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> He has credibility because he's proven to be effectual, innovative and principled

He has proven the exact opposite. He made a clone of an existing game, failed to deliver on almost everything he promised the people buying it, and then walked away from it leaving it to be never finished by someone else.

>This is not the case of a guy getting lucky in the viral lottery and then running his mouth.

Yes, that is exactly what it is.

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Can you name a game that can not be claimed to be a clone or at least somewhat similar to another one?

I also noted that you did not mentioned which game he supposedly cloned. I noted that because when people say these things (whether minecraft or flappy bird or 2048) and I checked the other game, it usually turned out they provide very different experience.

He's referring to Infiniminer. Notch doesn't deny the inspiration[1].

[1] http://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minecr...

I didn't mention it because it is common knowledge and openly acknowledged by notch. The game's name is infiniminer.

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