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0 pointsoperator-name3y ago0 comments

But once again, why the focus on compensation? It's a pretty small section of the article that's after the frustration with Carl.

Once again speculating, but the author didn't want to be treated like "just a contractor", and nor did that seem like how the relationship started out. Even as a contractor, I personally feel Notch could have reached out with happy words at a minimum - instead the author got silence.

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simmerup3y ago

Notch probably dealt with tons of temporary contractors during the development of the game. He doesn’t have to keep life time commitments to all of them surely

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