mojang and psychonauts 2?
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http://kotaku.com/5882961/minecrafts-creator-wants-to-put-up-money-to-make-psychonauts-2-a-reality
http://kotaku.com/5882961/minecrafts-creator-wants-to-put-up-money-to-make-psychonauts-2-a-reality
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Notch tweeted back to Rock Paper Shotgun that this is a serious offer.
Still, that's awesome.
It's important to remember that while mojang has the millions, they do not have the big overhead of other companies, they can survive monthly on a tiny part of what they make from minecraft sales,
with still something like 10k sales per day and soon reaching 5 million sales.
I read in a Recent interview that they have the same staff numbers from Brutal Legend, just split into 4 teams (they never had any layoffs). Tim said the only problem is they have a lot of leads now.
I have restore faith in humanity again
wh....what?
I'm not incredibly fond of notch or a fanboy, (hell I havent played minecraft in like a year) but your statement seems really weird.
A person's money is their own, if they choose to do a good deed with it that makes them a really good person, if they choose to do a bad deed with it, that makes them a bad person. If they choose to do anything else with it, that makes them a normal human being.
We all envy millionaires and what they can do with their money but this isn't sickening at all. :S
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Anyway, this is cool to hear at least.
Never the less, it's great to see something like this spark.
Any time theres talks of millions I always have friends from other countries speaking in vain about the persons wealth, THEY annoy me.
I think this is great. The major companies pushing out this garbage they call games is really getting old. We need fresh ideas that need money, not ideas that are created to make money.
That's what makes him so interesting compared to regular pr enforced companies, he speaks his weird mind even when his lawyers suggest he should not, and unlike someone like peter molyneux he hasn't managed to cause harm yet.
I think the best part about notch vs a publisher is that a publisher want to focus on making psychonauts as monetarily viable as possible, while Notch/mojang as a publisher are nearly almost purely interested in seeing a psychonauts 2 as developed entirely and singlehandedly by double fine, this is rare in the publishing world for various reasons.
P.S. We should totally have a Polycount Challenge where we repaint the textures in Psychonauts. Extractors exist for extracting the maps. I would love to play a nicer looking version.