Notch steps away from Minecraft
 

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Well, we knew this day was coming. But seriously, I'm not at all surprised about it. The fact that he has more games coming and we know he'll be alright in terms of his financial proceedings tells me MC will do just fine without him while he makes other games.

Personally after most of the bugs are worked out (I believe removing them all is impossible) I'd be fine if work on minecraft completely stopped and leave new content to modders. Certainly satisfied with my 20 dollar purchase

Good.


Seriously, Notch had an awesome idea and I love minecraft to death, but all the recent changes have been like shittier versions of existing mods. I'm pretty glad he's stepping down and I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes of minecraft.

Personally I've been playing technic pack lately and nnnnngh its amazing.

How long 'til we have glitch boosters back?

due to the fact that the collide box has been shrunk so that it doesn't interfear with side carts (and walls) it's almost impossible to bring those back

it is probably the best mod pack I have ever seen. though I understand there is some controversy about it, like not getting permissions or something.

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Isn't Mojang like all about people modding minecraft? They keep talking about adding actual support for mods.

The controversy was that the mod maker feels he is updating minecraft better then notch.
Or otherwise known as Ego inflation.

Ehh, with Jen and co running the MC boat better than he did it can only mean good things, I say.

Well, they didn't get permission from anyone to include their Mod in the pack, because Goons will be Goons, but they gave everyone credit for their work. A small stink was raised by Flowerchild, of the Better Than Wolves mod, because he's a giant manchild, and He raised such a huge deal over it they didn't donate a single dime to him while flooding the other mod creators with cash.

That was pretty much the end of the problem for everyone except Flowerchild. They took BTW out anyway, because it was meh compared to the other mods and just taking up space, and moved on. Flowerchild just recently moved away from the MC Forge API because of a stink with one of the other Forge founders, and he has now started to try and make his mod incompatible with any other mods.