<story><title>Notch puts 0x10c on ice</title><url>http://www.usgamer.net/articles/notch-puts-0x10c-on-icecommunity-heats-things-up-by-going-diy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>Yep. Look no further than the top comment on Hacker News to find a dismissive comment that explains exactly why the case in question is very half-assed.&lt;p&gt;You guys should really give Notch a break. He&amp;#x27;s a human like everyone else. It must be incredibly hard to work under the pressure of 100,000 derisive hackers that will use every opportunity to point out why he is inadequate. My reaction on this story is rather to call him up and go have a beer and relax somewhere. That&amp;#x27;s what you do when someone fails a project. You don&amp;#x27;t start pointing out all his previous flaws and explaining why his effort was doomed in the first place. That&amp;#x27;s antisocial. Can you imagine saying something like this to his face? Can you imagine someone saying this to &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; face?</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t surprise me at all. To be blunt, Notch&amp;#x27;s work has continually been very... half-assed.&lt;p&gt;I first felt this when I played Minecraft; with successive patches and new added elements, it always felt as if Notch had had an idea, and gone to implement it, and then never bothered to flesh it out or work out the kinks. The Nether and portal system was pretty sorry at release, with basically nothing to do in the nether; rails and carts were always minimal given the possibilities as well as having various non-obvious mechanics that were somewhat frustrating; and so on. I feel you can really see this with the help of the modding community, where often a poorly implemented idea like villages or what not is decently fleshed out by someone who had a strong interest in it.&lt;p&gt;After Notch stopped working on Minecraft, and even before, there was talk of Scrolls, and the suit with Bethesda; after some time, that sorta fell by the wayside, was eventually handed off to the rest of Mojang, and Notch went to work on 0x10c. And now that, too, has been left in incomplete form.&lt;p&gt;I dunno whether its a matter of expectations, where the massive fan responses he gets damages his creativity, or if he just loses interest in projects (I have no lack of half-completed works laying around myself) but at this point I&amp;#x27;d rather hear about a new project when its close to completion or released, rather than as he develops it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vor_</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t agree with your call for sympathy, because Notch is the one who advertised Minecraft on 4chan and Reddit and sold  early access to betas. He&amp;#x27;s the one who advertised 0x10c as a followup.&lt;p&gt;His work ethic has been criticized in the past because features introduced in one version of Minecraft would be abandoned by the next and remain incomplete. Bugs would remain unfixed for long stretches of time. There wasn&amp;#x27;t a public bug tracker (if there was any at all), so users had to list bugs themselves on a fan wiki page.&lt;p&gt;To claim that criticm is &amp;quot;antisocial&amp;quot; and that we should instead treat him as a best friend to have a beer with is an odd notion. Unless Notch is your personal friend, he is just a programmer working at a company, and the only relationship you have with him is as a customer. If you sell something, get used to criticism.</text></comment>
<story><title>Notch puts 0x10c on ice</title><url>http://www.usgamer.net/articles/notch-puts-0x10c-on-icecommunity-heats-things-up-by-going-diy</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marvin</author><text>Yep. Look no further than the top comment on Hacker News to find a dismissive comment that explains exactly why the case in question is very half-assed.&lt;p&gt;You guys should really give Notch a break. He&amp;#x27;s a human like everyone else. It must be incredibly hard to work under the pressure of 100,000 derisive hackers that will use every opportunity to point out why he is inadequate. My reaction on this story is rather to call him up and go have a beer and relax somewhere. That&amp;#x27;s what you do when someone fails a project. You don&amp;#x27;t start pointing out all his previous flaws and explaining why his effort was doomed in the first place. That&amp;#x27;s antisocial. Can you imagine saying something like this to his face? Can you imagine someone saying this to &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; face?</text></item><item><author>rndmize</author><text>This doesn&amp;#x27;t surprise me at all. To be blunt, Notch&amp;#x27;s work has continually been very... half-assed.&lt;p&gt;I first felt this when I played Minecraft; with successive patches and new added elements, it always felt as if Notch had had an idea, and gone to implement it, and then never bothered to flesh it out or work out the kinks. The Nether and portal system was pretty sorry at release, with basically nothing to do in the nether; rails and carts were always minimal given the possibilities as well as having various non-obvious mechanics that were somewhat frustrating; and so on. I feel you can really see this with the help of the modding community, where often a poorly implemented idea like villages or what not is decently fleshed out by someone who had a strong interest in it.&lt;p&gt;After Notch stopped working on Minecraft, and even before, there was talk of Scrolls, and the suit with Bethesda; after some time, that sorta fell by the wayside, was eventually handed off to the rest of Mojang, and Notch went to work on 0x10c. And now that, too, has been left in incomplete form.&lt;p&gt;I dunno whether its a matter of expectations, where the massive fan responses he gets damages his creativity, or if he just loses interest in projects (I have no lack of half-completed works laying around myself) but at this point I&amp;#x27;d rather hear about a new project when its close to completion or released, rather than as he develops it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>criley2</author><text>Jeb has done much better work than Notch maintaining the project. Minecraft has been better since Notch left his role in active development, and very few players&amp;#x2F;mod-developers would argue that point.&lt;p&gt;He doesn&amp;#x27;t have to be a whiz programmer with iron dedication. He just had to have the smarts to &lt;i&gt;hire&lt;/i&gt; one to take over the project. Which he did.</text></comment>