So for those who have been living under a rock, Microsoft has bought Mojang.

mojang statement
https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-...-by-microsoft/

microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/...09-15news.aspx
RIP minecraft, its been a blast.  

Minecraft still lives, except there will be Microsoft phones and pcs everyweherseersesefse  

Posted by CluTch

Minecraft still lives, except there will be Microsoft phones and pcs everyweherseersesefse

How will buying minecraft make people buy new phones and pcs? It will still be on the app store.  

who cares about minecraft or mojang these days anyway  

Minecraft has been insanely, insanely profitable with its current marketing model. It is going to hit a peak where there's not much more to be made(because there's no one left to buy it) but they would be a fool to mess with it before it gets to that point.  

How would Microsoft ruin minecraft? You dumb?  

Posted by DarkKnight

who cares about minecraft or mojang these days anyway

Apparently Microsoft if they're buying it for 2 billion dollars.

Ol' Notch is going to have a nice retirement.  

Posted by 5hift

Apparently Microsoft if they're buying it for 2 billion dollars.

Ol' Notch is going to have a nice retirement.

Ikr.

Posted by Dusty

Minecraft has been insanely, insanely profitable with its current marketing model. It is going to hit a peak where there's not much more to be made(because there's no one left to buy it) but they would be a fool to mess with it before it gets to that point.

Do you not know that kids are born everyday and will one day be a mojang fan?

Posted by DarkKnight

who cares about minecraft or mojang these days anyway

Its boring as hell,but people like it. But since microsofts running it I cant wait to see if there a update.

Microsoft’s investments in cloud and mobile technologies will enable “Minecraft” players to benefit from richer and faster worlds, more powerful development tools, and more opportunities to connect across the “Minecraft” community.

I hope that last part means multiplayer  

Posted by Dawn

worlds, more

Holy god. I'm amazed.  

Apparently if Notch ever makes a game that reaches a lot of popularity, he will cease developing it.
What a great idea!  

Posted by optimuswhat

Apparently if Notch ever makes a game that reaches a lot of popularity, he will cease developing it.
What a great idea!

He wants out... and he has enough money to never have to worry about making money again.  

Posted by optimuswhat

Apparently if Notch ever makes a game that reaches a lot of popularity, he will cease developing it.
What a great idea!

Some people dont want fame some people hate the thought of having it and rather be in the back of the room where no one sees him.

Some people cant handle the feeling of people trash talking them 24/7. I respect notch for doing this. He wanted out and he got out with a bang of 2billion dollars.

He is already set for life. Microsoft can't hurt the game. The game will end up just dying out soon who knows. only time will tell.  

I'm pretty sure a lot of the same people are still working on Minecraft, they just work for Microsoft rather than Mojang. So I don't think we will see any huge differences in development.  

Pretty sure he has to give like 50% of it to the Swedish government, but he still has enough to live comfortably for life.  

Posted by optimuswhat

Apparently if Notch ever makes a game that reaches a lot of popularity, he will cease developing it.
What a great idea!

Here we go with the "fame and fortune gets annoying after a while" deal. Remember Flappy Bird? Yes you do. He doesn't need to make any more money, and I'll bet the attention gets annoying as hell after a while. I would most definitely want Microsoft to buy me out for tons of money and then be left alone from all the attention it gets you.