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Money isn't everything, according to Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's "increasingly despondent" tweets:
Shortly after the sale of Minecraft's parent company, Mojang's co-founder Markus Persson had reportedly left the studio in order to pursue other projects. Naturally, before immediately moving on to another enterprise, the man more affectionately known in the gaming community as "Notch" has taken several beats to reap the benefits of his success, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z on a $70 million home, and hosting lavish parties in his newly acquired mansion. However, he's also been afforded plenty of time to reflect on how far he's come, and not surprisingly, it's quite lonely at the top.
Recently, Notch took to his Twitter account to air his grievances with the current situation in which he finds himself. Although Persson's net worth currently rests at $1.33 billion as of writing, the famous game designer has confessed that such prosperity has essentially cursed him in the grand scheme of things, as he's "never felt more isolated". Apparently what John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote all those years ago is true, and it's that money can't buy love. Taking that into consideration, Notch's Tweets grow increasingly despondent, as seen below.
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The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @03:00PM
Capital isn't scarce, vision is -- Sam Walton
If you think a bog standard code monkey's time is worth as much as someone with the vision to create something millions will enjoy, you're severely deluded.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @03:25PM
Notch didn't have any vision, that is why he made a clone of Infiniminer. If the entire scenario was played out just a hair differently, we would be talking about Zach Barth instead of Notch.
At least Barth has made several commercially successful games. He is genuinely a great person that has said this when asked about the plausible outcome of suing Notch into dust, "The act of borrowing ideas is integral to the creative process. There are games that came before Infiniminer, and there are games that will come after MineCraft. That’s how it works."
If anyone deserves the money due to vision, it would be the only person that actually created the vision in the first place: Zach Barth.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @03:45PM
I note you're dicking around here on SN instead of off sailing your yacht from all the money your ideas have made you... Oh, wait, they didn't and neither has the sweat of your brow. You know why? Lack of vision. Vision isn't just having an idea, it's also being able to discern whether the idea is worth a damn or not and being able to see that idea through to fruition. When you make a a couple million off seeing an idea into reality, then you can talk shit. Until then, it's all just some whiner spewing envious salt.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @04:32PM
The same conditional logic you wish to apply in shutting down dissension to your opinion can be applied to shut yours down as well. You have the time to be on soylent therefore your opinion does not matter. Why even come here if you have such a low opinion of the posters and staff?
Do you have a valid argument or just childish vitriol?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @05:11PM
I gave you a valid argument, slappy. The old "if it's so easy, why aren't you doing it" argument. Give me a reason instead of salt and I'll be happy to tell you why your reasoning is childish and poorly thought out.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:37PM
The validity of his arguments is independent of how wealthy he is or whether or not he acts on his own beliefs.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 31 2015, @07:37PM
It's really not. If finding and bringing to market a brilliant or even moderately good idea were as easy as he seems to think, everyone would be rich. Reality itself refutes his claim.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @09:40PM
My claim is not dependent on difficulty. Yours is. The strawman that you are arguing against is really just a mirror.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday August 31 2015, @09:16PM
First-hand experience. The Mighty Bias is a poster *and* staff.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @09:43PM
That is why I said it, insinuating a disrespect for himself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @03:31PM
Ideas are 10 a penny. Just ask anyone who's hung around a game-dev forum.
The real value of any endeavour is in the people actually getting shit done.
Besides which, in this particular case, the game's core idea was pretty much copied from Infiniminer. After that, it's just adding random shit and iterating. Minecraft never really was all that innovative or visionary.