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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It was and still is good for the game. Minecraft would’ve died under Notch.

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Did they ever implement that modding API?

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And now Notch spends his time being a wasteful, hateful idiot.

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wait what???

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he’s a Nazi. the dude was not welcome at the 10 year anniversary event for Minecraft.

unfortunately due to tweets being deleted i can’t give you the list i used to have but here are some samples:

https://twitter.com/notch/status/936215345400033280?lang=en

https://twitter.com/notch/status/936298788636983296?lang=en

https://twitter.com/notch/status/1070773802806603777?lang=en

here he was quote tweeting a tweet with a mention of (((they))) which is literally Nazi shit https://twitter.com/notch/status/1070773433045143557

https://twitter.com/notch/status/1101794469060337664

https://twitter.com/notch/status/901192994971410433

i don’t know what’s with the combination of being swedish, videogames, wealth and a cunt personality but it seems to result in Nazism.

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The first link you provide reads “it’s okay to be white” that’s your best example of “literal Nazi shit”? The rest are all the same, not racist at all. Then, he goes into supporting conspiracies on “Pizzagate” and “Q” which idk if he even really supports or is just making fun of because it’s a random tweet your linking, but even if he does those conspiracies are anti-media and slandering elite rich pedo rings right?

Calling him a literal Nazi and showing this benign shit as your proof just makes me think you’re one of those radical people who call everyone a Nazi.

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Yeah, apparently he decided to go hard alt-right at some point. Apparently with nothing better to do now that he’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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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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That’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 he’s following stupid conspiracies you shouldn’t be trying to change history to suit your narrative, that’s something actual racists try to do.

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And yet they still refuse to add vertical slabs & stairs.

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

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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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Just pirate it.

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

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Or use the open-source Minetest instead?

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