You don't already do this? Well...I don't, either, but I absolutely adore the idea! Mostly because I love tormenting testificates because they irritate the bajeesus outta me.
Opinions on Microsoft buying Mojang
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I've always wondered about suggesting human (testificate) transmutation to Pahimar for EE3. Sacrifice a village, get a philosopher's stone. Maybe even have it so you have to lay down the actual transmutation circle and activate it with a minium stone. I just dunno if that's too evil an idea for someone as nice as Pahimar, lol.
Yeaaaaaah, but I was thinking more something from Fullmetal Alchemist, hence why I'd thought it'd fit in better with EE3 than Blood Magic.
Or going into creative, creating a pit of zombies, then feeding them villagers. Or going into creative, finding a village, releasing dozens of zombies, then break their doors down while setting up TNT and blowing the whole mess up. In Monster you can amplify this with nukes, or just use the Witchery mod. Nuff said.[DOUBLEPOST=1410877513][/DOUBLEPOST]This reminds me of the time I pushed a pig off a mountain. Right before it fell it looked at me with sad eyes of despair that said "Why?"
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There would need to be a balancing factor, since you can just farm villagers so easily.
For every 10 or 20 villagers you sacrifice this way a humonculus (hostile) spawns?
Only once? My favorite means of getting steak is dipping cows in lava with a gravity gun. Also evil is more evil without creative mode. It's all the more sinister when you have to work for it.
For every 10 or 20 villagers you sacrifice this way a humonculus (hostile) spawns?
Only once? My favorite means of getting steak is dipping cows in lava with a gravity gun. Also evil is more evil without creative mode. It's all the more sinister when you have to work for it.
One of my favorites (not necessarily evil) was spawning 10 of each twilight forest boss, including withers, and watching an all out battle in an arena made purely of nukes. Yes my game crashed hard lol.
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Macs are just running a version of BSD Unix with lipstick, rouge and eye shadow applied liberally. You can do the same on PC/Clone hardware and usually for free. The last time I looked Oracle was still offering free downloads of SUN Solaris, another version of Berkeley Unix (SUN also crated Java, BTW) and there are numerous linux distributions available.
Unlike the PC/Clone market you will never see hardware expandability/customization on an Apple product because there is only one Mac manufacturer, and they LIKE the fact that Mac users seem to have no problem paying their (outrageous IMHO) prices to buy whole new systems periodically. As far as Macbooks are concerned, almost all laptops, note/netbooks, and tablets are not upgradable beyond perhaps the hard drive and ram.
Don't forget... There's also a cinematic movie in the works and I've heard rumors of perhaps a TV series. Add to that the gravitas that XBox and Windows Phone would pick up among younger customers if Minecraft came free with each...
Sorry, I won't be playing tiny violins for Notch. He is the absolute worst type of developer/businessman--an absentee one with strong opinions and power. He said he had stepped back from MC development and he did, mostly. But he'd still put a toe in the water whenever something didn't suit him, taking to Twitter and reddit to opine and decree and dictate. I imagine there was a fair amount of behind-the-scenes opining, decreeing, and dictating going on, too. Anyone with an annual $100+ million to rub together and a true desire to step away from his insanely popular product would hire a sizable development team with a good team lead, get some good community management people, consult with actual lawyers instead of having laymen write "legally binding" blog posts, install a new CEO, and then actually shut up and walk away. Notch did many of these things, but not the most important one. Worst of all, he insisted that Mojang remain a tiny, "indie" dev studio that allowed its developers to directly communicate with the public, often in disastrous ways. For the highest selling PC game of all time. He got lucky, and he's right about that. If he couldn't keep his fingers out of Minecraft/Mojang without selling it, that's his failing.
Plenty of people have thanked Notch over the years. The community shouldn't be expected to kiss his ring in perpetuity.
Notch started a trend, a community, a generation. Then gave us to Microsoft, a company known to mess big projects up. Sorry but I'm pretty pissed. You don't see Blizzard or Square Enix doing that type of crap. When they want somthing new, they just do it. Not sell out. They work on new projects while keeping their old and original community happy.
How did they ruin anything? In the mmorpg world every person virtually, or in my actual life plays new mmos then goes back to WoW months later. Minecraft was the one and only exception I've found thus far. I may have just said Minecraft was the one and only WoW killer. Can I say that?
Considering Activision is basically the new EA, I'd be a LOT more scared for Minecraft's future if they had acquired Mojang. Thankfully, Microsoft actually seems to be a bit hands-off, which for a publisher, is good.
You can say whatever you please. Every person seems to include the millions of users they've lost since it's high point. And it's still bleeding players all the time. I'll admit I did the WoW- find another game -WoW cycle once. Second time was for good, and that was... four years ago now. I seem to recall oceans of tears at starcraft 2's release due to the DRM and server issues. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Diablo
Agreed whole heartedly. If Activision or EA got a hold of Mojang, we'd be looking at some rather ugly problems.
Edit: I'm a derp. Meant Diablo III not II.
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Well, I was in early beta, so I think I can answer this.
As somebody who came directly from EverQuest, the game at launch was amazing. It had a little something for everybody, and didn't oversimplify or act too hand-holdy, but yet it didn't leave you hanging the way EQ did at times. It struck a good balance between the casual and the hardcore.
I canceled my account 3 days after we killed Naxx 1.0, not long before Wrath, but I've hopped back in from time to time with their free 7 day passes, scrolls of resurrection that have been sent to me, and so on.
The game today? Completely Unrecognizable, and not just in a physical sense (cataclysms kinda change things, yeah), I'm talking Everything. I mainly dislike that it has become a race to the bottom, "We must make *all* content accessible to *all* people." That and they've so badly mangled my hunter class that I have zero desire to ever play her again.
Is the game ruined for everybody? No, there are many that enjoy the game as it is now, but they can't deny that subscriptions are bleeding at an increasing pace. Notice all of the realm mergers? That's a shrinking playerbase.
I don't disagree with the whole Activision, EA, Blizz thing. I do disagree with Mojang however. The truth is I hold a deep hateful grudge for what Microsoft did to Rare. I know, I know, Rare let itself become the disgrace it became to its fans. Microsoft didn't have much to do with it besides funding. Did you ever see banjo kazooie nuts n bolts? I almost contemplated suicide over that bs.