Minesoft...Microcraft...you decide

It would be a good product to enter the education games sector, which is growing rapidly. They are mainly buying the name and the userbase behind it. There is a good positive vibe behind the community, so that is worth a lot, but easy to destroy. And looking at previous experiences of Microsoft, i don't have too much faith.

Not sure what their goal is, but it would make sense for them to try to pivot their reputation by buying Moyang and make it even bigger. I am not surprised at this deal looking at previous collaborations they made. The sense of Moyang being a small Indie company is long gone for me, so this cooperative move makes all sense.

i just can't see why notch would sell it. I would keep it. like... enought money for my lifetime. What's the difference from 500 million to 2bi? when you have just enough money... dunno, makes any difference?

OR

he can take that 2 bi and create a floating island made with (a lot) of plastic bottles in the ocean, and declare it his own country. I would love to do that.

Maybe they are sick and tired of maintaining the same game for X years and dealing with a userbase that averages 10 year olds. Grab the billions and ruuuuun~~

Seems like the best deal possible for Notch. Shit imagine walking away with 2billion from the only "proper" game you ever made and never have to worry about money anymore in your life? Because let's be frank, it's pretty much impossible for Mojang to come up with something else that comes even close to Minecraft's popularity.

Minecraft will be to Microsoft what Pokemon is to Nintendo... I hope MS is as clever as Nintendo when it comes to taking care of the franchise though

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What's the difference from 500 million to 2bi?

1.5 billion

if had only 500m i would buy a nice house and travel the world. If i had 2b i would buy an F1 team or a football club for a hobby.

One trick pony though.

My thoughts on the rumored purchase: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/…p-edit-rr-posts

If it means he helps fund more games like Age of Wonders 3, then I'm very happy for him

What happened with Scrolls?

I personally think Notch should take the $2bil. He could easily just set up another team with his closest friends/trusted devs and make whatever games he wants for the rest of his life without worrying about money ever.

Mojang and Minecraft has(I'd imagine) got way bigger than he'd hoped, maybe he's just sick of running the company and wants to get back to just making whatever games he wants? Who knows.

At one point the price is just too damn high. People sell their babies for less.
Selling minecraft will change nothing for notch or mojang. He will still be the guy who created minecraft.

I personaly think hat Notch is overated and that minecraft success is more due to comunity mods and supports rather to the awesome gamedesigner people says Notch is.

It would take less $ to start from scratch and make a real minecraft like than to buy this one and expect new sales...

Sure thing. But that is no really the point. They buy Minecraft, not notch.

So they do not only buy a game, they buy an IP.

There are enough clones of Minecraft

All of this doesn't make much sense to me but the fact that notch still hasn't commented on the story only makes it more believable.

I think it makes a lot of sense. 2 billion dollars is monopoly money, it's like, well, it's like 2 billion dollars. That amount of money would be hard for anyone to resist, to do just about anything. So I'm not surprised to see Notch sell his big claim to fame, if that's what ends up happening. It is just slightly sad though, something about it. Something seems kind of wrong there, but if everybody gets what they want, and Notch is tired of maintaining the game, maybe everybody wins.

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I think it makes a lot of sense. 2 billion dollars is monopoly money, it's like, well, it's like 2 billion dollars. That amount of money would be hard for anyone to resist, to do just about anything. So I'm not surprised to see Notch sell his big claim to fame, if that's what ends up happening. It is just slightly sad though, something about it. Something seems kind of wrong there, but if everybody gets what they want, and Notch is tired of maintaining the game, maybe everybody wins.

The thing is: he doesn't even maintain the game anymore. Jeb has been in charge of it for years. notch has been tinkering on new projects (that frankly haven't lead to anything substantial yet). The guy has made many millions - and yes, I know, more millions are always better - but even if his attitude has come across as snobbish at times, he always seemed to be very genuine and outspoken. He has often talked about how he wants Mojang to be best studio to work for in the world and made his disdain of big corporations public at numerous occasions (he cancelled the Rift version of Minecraft after Facebook picked up Oculus etc.). I was thinking, maybe the other shareholders want to cash out, but rumor has it that notch instigated the deal. Him being burnt out or a general discontent with making games under the microscope is my best guess at the moment.

If it turns out to be true, then the only surprising thing about this is how he came off as being super holy and indie like in regards to Facebook buying Oculus VR and being disgusted with them selling out, only to basically do the exact same thing himself a month or so later. I have no problem with him being against Facebook buying Oculus, but it's pretty hypocritical for him to go through with this kind of thing then, especially if this deal was underway at the time of that comment.

Anyway, for 2 billion dollaz you'd be insane not to sell it now, seriously doubt he'll ever get a better deal than that.