FortressCraft sells $1.5 million worth on Xbox Live, but Microsoft hasn't paid the developer a singl
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Do you really think MS is going to pay a dev that is ripping off something they are going to be publishing?
NOPE.
No one deserves to have their money stolen, especially by a greedy corporation like Microsoft.
That being said, I played the demo after hearing a bunch of rage over this game a few months back. I managed to place a handful of the like 20 different blocks you can choose to place. There's nothing else, no trees, random terrible landscape, nothing to explore, nothing to survive from, no enemies.
The game itself was unplayable, I managed to get 20 minutes until massive graphical errors made placing and even deleting blocks impossible, random landscape started disappearing and it repeatedly said I was getting eaten by 'grubbs' or something and respawning in the exact same spot.
About 30 minutes in (not quite sure how I lasted that long) I just gave up.
This game is an absolutely terrible piece of shit, but Microsoft has no right to hold on to the developers money like some angry parent from their child.
[url]http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/DJ_KEEMSTAR[/url]
this is one of the guys
You guys do realise FC is still being updated? It's progressively getting better. When I first played it, it was horrible, but now I'm getting to like it. If you recall, Minecraft was terrible in the alpha.
[QUOTE=Soviet Bread;32364999]You guys do realise FC is still being updated? It's progressively getting better. When I first played it, it was horrible, but now I'm getting to like it. If you recall, Minecraft was terrible in the alpha.[/QUOTE]
Do you realize this is a horrible clone?
[editline]19th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;32364863][url]http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/DJ_KEEMSTAR[/url]
this is one of the guys[/QUOTE]
Yes, This is the PR. The one that was spreading the lies how notch was sueing them. I wrote some of the newer parts of the article.
He's also got a massive ego and thinks he's some bigshot.
[QUOTE=timothy80;32365046]Do you realize this is a horrible clone?[/QUOTE]
It was designed to bring a minecraft style game to xboxlive. No one is denying this is a clone or variation. Only you guys are claiming that is the case.
Duno how it sold that much...
It's not like Minecraft is a godsend of a game anyways. Business is business.
This reminds me of when notch didnt get his money from paypal or whatever it was about.
Yeah, that must suck to know that you are due such a large sum of money but haven't received it yet. He still put effort in to that game
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;32363890]Well that really isn't a game difference. I wonder how the creature of infiminer feels knowing that he was the one who started the whole thing. I wonder if hes proud or angry that he wasn't the one that got the money.[/QUOTE]He has actually stated in a podcast that he is very flattered that a game based off of his game has become successfull. Let me see if I can find it!
Edit; found it:
[url]http://www.indiegames.com/2011/03/indiegamescom_podcast_17_zach.html[/url]
Skip ahead to ~15 minuter unless you want to hear about space chem.
Maybe microsoft is giving the money to Mojang instead, they're the ones who actually made the game.
[QUOTE=IMoo;32362873]Yeah man especially when there are games like
[img]http://www.armlessoctopus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/bm1.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
that game is fun as hell
[QUOTE=qwerty000;32358380]What did he do? I just want to know more.[/QUOTE]
He tends to go on long profane rants at the slightest criticism.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;32365755]Maybe microsoft is giving the money to Mojang instead, they're the ones who actually made the game.[/QUOTE]After looking at the game it seems more like infiminer or minecraft classic then current minecraft. Nothing to do but build with nothing messing with them.
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;32365845]After looking at the game it seems more like infiminer or minecraft classic then current minecraft. Nothing to do but build with nothing messing with them.[/QUOTE]
Mojang still made minecraft classic.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;32365873]Mojang still made minecraft classic.[/QUOTE] Well yea but minecraft classic came from infiminer.
[QUOTE=Unsmart;32360506]At least they have better water reflections...[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXxDnx_UE6I&feature=sh_e_se&list=SL[/url]
Why didn't i think of making a minecraft knock off for Xbox and make a million dollars?
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;32365917]Well yea but minecraft classic came from infiminer.[/QUOTE]
Nowhere near as directly as fortresscraft comes from minecraft classic. I'll recognize it as it's own game when he does something with it you can't get in minecraft.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;32365975]Nowhere near as directly as fortresscraft comes from minecraft classic. [/QUOTE] Yea but if were giving money by who made the game the money would go through the line of inspiration. So it would be fortresscraft->minecraft->infiminer meaning that small dev would wake up to find a few million on his front lawn. Unless of course infiminer was inspired by dig dug.
I guess if I remade [I]pong[/I] on the-
wait everything has pong [B][I]FUCK[/I][/B]
This is usually how this kind of stuff works, you don't receive the cut right away and it was probably in his contract with Microsoft, had he bothered to read it. It usually takes a few months to get said "cut".
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;32366059]Yea but if were giving money by who made the game the money would go through the line of inspiration. So it would be fortresscraft->minecraft->infiminer meaning that small dev would wake up to find a few million on his front lawn. Unless of course infiminer was inspired by dig dug.[/QUOTE]
Really the only major similarities between mincraft and infiniminer are the art style and the blocky world.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;32366415]Really the only major similarities between mincraft and infiniminer are the art style and the blocky world.[/QUOTE] Yea but blocks is practically all classic minecraft is about. Minecraft classic is practically infiminer.
Don't you guys see that people like FortressCraft just because they're Xbox fanboys and "fourtreescraphft haz b3tt3r gr@phx hurr"
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;32366415]Really the only major similarities between mincraft and infiniminer are the art style and the blocky world.[/QUOTE]
Haha.
You can literally say the same exact thing about Minecraft and FortressCraft.
Horrible clone looking at the videos. If you have a blocky game, don't have all those "shiny"(really ugly) graphics for water and effects.
Don't have those flashing block selections. Don't make the game just to ride on Minecraft's success(you all know thats why he did it). Don't use textures that similar. The list goes on. @notch haters: Oh notch takes breaks and doesn't release updates every week, so what? Bigger updates work for me. Small little minor and insignificant updates don't matter anymore. Its out of alpha phase. Alpha wasn't that bad, either, to all the haters of it. Jesus christ people bandwagon so much.
[QUOTE=Map in a box;32366900]The list goes on. @notch haters: Oh notch takes breaks and doesn't release updates every week, so what? Bigger updates work for me.[/QUOTE] I think the game should have changed more in 9 months. I have been playing the game since then and it hasn't really changed much. Compared to other indiegames like overgrowth and natural selection which are making way less money they update faster and with more content. So far minecraft hasn't really changed that much especially by how easy it is to work with. I don't hate notch but I would expect faster updates for something that made him millions.
it takes time to release big updates. You cant expect for them to finish the, say, adventure update in 1 day.
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