You have to understand, Notch is in his after story. He doesn't want to make anything revolutionary, and he definitely doesn't want to make anything that will require a heavy responsibility. It will be cool if what he makes is actually a lot of fun, but I'm with him on not making anything crazy spectacular.
this is one of the most interesting questions about someone who makes something big, was it luck or was it the artists skill? Always interesting to speculate
@@toycat They say the Sherlock Homes book series got famous due to it's time pessimistic feeling. It all adds up to a good game! But just luck isn't enough. It adds up to the fact it's ahead of it's time of release.
@@toycatI read a book called “Outliers” that attempted to answer that very question. The answer is lots and lots of both. How did the Beatles, Bill Gates, or Michael Jordan become such wildly successful “outliers”? Lots of natural talent followed by thousands of hours of obsessive practice. The researchers calculated that unusual talent paired with at least 10,000 hours of practice were necessary to be considered a “master” of any given skill. 🏆 Edit: Probably should have mentioned that talent is far from the only component of luck; right time, right place, etc.
Hope life’s treating notch well, last I heard the dude’s been really depressed and lonely. Good to see he’s working on something he’s passionate about again. Edit: so I came back 3 months later and just wanted to say I had no idea of how bad the things he did are, all I’m gonna add is it’s better that we let the guy do something productive than… uhh… whatever that is under the “controversies” tab on his Wikipedia page…
@@jameswesten2018 money can't buy you happiness. I'm not saying it's impossible to be a millionaire/billionaire and also be a happy person, but just because you are a billionaire doesn't mean you are automatically happy.
Almost reminds me of a more "Daggerfall" style game, maybe Notch is taking some inspiration from Daggerfall. Either way, I don't think this should be viewed as a new Minecraft. This is interesting and I wish him luck.
completely agreed i think this needs to be viewed separately from minecraft and im trying to see it as if notch is just some random game dev who made a few projects before but like lets say if mc never got big. THEN how would people see this project, yknow? i think it is really interesting and if he plays his cards right this could end up being a really good game. also on an unrelated note notch’s name being stripped from the game and him not getting even invited to anything? like i know mc and mojang nowadays are trying to be way more socially aware and inclusive and all that good stuff but at least give bro respect for making the basis of everything mojang has ever done. Like if i was in a company and someone who was in it did something wrong or controversial, i would definitely still show at least that small level of respect of acknowledging the awesome things they did do, yknow?
@@AbrahamLincolnOfficialChannel Yeah and the thing is, that many of the higher ups at Mojang were also close to him and now seemingly don't want anything to do with Notch anymore, just because of some meaningless controversies. It's a bit sad seeing that kind of thing divide people.
@@Sinhsseax yeah like i don’t agree with some of the stuff notch has done but i still absolutely respect the man for everything he’s done how can his own former company not
@@Sinhsseax Uh, sorry but those were NOT meaningless controversies. That's VERY heavy stuff, matters of _life & death_ for countless people. Someone so influential broadcasting borderline death threats to vulnerable groups of people, repeatedly, is dangerous. And sentiments like that are taking off so much that horrible laws are being passed once again (in the U.S. at least) that are cutting back centuries of equality progress in a matter of about 5 years! 😥 It's a big deal, objectively, & Mojang appropriately treated it as such.
Why would Notch think that minecraft is dead? Yeah the monetisation is dogsh*t, but just looking at the modding community, minecraft will always exist.
I'm not sure why people keep commenting something along the lines of "this isn't gonna be anywhere near as big as Minecraft". Yes, obviously. Why does it need to be as big as Minecraft to be worth creating? Why should Notch seek the same highs of Minecraft? Also thank you for being impartial. The discourse surrounding Notch is straight up painful and I'm glad to have gotten no opinion on it.
I think trying to ignore your biases should be more encouraged. We all have them but we should try and understand the world first, before applying them
try out this seed on chunkbase: -5592633653095784779 has cherry grove inside a mountain ring, with ancient city and trial chamber underneath, large jungle, flower forest, warm ocean, mushroom island with trial chamber underneath, and desert (both the trial chambers are not there on bedrock) also has sculk at y=94 in a crack in the cherry grove mountain ring please put this in seed sunday!
Toycat mostly plays Bedrock since that's what his videos are specifically targeting, it's actually the main reason I'm subscribed because too many Minecraft RU-vidrs only do stuff for Java or don't even specify which version their advice is for. So the trial spawners probably wouldn't be there if he does showcase it unfortunately, but it does sound like an interesting seed nonetheless. If you load up the seed 3245306101084496 in Bedrock you spawn right beside a village with 4 blacksmiths, and the village is within sight of a beached shipwreck and ruined portal. If you like ocean monuments this is the seed for you though because I think I counted 21 in the ocean beside spawn, all within about 1500-2k blocks of spawn.
