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Markus Persson
Markus Persson
Swedish Businessman
Born: Jun 1, 1979
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Just make games for yourself and try to have a critical eye to what you do. If you genuinely like the game, there will be other people who like it as well. Markus Persson
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I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus. Markus Persson
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I first wore a hat after seeing a friend wear a hat. It seemed like a neat way to keep snow off my head without having to wear a beanie, so I tried it on for a while. Turns out I started wearing the hat at around the time people took pictures of me and put them online and in newspapers, so it kind of became part of my public image. Markus Persson
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Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds. Markus Persson
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PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs. Markus Persson
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We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit. Markus Persson
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I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision. Markus Persson
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Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak. Markus Persson
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I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming. Markus Persson
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The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily. Markus Persson
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If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually. Markus Persson
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I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter. Markus Persson
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I feel there is this looming cloud over my life. Markus Persson
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I didn't really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don't really belong. Markus Persson
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Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it's easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it. Markus Persson
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I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community. Markus Persson
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I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre. Markus Persson
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The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird. Markus Persson
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Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.' Markus Persson
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I already have it, but a good keyboard is invaluable when you spend a lot of time typing. My favorite one is the ancient IBM Model M I have at home. Markus Persson
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Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking. Markus Persson
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I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies. Markus Persson
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When you have the kind of success 'Minecraft' has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things. Markus Persson
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By the nature of how a personal computer works and how open they are, modding has always been a big part of PC games, and it can really enhance the experience and extend the lifespan of a game. Markus Persson
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The more consoles the better, because if there's more competition, they might get more open. Markus Persson
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With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well. Markus Persson
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