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Oops! Sorry, Notch!

So it turns out Notch saw it, but didn’t read my previous blog post. 

And I don’t blame him.  The title I gave the blog post — “What’s Wrong with Minecraft (and How to Fix it)” — comes off (unintentionally) as, “Hey, Notch, let me fix that boring game of yours.”

Now that I think about it, I was pretty ignorant to think he wouldn’t take offense to a title like that, even though that’s not at all how I meant it.

I mean, I’d be annoyed, too, if someone wrote a really long blog post titled, “How to Fix X’s YouTube Channel.”  My immediate reaction would be, what the hell?  My channel’s fine the way it is, this guy needs to get off his high horse.

So I don’t blame Notch for choosing to ignore my blog post.  First of all, he has to filter negativity out so he can continue to make Minecraft.  (And trust me, after doing YouTube for over a year, I should know a thing or two about filtering out negativity.)  Secondly, he shouldn’t have to put up with someone telling him “how to fix” his game.  Especially not on the weekend.

And he most certainly shouldn’t have to put up with it to the point of receiving text messages at home about it.  Which is what happened.

So I do feel bad about all that.  My post wasn’t meant to annoy or demoralize him, but that’s what it ended up doing.

It always sucks when someone tries to do something good, but it ends up having a a negative impact.

I’m going to take the path of humility here and realize that, although my intentions were good, I went about that post in the wrong way.

And though I realize the chances are slim Notch will read this, I’ll say it anyway:

Notch, sorry about that, man.  :)  I promise you my intentions were pure, but I made a mistake.  I’m still new to having an audience following me, and I didn’t realize exactly how much of an impact I could have.  I’m still learning.

For the rest of my audience: please remember that my previous post was, and still is, for you guys.  I don’t feel any great loss for Notch not having read my post, because as I stated several times, that post was just to keep my audience informed about my feelings toward Minecraft.

Having Notch read it would have only been a bonus.

None of the ideas in my blog post did I ever expect to get implemented.  I did say several times that I realized that my ideas were probably pretty far from what Notch had planned, and I posed all of them in such a way that they were examples of what could go into Minecraft.

I still think they’re all pretty awesome, and I’m glad so many of you do, too.  Some have suggested that I turn these ideas into a mod for the game.  Well, if I had the knowledge, time, and ability to do so, I would.  It seems like thousands of you would have a great time with it!

So again, thank you all for your support about my last post, but let’s not bug Notch about it anymore.  The man says he has a plan for the adventuring aspect of Minecraft, and I, for one, believe him.

Stay tuned, everyone, for more X’s Adventures in Minecraft: Call of the Prime Wolves.  :)