 2012
D3matt posted a message on HungerCraft vs RMCT Match Tomorrow!Team hunger games? That's pretty much the most pointless thing ever. The whole point of the hunger games is that it's every man for himself and only one can win. How is this different than any other pvp tournament, other than that it's riding the hunger games bandwagon?Posted in: News
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May 4, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Ever Wondered About SMP Server Traffic?O noes Mojang has very basic information on my server! Better throw up a huge fuss about it because I'm a clueless fool!Posted in: News
They released the raw data, go look for yourself and see just how vague the information is. I guarantee you 100% even you couldn't find your own server in that data. -
May 2, 2012
D3matt posted a message on Ever Wondered About SMP Server Traffic?Is that seriously a file with data on every minecraft server in the world? Wow, that's impressive. Like, mind-blowingly so.Posted in: News
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I won't be doing a "vote for x days straight" thing because those **** me off. It'll be simple. You vote, you get x amount of y currency.
May I suggest practicing your voting now so that you're ready when I do add it?
Also if anybody knows how to contact PikaXed I need him to help me get the minestatus page transferred to me.
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If I add a donate button, there will be ingame rewards for donating as well. Votifier is also a possibility, but first I'd have to add iConomy or something similar, I believe.
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I think I will get a paypal and put up a donate button, and maybe (though I doubt it) somebody will throw a few pennies my way that I can invest in either a UPS or a new server. Power outages are rare in my neighborhood, but it majorly sucks when they happen to servers.
EDIT: Unfortunately this likely also means considerable lag while the new map generates.
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Madman's ban appeal has been accepted. Somebody who gets a chance can unban him or else I will later today.
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There have been entire defenses built around lack of prior enforcement of a patent or other IP. That was the reason why Bethesda sued mojang, because they couldn't not enforce it. I fail to see why these guys should get any money when they have done such a ****-poor job protecting their patents that almost every program ever created uses it.