@Marnox said:
I find it strange that people would rather believe a second party making videos (and making money?) about a game, rather than the creator of such game. Very weird. I mean, you would never treat leeches that live of your blood nice, would you?
I guess when you get "big" people instantly act like you are the bad wolf when you try to protect what is yours. For better or for worse. Notch could have acted better, but he acted with his emotions. Which I salute, we get enough polite politician-y
chitchat as it is these days. My hat off to him because he was not afraid to say what he actually feels. I don't see the issue with selling streaming rights to IGN either.
Minecraft is THEIR game. Anything around THEIR game is theirs to do with as they please. Get over it.
When you've made millions of dollars seemingly overnight, you wouldn't mind the leeches. And they technically aren't leeches cause they aren't taking any money away from Mojang. If anything they probably give back to Mojang. I bought minecraft because of the Yogscast videos. Hell, they even went to gamescom on behalf of Mojang to promote minecraft on the Sony Experia Play. Perhaps Giant Bomb is a giant leech leeching off of countless game developers?
The reason people believe the Yogscast more is precisely because of the reason you say you like Notch's response. It is purely emotionally fueled, so it's hard to gauge if his accusations are true or if it's just something clouded by impassioned emotion. His anger would be more widely accepted if there was proof of such behavior on their part. While the Yogscast made accusations against Mojang as well, they did not defame Notch's or Mojang's character. They refuted baseless accusations of an apparently tired and stressed man on twitter and acted professionally. Funny thing about emotions is that sometimes they make you say things you may not mean and say things that you don't know are true. He could very well have heard rumors and took them to be true and used those rumors against them without proof in his tired and emotional state. Being honest and acting with emotions are two very different things. Emotions often cloud judgement and thought. I'd much rather salute someone who thinks before they speak than someone who just mouths off without thinking.
I don't see how Notch was trying to "protect" anything. Maybe he wanted to protect Mojang's reputation by distancing himself from the Yogscast. If that's the case, is the defamation of character really necessary? Just say "we do not endorse their actions and they are not representative of Mojang." When you react without that "polite politician-y" mindset, as you so put it, you get a big mess like this with insults and accusations being lobbed at both sides from people who don't know anything about the matter. So I hope you understand why it's better to be diplomatic than not.
And them selling rights to the live steam of a Yogscast panel without even speaking with the Yogscast about it is pretty bad. The Giant Bomb PAX panel was strictly not live streamed because the GB guys thought it wouldn't be fair to the attendees. Do you think it would be fair for the Penny Arcade guys to sell rights to live stream the GB panel without their permission?
Minecraft is their game, but Yogscast videos are not Mojang's content to own. Microsoft does not own the Halo quick look. They can ask for it to be taken down, but they can't use it as promotion or sell it without permission.
Notch's emotionally charged, factually lacking tweets caused a huge (perhaps temporary) backlash against the yogscast, whatever negative criticism Notch receives in return, he has only done to himself. I don't hate Notch, I have always maintained a neutral stance on him cause he seems real nice. If he can counter the Yogscast statement by providing proof and more concrete evidence of their actions, then I certainly would side with him. But he went out on the attack and was met with a good defense and it doesn't make him look good.
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