Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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Minecraft would’ve died under Notch.

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75 points

Avoided turning into Meincraft.

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Minecraft, not Mein Kampf!

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Why explore new chunks? Why raze entire villages? Lebensraum

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55 points

Man Notch really turned out to me a mess didn’t he…? 😥

I remember back in like 2012 he was one of my personal “heros”.

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15 points

what did he do I don’t know

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48 points

He got sucked into Right-wing extremism. Posting racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic things on Twitter. Also got into Qanon I think.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy

TL;DR: Racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia over Twitter

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Same with wurm online

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4 points

What what.

I thought Wurm online is essentially still dead 🤔

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1 point

Still going strong 🤷

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No, not dead. Works for me.

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I agree But for a while he didn’t even do anything It was just jeb

And I think it could of worked out But even with all of the dumb stuff Microsoft brought I can’t say it was a bad thing

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