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I feel like I rage on titles all too often, but I can't resist this one, particularly since this one comes from businessweek which is currently putting a grotes
by Helianthus 16y ago
I feel like I rage on titles all too often, but I can't resist this one, particularly since this one comes from businessweek which is currently putting a grotesque pop-up to win 1000$ for a survey in my face.
There's nothing _improbable_ about the rise of minecraft. It hit the right notes, took the right steps. What it was, was _unexpected,_ particularly to an audience/demographic (excuse the coming absurdly broad brush I swear it's just for hyperbolic humor) that relies on men in suits making decisions about what sells and what doesn't.
Hopefully I got over my pedantic streak for the day via that one word.
- runevault 16y agoTo me the title smells of the case of "10 years to an overnight success" since Notch has been building random games for years, this was just the one that happened to take off.
- timinman 16y agoYou beat me to it! I have exactly the same bent - atypical but not improbable. The game is successful because it's a great idea, recursively refined into a great implementation.