I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Kiro on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:23AM (#33905994)

Not really. If this was the post on HN I'm sure people would be more sympathetic because it leaves out all the important details, like the fact that he actually received €20k for it and the pompous idea that he's one of the creators of Minecraft.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by mort96 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:40AM (#33906103)

Nowhere does he say he thinks he's the creator of Minecraft. You sound spiteful, and I can't tell why.

EDIT: The comment used to say " ... the pompous idea that he created Minecraft". It was later edited.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Kiro on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:51AM (#33906166)

> I was one of the five people who had helped create this strangest of games

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by mort96 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:54AM (#33906188)

He is, undoubtedly, one of the people who worked on a part of the game, yes. That counts as "helping create the game". And claiming to have "helped create the game" is not the same as claiming to be "the creator" of the game.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Kiro on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:19AM (#33906325)

It absolutely reads as if his contribution is significant enough that he should be be considered one of the creators.

> giving money to back-office staff who had just arrived in the last year, and had zero creative input into the game [...] I had helped him create the actual game

The way he puts down regular employees, making it sound like his poem is obviously more important than whatever a mere employee does.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by mort96 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:25AM (#33906360)

Yes, he considers himself "one of the creators of Minecraft". Because he is one of the creators of Minecraft; he created a part of the game. He doesn't consider himself "the creator of Minecraft", as you claimed.

You can think he puts down regular employees and makes himself seem more important than is warranted. You may think his contribution is tiny compared to the contribution of people who marketed the game or made the website. I may even agree. But that's not what I take issue with. I take issue with you misrepresenting his words by claiming he thinks he's "the creator of Minecraft", which is completely unfair.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by Kiro on Thursday December 08, 2022 @05:37AM (#33906437)

"The creator" and "one of the creators" are not mutually exclusive. Both can be true.

> Steve Jobs is the founder of Apple Inc., along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

Anyway, I changed the comment to "one of the creators".

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by BlueTemplar on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:22AM (#33908761)

It's more complicated because he's one of the latecomers : by the point he was asked to do this work Minecraft had already been released and was already a massive success.

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Re:I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and giv... by mort96 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:05AM (#33909407)

I don't see how that's relevant, other than pointing out that his part of the creation was fairly minor, which I haven't disagreed with.

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