I'm surprised there hasn't already been a thread about this. It's pretty old news, but Notch announced his next game, which is called 0x10c. The story is basically that when people were first setting up hibernation chambers or some similar nonsense, they used an old-school programming language that had a major error in it which rendered 00000000000000.1 as 1.00000000000 or something like that. So when the sleep time values were input, it actually multiplied them by several billions. Now people are starting to wake up on board their spaceships and the universe is pretty much dead. Notch claims it will be hard scf-fi and one of its main features is the inclusion of a full in-game programming language. That's all well and good, but the business model for the new game is as follows: - No gameplay videos or screenshots have been released, development started on April 2 - You can buy into the Alpha, like Minecraft - It's a persistent MMO (or something along those lines) - There is a monthly subscription fee So, to reiterate, Notch wants you to pay a monthly subscription fee in order to participate in the Alpha of his MMO. What's worse is that he's already mapped out the business model for a game that he has barely started developing. And people are actually happy about this. Hopefully the backlash against his retarded money-grubbing scheme will rise when it becomes more commonly known, as the game (or rather, the ideas Notch currently claims will be in the game; lol) looks intriguing. EDIT: Here's the backstory from the game's website, as well as a link to the site. http://0x10c.com/
Will it be a combination of Wurm/Minecraft and EVE? Because that's what I got out of it. But yeah, let's lynch that fat, greedy, bastard!
I think it's fairly impossible to say what it will be at this point, because we haven't seen anything actually from the game, apart from the logo of the site, which Notch claims "was rendered in game."
Actually, no. The multiplayer part of the game will have a monthly subscription fee. The singleplayer won't. As I understand it anyway.
You've missed an important part of the game. It aims to teach its players assembly programming on a 1980's era computer. The premise of the game is based around this - an error in programming resulted in the wrong value of years the deep sleep system would run. Each ship will have a computer, which will have "a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish." There are already communities working out how to program the CPU, and already people are having problems with Notch's shoddy coding knowledge. http://fail0verflow.com/blog/2012/dcpu-16-review.html I see graphics have taken a massive step up. He has learned that there are such things as "shaders" and that you actually can have a model with more than six polygons. I hope so, but I wouldn't count on it. The way his fans behave indicate that since Notch blatantly ripped off another game without giving credit almost two years ago, he's now a flawless god of everything, and all criticism against him is forbidden or invalid. It's ridiculous. He's a pretty average programmer with some good ideas, now everyone has to love everything he does. I thought Notch charging people for an alpha of Minecraft was a little questionable, but he didn't have much money and it was a small one off payment. But now he's asking for monthly payments when he has a massive load of cash from the massive Minecraft sales. And millions of people will love him for it. Here is a screenshot, there are more on this link http://0x10cforum.com/forum/m/4932880/viewforum/1141857 Yes that is a TF2 soldier, it's just a placeholder though.
I don't know why he needs money from monthly fees he's already a millionaire maybe with his monthly subscription fees he can become the first gaming billionaire.
Sales of the Minecraft game alone total over $80 million USD. That doesn't include revenue from merchandise (T-shirts mostly, but also socks and soon, Lego), licensing deals, and upcoming TV shows. That's a huge number in anyone's book, but for a small (25 employees) indie developer with very low costs (Minecraft cost very little to make and had little paid marketing), that's absolutely monumental. Notch doesn't need anything from the community to build his next game at all. Put it this way - the production of GTA IV employed over 1000 people. It was meticulously designed and had extreme attention to detail. Its script is 4,000 A4 pages long, all delivered by hundreds of paid voice actors. There were several fully realized radio stations, TV stations, stores, billboard ads, and in-game internet. It utilizes dozens of middleware for which it has to pay large licensing fees for. They also had to pay for the manufacture of millions of discs and cases. The game was heavily promoted across the world on TV, radio, and billboards in Times Square. The cost of all this? About $100 million, 20% more than what Minecraft has made. 0x10c will be an extremely basic game. Why is Notch asking for money he doesn't need at all?
Well it's the truth, no-one on this planet can deny that he is greedy and say that isn't why he's doing this payment plan.
If I was him, I would take my share of the eighty million dollars, and buy a huuuuge bag of weed, and just go to Spain or Portugal or some shit, and just give people free weed like santa clause. That would make up for his greediness. Also everybody in the world needs to watch the film Paprika. Just sayin'.
You missed the main point of that, post, that you, and every other human being with the ability to process thoughts, should be watching the movie Paprika right now.
I'm sorry to say that people generally ignore my shameless advertising of the movie as well. However I'm actually kind of excited for this game should it turn out to be good. It doesn't matter what Notch does as long as he delivers a experience that I am willing to pay for because I genuinely have a lot of fun with it. Definitely not picking this shit up in alpha though.
Sounds sorta like Space Station 13, it has most of those features. Except it's released, free, and 2D.
