FortressCraft sells $1.5 million worth on Xbox Live, but Microsoft hasn't paid the developer a singl
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[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;32358364]ITT: Every one thinks Minecraft was the first to do that art style.[/QUOTE]
If you watched some fortress craft footage you can see that it is essentially the same fucking game without mobs.
[QUOTE=Falchion;32359020]If you watched some fortress craft footage you can see that it is essentially the same fucking game without mobs.[/QUOTE]
It has conveyer belts, relics and jump pads, which Minecraft doesn't have vanilla, so it has that.
He's getting paid his million dollars just not right now.
Looks decent, but it's a painfully obvious clone. Sure, minecraft copied infiniminer, but it evolved. This is barely diverging from minecraft.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32358367]It wouldn't matter if the game was made by Adolf Hitler himself[/QUOTE]
That was fast
It doesn't matter if it is a minecraft clone, it's not for Microsoft to withhold his money.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;32359252]That was fast[/QUOTE]
It's only a godwin if you compare someone to hitler/nazis bro
If you guys what to make a thread about how fortrescraft is a copy you go do that.
The topic is about microsoft being dicks for not giving him the money
I can't say I'd have seen that coming, but I sure as hell can say I'm not surprised.
[QUOTE=postmanX3;32358878]Ha, karma is a bitch.[/QUOTE]
In what way is it karma?
[QUOTE=Janizaurd;32358577]Seiously? The best selling indie game is a blatant copy of Minecraft?[/QUOTE] No the best selling indie game (minecraft) is a blatant copy of Infiniminer.
[sp]Not defending fc but I would like it if infiminer got more recognition for starting the mining craze[/sp]
god damn it I only have 200 points
[QUOTE=wanksta11;32359652]god damn it I only have 200 points[/QUOTE]
It's not a good game. It's sloppily hamfisted together.
Funny how in that FortressCraft video, the guy asks: "What are the REAL differences between FortressCraft and Minecraft?"
The guy named a few: "The look. The range at which you can manipulate blocks. Your avatar."
Sure are some REAL differences there. In all seriousness though, I don't really care whether it's a clone or not. Microsoft should pay up if that was the deal, which I am sure it is.
Soooooo... I don't exactly play minecraft. But from the looks of it, and assuming different things here. Looks like fortress craft is a pile of shit tbh, and a direct rip. Well maybe not EXACTLY a direct rip. But it sure has the same fucking stripped concept to hell.
[QUOTE=Cone;32358329]While it does suck that it's just a Minecraft clone - and that, from what I've heard, the creator of this game is a raging asshat - it's still a real dick move not to pay this dude.[/QUOTE]
Ahem, It's not the creator that is a raging asshat, It's the PR.
DJArcas is a really nice guy.
looks kinda cool, but WAY over done
I'll stick to the original MineCraft, thanks. I prefer the simple look of it, not all these overdone grass and sun effects, and water effects.
Adding 'realistic' effects makes it look like shit IMHO
[QUOTE=TheJoker;32358692]If he even put any in it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, *does* it even exist?!?!
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;32359619]No the best selling indie game (minecraft) is a blatant copy of Infiniminer.[/QUOTE]
No please [B]god[/B] no that's like saying Half-Life is a blatant copy of Quake. Why don't people drop the hostile undertones and look at reality - MC was clearly inspired by IM and expanded on it and Notch acknowledges this. Notch in turn says that he encourages games to do the same with Minecraft, rather than simply re-making it. I would say FC is a simple remake (in your words, "blatant copy", fuck off with "blatant"), whereas something like Terraria is inspired and expanded from the concept.
People need to understand that block-based sandbox shenanigans are a genre now, not ONE SINGLE GAME. If you say Minecraft is a "blatant copy" of Infiniminer then you'd better also agree that Half-Life is a "blatant copy" of Quake.
Fuck off with the minor sensationalist claims when it comes to this shit.
[QUOTE=Killer900;32358354][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_roZk-EjOQ[/media]
Looks like shit imo[/QUOTE]
At least they have better water reflections...
[QUOTE=Higginz511;32358356]Give the money to notch[/QUOTE]
Give the money to Zachtronics.
The most entertaining thing to do on the game (and that isn't saying much) is find the raygun and join small childrens' servers and listen to their cries of despair as you destroy their life's work.
Not sure how it works with XNA games, but working at a Rock Band Network authoring studio (which uses the XNA framework to pump dlc to the marketplace), Microsoft takes 70% of the profits and pays out quarterly, typically at the absolute last minute possible.
So it takes a while before they'll cut the check.
[QUOTE=fenwick;32360535]Give the money to Zachtronics.[/QUOTE]
Give the money to Child's Play.
Anyone else remember when all FPSes were called "DOOM clones"?
[QUOTE=fenwick;32360583]Anyone else remember when all FPSes were called "DOOM clones"?[/QUOTE]
Yes this this this is exactly my point.
[QUOTE=Riutet;32358829]Also the article is wrong in claiming that Minecraft is a clone of another game (Infiniminer)[/QUOTE] It is. The only reason he was able to ad more is because he got so much money from it. I'm not saying minecraft isn't a great game but it was originally a infiminer clone that got enough support to keep on getting updated unlike infiminer. Even at this stage it isn't that different from infiminer but with better map generator and AI. I would say the differences between minecraft and fortress craft aren't that much bigger then minecraft and fortress craft. Especially smaller then the differences between minecraft and terraria even though everyone calls that a clone.
[QUOTE=Unsmart;32360506]At least they have better water reflections...[/QUOTE]Although there is a mod for Minecraft that gives better water reflections.
[QUOTE=Andokool12;32360471]Fuck off with the minor sensationalist claims when it comes to this shit.[/QUOTE] Well you can't say fortress craft is a blatant copy of minecraft when minecraft is just as inspired by infiminer as fortress craft is of minecraft. Thats all I'm saying. I still play minecraft and know that minecraft is funner then infiminer but don't get angry at one dev and not the other. Thats one of the things I can't stand about the minecraft community. They attack anything like it without realizing that minecraft also took from another game.
This is the kind of thing that happens a lot in medicine.
[QUOTE=geogzm;32359247]Looks decent, but it's a painfully obvious clone. Sure, minecraft copied infiniminer, but it evolved. This is barely diverging from minecraft.[/QUOTE]
Is there a source for your avatar?
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