@@douggiles7647 You are right, there are les trial chambers on bedrock edition with this seed, but there is still one underneath the jungle biome close by, stil an ancient city under the mountain ring, and also i'm pretty sure sculk at y = 94 is a world record, toycat has a video where he showcases skulk at y = 72
When he created minecraft it was fairly well optimized because remember, this is 2009 we talking about. Many computers used single core processors. Also the game didn't have nearly as much stuff (full release 1.0). Now that it has so much stuff it is becoming a problem. It's the same with windows. Windows XP and onwards are all based on Windows NT which is really old, even win11 is based on old windows NT. Windows is sluggish and slow for the same reason, the old code simply wasn't made for so much stuff
@@bobjones1999with all the terrible performance I've been getting on bedrock compared to java, on the same device no less, i can't take this seriously
I hope notch is doing a bit better, I know online echo chambers can lead you to believe some pretty rough stuff and see the world in a distorted way. I use to look up to him, still do in a way. I look forward to see what he's working on
I mean you can always separate the art from the artist in my opinion while keeping criticisms as them as a person. Dr Suess cheated on his wife dying of cancer and she later offed herself, Kanye went on saying crazy things about Jewish people, and Christian Bale is one of the most mean spirited people in hollywood, but their works are consistently top notch. Its fair to criticize them but people shouldnt be ostracized for liking their stuff. 90% of them are horrible people behind closed doors anyways.
@@Zzzodiackillerrr I do my best to separate the art from the artist, i just genuinely want to see him improve and be a better person. im still probably going to check the game out regardless
@@Zzzodiackillerrr That separation only means so much if you line their pockets with money, though. I simply don't give my money or provide a platform to creators I find out have harmed others or spread harmful beliefs. It's just as fair to criticize people for participating in that as it is to criticize the creators themselves; I'd argue your moral compass is pretty weak if you'd willfully hand over your money to someone committing harm for a luxury item.
@@cccreaturefeatureI thought Bill Cosby was hilarious growing up. I love “Beat It!” in particular by Michael Jackson. I feel weird about both of those facts now… 😬
The idea of Notch making a new hit game is really optimistic, not saying it's bad. Minecraft is a huge hit due to it's completely original game style, innovation and time of release, for it's time it's ahead and it became so iconic that it wont die down easily. For Notch to really make something that outshines it's past creation he would have to do the conditions above. In my personal opinion this is getting a lot of attention because it comes from Notch himself. That aside, it looks good visually, doom is really something Notch likes taking into account his other creations before minecraft. Taking a critical view, if good visual it's the only good thing it has then it will fall into the same problem of modern games pumping the visuals and forgetting gameplay. I hope it becomes a good game, will definitively try to play :3
You keep using that words "completely original". *I do not think it means what you think it means.* 1. Notch *ripped off* _Inifiminer's_ voxel gameplay. He gave them credit on his blog. 2. Mojang copied *40+ mod features into vanilla.* You can find a complete list searching for: _I came up with a list of features which appeared in vanilla minecraft after they became popular from mods._ i.e. Slime Blocks was coded by ZipKrowd, Panda4994 and JL2579. They gave their code to Mojang. 3. Even the *name came from someone on the TIG* (The Independent Gaming) forum.
It took making and selling the most popular game of all time, multiple controversial Twitter posts, and 10 years of isolation and depression for Notch to finally continue working on Rubydung?
He talked about a new mechanic that might be saved for a sequel, but contemplating on how different it would make the game compared the first. If he reads this comments for whatever reason I would recommend adding them into the current game and label when the mechanic shows up as a "part two".
Or just add the mechanic; celeste adds an extra dash at the very last parts. Mechanics being added in the middle of a game isnt at all a new concept, its the entirety of the concept behind metroidvanias
I think Notch did a great job with the initial concept and developing the game’s ethos; but I think he is bitter about giving MC up. I know it’s frustrating watching something you made change, but him constantly criticizing the game is an ironic resemblance of fans criticizing the game when he was developing it, leading to its sale in the first place.
As if Notch gives a $#!t. He doesn't. He got what he cared about, the only thing he cared about once his britches got to big. Notch: "Microsoft is terrible." Also Notch: "Gimme a piles of money and Minecraft is yours."
