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"If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately." He seems to have an awful attitude for a guy who jus

by tbrock 12y ago

"If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately." He seems to have an awful attitude for a guy who just made a billion dollars and gets to spend the rest of his life doing exactly what he wants.

DanBC 12y ago
He is saying "I made a mistake; I have learnt from that mistake and will try to avoid making the same mistake in future". That's a fucking great attitude and is -to me at least- much better than "I made minecraft and I'm awesome and the success of Minecraft has nothing to do with luck but is totally all those decisions I made because I'm brilliant" which is the kind of thing we hear from a bunch of other devs.
- tbrock 12y ago
  Good point, agreed. I think abandoning is a little much though. I guess it would have rubbed me differently if he had said I'll make it open source or hand it off to other developers earlier, etc.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    He did hand it off to other developers. He was still gettin hate for stuff those other people were doing. I kind of wish that mental health support was better and that he'd had some kind of mentoring to help him deal with it. Perhaps that's a startup idea: support with all the hate and bullshit that comes your way when you're a public figure. More expensive service would include rapid rebuttal service to quash lies and myth.
    - jiggy2011 12y ago
      You mean a PR firm?
      - DanBC 12y ago
        Well, a PR firm with cups of tea and hugs.
chiph 12y ago
I can dig him wanting to do a Flappy Bird, but there's also something to be said for taking a concept to initial production, and turning it over to someone else to run & improve. Your work then gets into the hands of (hopefully) millions of people, and the change in focus can provide additional inspiration for future work.
thenomad 12y ago
It's possible to have a lot of money and be legitimately very unhappy, all at the same time. The pressure of being as much of a public figure as he is, and the person blamed for anything wrong with the most popular computer game in the world, is probably Not Much Fun.
_xzu 12y ago
Why? As said in the message he doesn't want to be responsible for handling big successes. So this seems to be very healthy attitude. Hopefully he will open source his next big thing so community might be able to keep it alive.

by tbrock 12y ago

DanBC 12y ago

He is saying "I made a mistake; I have learnt from that mistake and will try to avoid making the same mistake in future". That's a fucking great attitude and is -to me at least- much better than "I made minecraft and I'm awesome and the success of Minecraft has nothing to do with luck but is totally all those decisions I made because I'm brilliant" which is the kind of thing we hear from a bunch of other devs.

tbrock 12y ago
Good point, agreed. I think abandoning is a little much though. I guess it would have rubbed me differently if he had said I'll make it open source or hand it off to other developers earlier, etc.
- DanBC 12y ago
  He did hand it off to other developers. He was still gettin hate for stuff those other people were doing. I kind of wish that mental health support was better and that he'd had some kind of mentoring to help him deal with it. Perhaps that's a startup idea: support with all the hate and bullshit that comes your way when you're a public figure. More expensive service would include rapid rebuttal service to quash lies and myth.
  - jiggy2011 12y ago
    You mean a PR firm?
    - DanBC 12y ago
      Well, a PR firm with cups of tea and hugs.

chiph 12y ago

I can dig him wanting to do a Flappy Bird, but there's also something to be said for taking a concept to initial production, and turning it over to someone else to run & improve. Your work then gets into the hands of (hopefully) millions of people, and the change in focus can provide additional inspiration for future work.

thenomad 12y ago

It's possible to have a lot of money and be legitimately very unhappy, all at the same time. The pressure of being as much of a public figure as he is, and the person blamed for anything wrong with the most popular computer game in the world, is probably Not Much Fun.

_xzu 12y ago

Why? As said in the message he doesn't want to be responsible for handling big successes. So this seems to be very healthy attitude. Hopefully he will open source his next big thing so community might be able to keep it alive.