Notch: EA methodically destroying gaming

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Nsanity on 03 May 2012

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Mojang boss vents anger over recently released 'indie bundle' from the publisher

EA is methodically destroying gaming whilst Indie developers are saving it, Markus ‘notch’ Persson has claimed.

Speaking out on Twitter, the Mojang boss spoke angrily about EA’s recently released ‘indie bundle’ on Steam, which includes games such as DeathSpank, Shank and Warp.

“EA releases an ‘indie bundle’? That's not how that works, EA,” he said.

“Stop attempting to ruin everything, you bunch of cynical bastards.”

Whilst Persson did not doubt the quality of the games, he said his anger was targeted at EA for relating itself to the indie scene, and that he didn’t even feel the title was appropriate for his own studio anymore.

“I don't even call Mojang indie any more,” he continued.

“Vlambeer is indie. Polytron is indie. Stephen, Ed, Terry, Derek, Tommy and Chris are indie.

“Indies are saving gaming. EA is methodically destroying it.”

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melbye on 03 May 2012

Pretentious asshole.

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happydolphin on 03 May 2012

Finally someone says something. It takes the underground to make sense out of sleezy business moves.

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Crystalchild on 03 May 2012

ClassicGamingWizzz said:
notch thinks he is jesus christ of the gaming industry, these days you just need to release a game to be the king of the hill.
like melbye said he is a Pretentious asshole.

sadly, QFT.

still, notch got a point - EA is doing it wrong.

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Crystalchild on 03 May 2012

ClassicGamingWizzz said:

Crystalchild said:

ClassicGamingWizzz said:
notch thinks he is jesus christ of the gaming industry, these days you just need to release a game to be the king of the hill.
like melbye said he is a Pretentious asshole.

sadly, QFT.

still, notch got a point - EA is doing it wrong.

pisses me off these so called indie devs that always trash talk and pretend to be Gods >.>

things like that weird indi-guy pissing all over japanese dev's in his presentation or that one guy who say's that Kojima sucks and needs to stop making games are a bunch of stupid idiots who think they have any influence, but i dont think that the majority of Indidev's are like that, if anything they're proud about what they're doing, and theres nothing wrong with that. (unless of course they act like morons, pretending to be one of those big guys who actually shaped the industry.)

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VGKing on 03 May 2012

EA is always trying to cash in on everything.
The Worst Company in America thing was well deserved.

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Pineapple on 03 May 2012

I like Electronic Arts.

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badgenome on 03 May 2012

How dare EA promote its own games? They should send them all to die like they did with Shadows of the Damned. Because that's what's really good for small developers.