He lost mine when the year after calling Microsoft a bad company then turns around and sells his intellectual property to Microsoft. He's just a big phony.
Hopefully it's not just a clone of Minecraft Edit: to clarify I just hope that he doesn't make a game that's basically the same thing as Minecraft but only slightly different.
0:50 clearly he wasn't wrong. Had he actually be allowed a major role without getting hate for it we probably wouldn't have dumb things like mob votes. Or any of the countless other problems
@@hehasnolips1371 mf he made one of the most successful games of all time. Clearly he's good at more than "being a horrible person". Also, mind elaborating exactly how he's been a horrible person? The Wikipedia section shows that he walked away from his more controversial opinions, and he's been fairly quiet for years. When someone has what you consider to be harmful opinions, the only way to get them to change is to offer help. Why are they harmful? How could they think of the situation differently? Empathize with the person, offer them a hand and if you're truly correct they'll very likely follow you. Just flat out saying "he's a horrible person" is just going to make him go further into that direction, but I guess that's what you lot usually want anyways.
@@dpgwalterI agree, it really bothered me looking at some of their tweets, pretending he didn’t make the biggest game ever or individual complicated individual rather that a person with just a bad opinion= horrible person. I think people should discuss why people believe things more rather than quote tweet and make fun of them. As u said it just leads to nothing but having them stand their ground and the quote tweeters ego being ever more inflated and notch being even “worse”.
he did? dude that's incredible, now i'm really excited. I just recently listened to c418's other albums like One, Dief, Excursions, and Cookie Clicker and they're all just as good as Minecraft alpha and beta imo.
I'm excited to see what Notch is working on after a 10 year absence from game development. He's had all the money one could ever realistically dream of but no drive to keep him going, it seems like he's re-exploring his past hobbies.
I don't think minecraft is necessarily dead, but it has been having problems with a general lack of focus recently, not dead though. Notch's frustrations are genuinely respectable but creating a game that even holds a candle to minecraft and his own legacy is gonna be a crazy task.
Maybe he doesn't want to? He's set for life and thus doesn't need to make something with the budget of a best seller, he's just making a game for the love of creation.
@@jeremychicken3339 which i honestly kind of admire him for, he doesn't have to or need to make a new game, but still does because he's genuinely passionate about gaming
Mojang and Microsoft watching as notch drops his real project that he’s been brewing in his mind since day 1. As notch breaks the internet repeating the minecraft effect on the internet but 10 times stronger.
It would be REALLY funny, but unfortunately, I don't think the Minecraft community(the majority of the new players for levers and chests) will be patient enough for the game to develop and update after release
He’s in a hard position because it’s almost impossible for him to avoid disappointing people when anything he produces, especially anything in the style of Minecraft, is going to be compared to present day Minecraft
@alzetilted33 nope minecraft back 2013 and 2014 was slow to get updates mainly bug fixes nothing that new was added ti till notch handing keys over to microsoft made game better much of new content brought in way more players and way more to do and to explore. Look up the logistics on player count and updates. the only update i hated would be combat which needs a newer update but i mainly play bedrock so i don't have that issue anymore.
but it is terrible for some people, minecraft has been a huge part of a lot of people's lives, and to know that its original creator despises them as a person for something they cant control would feel awful. If notch does manage to make a good game, I will be pirating it
I honestly don’t think Notch needs to make a game as big as Minecraft. As long as he makes something he enjoys and is of quality, even if it’s niche, I’d say he’s a successful game developer.
I would feel sorry for him for ‘not needing to be creative anymore‘, for feeling lonely and depressed, for seeing his masterpiece changed in ways he may not like, for chasing this high that he may never reach again. But then I think about all the controversial, up to awful things he said in the past, the tone of his tweets that are often times leaning salty and realise that there are worse situations to feel lonely and depressed in as in a pile of money (like being lonely and depressed without a pile of money like the rest of us, for example). It's always a bit sad when role models you had as a young person don't live up to the ideal version you had of them in your head, which is not their fault since you created this unrealistic ideal in your head, but it's disappointing nonetheless. Thinking about a certain children's book author aswell, not only Notch. While I do hope he has a good life and can explore his creativity free from the pressure of financial success I also let Notch go in my mind and try to enjoy the masterpiece separately from it's master. Thanks for coming to my TED-talk.
I'm optimistic that he's doing better now. Afaik he hasn't said anything like that in years. I'm guessing it was a period where he fell into an echo chamber, but hopefully has since escaped.
@@vibaj16 Thanks for this update, since I stopped reading about him some years ago I wouldn't have known that he's doing better now. also yay for xkcd if that is your profile pic.
