Because keemstar wasn't employed by him there wasn't really anything he could do about his less than stellar behaviour. If you look back at sales on XBox live indie games just prior to FC release they were frankly beyond depressing and djarcas expected it to maybe sell a couple of 1000 copies maximum, which is one of the reasons he allowed keemstar, someone he hadn't previously known (I believe?) to do promotion without setting up proper contracts or anything (he felt he was probably wasting his time). It's easy to look at a couple of screenshots and how many sales FC made and just say it was clearly just a rip-off trying to make a quick buck, but it's really not that simple. Some bias is therefore unavoidable but I'd like to try and keep it as close to what I see as being a true course of events as possible, I apologise in advance if I get anything wrong. Right off the bat I'd like to make it clear that I know the guy that made the game personally (FC dev, djarcas), and actually did some work on the game at one point (mainly landscape generation and performance improvements).
I'd like to provide some background on FortressCraft, and hopefully clear up a few things. I can't say for a moment it was easy to deal with that. I'm just a guy who got lucky with the timing of his game, and received the wrath of hundreds of thousands of angry Minecraft fanboys as a result. I'm not really sure I've done much to evoke such ire from you, however. I apologised about 30 minutes later, once I'd calmed down. My outburst regarding 'Fuck you and your community' was due to my site being DDOS'd out of existence after MC360's release this hot on the heels of Notch tweeting about how 'awesome' his community was. Is that important? Does originality count for anything? And if it does, does it count for anywhere near as much as presentation, quality and value for money? I suspect not. You can't have it both ways.Īs far as I can tell, Minecraft has literally zero original features, and FortressCraft has 1 (it's not a GOOD original feature, mind you, but it is original) I said that Minecraft is every bit as guilty of being a clone as FortressCraft either both of them are clones of their respective forebears, or both of them are original games. You haven't quite managed to pick up on the facts there. Click here for a list of other gaming subreddits. Posts and comments, whether in jest or with malice, that contain racist, sexist, homophobic content, threats, or other forms of toxicity will be removed, regardless of popularity or relevance.įor a more detailed explanation of these rules, click here. No Kickstarter, crowdfunding, et al project "reminder" posts. No referral, affiliate, livestream, and/or survey links. This is not the place to spam your channel or stream. No screenshots of websites or Twitter.įollow the rules of promotion. No general URL shorteners (bitly, tinyurl, etc). Submit only the original source of the content. No Giveaways / Trades / Contests / Items for sale / Donation Requests Mark your spoilers and NSFW submissions, comments and links. No bandwagon/raid/"pass it on" or direct reply posts. Note that we do not allow non-gaming meme templates as submissions.
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