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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: ā€œEverything is going to be OK. <3ā€
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.

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

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dual_sport_dork šŸ§šŸ—”ļø@lemmy.world
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Yeah, apparently he decided to go hard alt-right at some point. Apparently with nothing better to do now that heā€™s retired from Minecraft development, he amuses himself by posting racist, anti-LGBT, and QAnon horseshit.

So much so that Microsoft actually removed him from the credits.

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Flax@feddit.uk
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I am pretty sure he is still in the credits. They just removed random references to him in the splash texts, including an outdated one about his ex wife

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sketelon@eviltoast.org
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Thatā€™s wild that they try to change history like that, he was literally the sole developer of the original game, creating it entirely for a programming competition right? Even if heā€™s following stupid conspiracies you shouldnā€™t be trying to change history to suit your narrative, thatā€™s something actual racists try to do.

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ferret@sh.itjust.works
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I mean, itā€™s not like notchā€™s contributions to the game are hidden or something. Itā€™s extremely common knowledge. And no one reads the Minecraft credits anyway, the entire scroll is more than an hour long!

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