Going over that very briefing there from Wiki (terrible source BTW), he hasn't said anything entirely untrue. Q was incorrect about a lot of things, but the on goings with That Island and P Diddy show there was some truth in all the craziness. 3rd wave feminism and beyond has proven to be a detriment to women and men, creating toxic relationships and sending women into more depression than ever before. Being trans is *bnormal and being is a denial of your b*ology - nothing about that is healthy or should be celebrated as a great achievement. And if you think it's horrible to say "it's okay to be - you know the rest", that "dog whistle" is for you. Oh, and Quinn is a hotly debated lady who looked to have purposely triggered an ex's yeet from existence in an attempt to garner attention and pity points out of spite for his sucsess. Criticizing her is far from monstrous. I'll even do it at the drop of a hat. Notch might've had some saucier ways to put those actual mild takes, but never the less, nothing I see there is a means to try and delete him from existence or regard him as a terrible person. I hear far worse things on the opposite spectrum of him just about every week. Now, I'm not telling you that you should like him personally, you're free to think what you will. Just know that not every opposition you hear of comes from a place of ill intent. I do however, respect your well-wishing and your ability to separate the art from the artist. Jim Carry has some head-empty hot takes that make me sigh, but I still love the heck out of his movies.
The thing that most people don't think about with some game devs like notch is that they don't get attached to the games they create aka for notch, he isn't proud of Minecraft itself, but rather how far it has come
I honestly get why Notch doesn’t like Minecraft’s direction right now. Caves and cliffs was a nightmare and 1.20 was like putting a band-aid on a severed limb. 1.21 looks cool (especially The Mace) but I don’t know if it will fix things.
@@ZiddersRooFurry yes it’s “fine” but the caves and cliffs update was really poorly executed. I love Minecraft and play it everyday and 1.21 looks really promising but just saying I get why Notch would have some criticism towards it. Especially with the way Microsoft treated C418
I like a lot of the stuff they’ve added to Minecraft over the years, but like u said the execution of it has just been bad, not to mention their treatment of c418 and the whole corporate overlord situation. My biggest issue with the game itself tho is the execution of these updates, they feel like, kind of lackluster. Caves and Cliffs breathed new life into the game (would have been way better if it was released as one update) and 1.21 looks good, but aside from that, a lot of the updates to the game these past few years have not been very memorable or added in anything substantial / interesting. 1.21 feels refreshing to me and I’m excited for it
I agree with him to an extend. MC has gotten stale and they refuse to update it with content regularly. It takes forever to get a full update out in chunks. Even the RTX version announced long ago never came.
@@beenwiki665 As far as I'm aware, he's recanted what he said about the LGBT community. Regardless, I am curious as to why you don't think it's normal?
@@Yea___ In the traditional sense, yes. However, words can have more than one meaning, can they not? Similar to how gay can be used to denote lightheartedness rather than same-sex attraction, queer can be used as a blanket term for people within the community as opposed to just meaning that of which is unusual. Regardless, I doubt that the original replier intended their statement as much more than an insult, so arguing dictionary definitions is pointless.
Notch is alot of things, but he's not lazy when it comes to his games...soooo I do see potential, I'll try it out when it comes out. if it ever comes out.
I think Notch's opinions are interesting to read because he just thinks what he thinks and doesn't care what you think of him, but also, clearly is willing to listen when people explain things to him, take back his words and say "I guess that's cool actually, nvm." 😆 he's both liberal, conservative, and conspiracy theorist. He is just unapologetically himself and not afraid to disagree with people and talk about it. We need more people like that in the world.
Notch makes me sad… I understand that he’s moved on and that I have to respect that, but it makes me sad that he cares so little for Minecraft now. When I was younger, I always wanted to meet Notch, say hi to him… But it’s clear he wants to do nothing with Minecraft anymore :(
I think his little project will gain traction in the first quarter after a bunch of youtubers give it a go, but I honestly don't think it'll hold it's own like Minecraft did. Minecraft was born in the golden age of youtube, things are far different today.
I thought minecraft just recently became ten times better than it ever was before with the advention of the add-on packs that make it so you can basically have a multitude of different mash-ups of your own choosing instead of being at the mercy of those who make the packs
Minecraft is an amazing game. I don't know how notch says now that the game sucks. It got so many sold copies for people who love and play minecraft. Please!! Continue with minecraft
Honestly, I have more hope that being forced to work with a group helps notch get out of his antisemetic and transphobic mindset because now he's forced to actually interact with a variety of people rather than just his twitter circle.