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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
by Kiro 4y ago
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.
- mort96 4y agoNowhere 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.
- Kiro 4y ago> I was one of the five people who had helped create this strangest of games
- mort96 4y agoHe 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.
- Kiro 4y agoIt 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.
- mort96 4y agoYes, 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.
- Kiro 4y ago"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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- BlueTemplar 4y agoIt'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.
- mort96 4y agoI 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.