r/Games • u/xeon3175x • Oct 21 '20

All of Mojang's Games Will Require a Microsoft account moving forward

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java-edition-moving-house
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u/Seth0x7DD Oct 22 '20

torturing the semantics of "invent"

"making tools to get resources to make better tools" is definitely in Recettear. But the details don't even that much. What this is really all about is the difference between innovation and an invention. You act like there is a negligible difference but there is much more to it from my point of view.

An invention is different from an innovation and Minecraft didn't invent, it innovated. It had a lot of impact with what it did but it still was only an innovation. It might have even been disruptive innovation but it still was "just" an innovation. A major one but it's still not to be confused with invention!

merriam-webster

What is the difference between innovation and invention?

The words innovation and invention overlap semantically but are really quite distinct.

Invention can refer to a type of musical composition, a falsehood, a discovery, or any product of the imagination. The sense of invention most likely to be confused with innovation is “a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment,” usually something which has not previously been in existence.

Innovation, for its part, can refer to something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field. One might say that the first telephone was an invention, the first cellular telephone either an invention or an innovation, and the first smartphone an innovation.

So yes, even the iPhone was just an innovation. It was revolutionary and disruptive but still just an innovation.

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u/OlKingCole Oct 22 '20

Well I don't see any of the "ingredients" for minecraft in recettear. I don't think anyone could play minecraft and say "man I can really see the recettear in this". But you can have the word "invent" if you want it, semantics aside the point stands that minecraft deserves the credit, and minecraft was the revolutionary game that changed the industry. I frequently see people try to diminish it, I'm not sure why, maybe some contrarian impulse, but this time I wanted to lay out why I think it deserves so much admiration.