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On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.(cdn.masto.host)

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On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_Studios#History

In a blog post announcing the purchase, Owen Jones wrote: “Everything is going to be OK. <3”
http://web.archive.org/web/20140915131835/https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/

Ten years later, Mojang now has been part of Microsoft almost twice as long as it has been independent.

It’s interesting to look back at the original announcement video from Xbox as well:
https://youtu.be/lXNWchwDiG8

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HollowNaught@lemmy.world
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Am I the only one who questioned the legality of them deleting accounts if they didn’t migrate?

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No you are not, and I’m pissed I forgot to do that.

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thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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Dude i remembered six months in advance and still lost my account because the process was a disaster. I haven’t played it since.

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django@discuss.tchncs.de
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Just pirate it.

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Or use the open-source Minetest instead?

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You won’t be able to play multiplayer if you do

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JackbyDev@programming.dev
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They had some push to get people to migrate by giving them free Bedrock if they did but I missed that. Then they either started the promotion again or just combined the purchase but I’d already bought bedrock because I was curious about the ray tracing. For real, there was like a six month window there. I’m probably the only sucker to have done this.

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