The scary thing is, this reminds me of my life…
Learnt Python, learnt Java, then realisation… The only differences being that I learned HTML before Python, I learnt LolCode after the realisation (I suggest other people to learn it, it is amazing), and that Safari on my iPad crashed while typing this message (congrats Apple, 13th time this week)…
But I just see it as this simple statement: Who cares if you get famous?
- yes, you will get money - but a job can give you money as well… So can advertising
- yes, you can get popular - but do you want to be chased around by everyone and then get hated after something with your game goes wrong?
I read Notch’s blog and he didn’t want to be in the big game biz… He just accidently fell in… He tried to run away (left mojang)… But after stuff like Mojang’s licence change, everybody blamed him… No one saw him as Notch anymore… Everybody saw him as ‘Minecraft’… If anything happened with Minecraft, it was his fault… So he sold Minecraft to microsoft and stated:
“If I ever create another game which gets somewhat popular, I will abandon it completely”
I just see programming as a fun hobby and a future position… And when you read over your original post, you said how much you loved programming…
Me, I’m not in it for the money, I’m in it for the programming…
Remember, this is just my opinion and you can do whatever you want in your life… Becuase, well, it’s your life…
EDIT: my iPad Safari crashed again when I tried to change one word which I misspelled… Congrats, congrats…