Notch over Minecraft en Steam

Markus "Notch" Persson, ontwerper van Minecraft, heeft laten weten dat hij geen voorstander is van Steam in combinatie met zijn Minecraft. De voornaamste reden hiervoor is dat het digitale distributieplatform zijn in-game transacties limiteert. 

"Being on Steam limits a lot of what we're allowed to do with the game, and how we're allowed to talk to our users," schreef Persson op zijn blog. "We (probably?) wouldn't be able to, say, sell capes or have a map marketplace on minecraft.net that works with Steam customers in a way that keeps Valve happy."

"It would effectively split the Minecraft community into two parts, where only some of the players can access all of the weird content we want to add to the game."

"We are talking to Valve about this, but I definitely understand their reasons for wanting to control their platform. There's a certain inherent incompatibility between what we want to do and what they want to do."

"So there's no big argument, we just don't want to limit what we can do with Minecraft."

Persson zei verder dat hij Steam "awesome" vindt en dat het in zijn ogen het beste digitale distributieplatform is dat hij ooit heeft gezien. "I've spent incredible amounts of money on it," voegde hij toe. Niet dat dat wat uitmaakt voor deze selfmade miljonair.