Microsoft has bought Mojang, the creator of Minecraft for $2.5Billion

[T-hug]

Microsoft has bought Mojang, the Swedish firm behind the popular video game Minecraft, for $2.5bn (£1.5bn).

What does this mean for the Minecraft series?
Will we still get the Vita version!? (j/k - we are )

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[The Catboy]

Well good bye Minecraft, it was nice playing it another product before M$ ruined it.

 

[loco365]

Well good bye Minecraft, it was nice playing it another product before M$ ruined it.

At least you can still down pre-MS snapshots, so there's that going for you.

Now just wait for the Windows block. You can right-click on it, and it will start a copy of Windows Vista embedded that will crash in 5 minutes due to a lack of resources.

 

[Wellington2k]

Have fun making Minecraft for the Kinect, Mojang.

 

[The Catboy]

At least you can still down pre-MS snapshots, so there's that going for you.

Now just wait for the Windows block. You can right-click on it, and it will start a copy of Windows Vista embedded that will crash in 5 minutes due to a lack of resources.

Something tells me as a Linux User, that's all I am going to be limited to. It's going to be like skype all over again. Sure we got an update, but it only took a few years.

 

[Gahars]

Mo' money, Mojang.

Well good bye Minecraft, it was nice playing it another product before M$ ruined it.

In all fairness, there's not really anything to ruin. Plus, like them or not, at least Microsoft has an actual work ethic.

 

[The Catboy]

Mo' money, Mojang.

In all fairness, there's not really anything to ruin. Plus, like them or not, at least Microsoft has an actual work ethic.

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Damn, T-Hug, beat me to it.

Considering how they treat Skype and pretty much every product they buy out, I have very little hope of them treating Minecraft any better.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Hm, Minecraft Kinect edition? I wouldn't mind trying it out.

 

[Joe88]

now we are gonna have to install the trash called games for windows live client to play minecraft
I could care less about the outdated console and mobile versions but leave the pc version alone...

 

[Arras]

now we are gonna have to install the trash called games for windows live client to play minecraft
I could care less about the outdated console and mobile versions but leave the pc version alone...

Didn't they sort of stop doing GFWL?

 

[WiiCube_2013]

now we are gonna have to install the trash called games for windows live client to play minecraft
I could care less about the outdated console and mobile versions but leave the pc version alone...

Stop worrying so much about your pixelated craft game.

Microsoft has confirmed that the game will stay as a multiplatform so no real changes, unless for PC/XO.

 

[DinohScene]

Doesn't have to be bad news.
Could also be that MS is just funding Mojang with better resources.

Also a better source for the news would be this
It's straight from Mojang self, which I believe more then BBC news.

 

[The Catboy]

Doesn't have to be bad news.
Could also be that MS is just funding Mojang with better resources.

Also a better source for the news would be this
It's straight from Mojang self, which I believe more then BBC news.

I'd be optimistic, if I didn't know M$'s track record.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Who wouldn't sell it? With 2.5 billion you can live the life of thousand rich people.

 

[Qtis]

Not bad for a company that basically has made only one game out of alpha/beta stage. Notch will be netting a good wad of money out of the deal as will probably the rest of the founders. Interestingly they're not going to stay with the company post-MS acquisition:

What about the Mojang staff? What’s happening to you guys?
Though it’s too early to confirm which of us will continue working on Minecraft or other projects, we predict that the vast majority (if not all) Mojangstas will continue to work at Mojang for the time being.
The founders: Notch, Carl, and Jakob are leaving. We don’t know what they’re planning. It won’t be Minecraft-related but it will probably be cool.

 

[DinohScene]

I'd be optimistic, if I didn't know M$'s track record.

MS fucks up everything when they get the development over it.
Jeb n the rest is still developing Minecraft.

People just see this as the next "facebook aquires Oculus Rift" case.

Who wouldn't sell it? With 2.5 billion you can live the life of thousand rich people.

It's about Notch's sanity.
Not the money.

 

[GameWinner]

Well..there it is.

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

And m$ gobbles up yet another company and franchise om nom nom lol XD

 

[The Catboy]

MS fucks up everything when they get the development over it.
Jeb n the rest is still developing Minecraft.

People just see this as the next "facebook aquires Oculus Rift" case.

You know they said the same thing about Rare, now look them

M$ only puts on the illusion that they won't be interfering, but we know that's not true. As soon as people start to settle down, M$ will come and start fucking it up like they always do.
They've never just sat and let the people they buy out work on their own, they always get in involved and that's where things start going down hill.

 

[DinohScene]

You know they said the same thing about Rare, now look them
*snip*
M$ only puts on the illusion that they won't be interfering, but we know that's not true. As soon as people start to settle down, M$ will come and start fucking it up like they always do.
They've never just sat and let the people they buy out work on their own, they always get in involved and that's where things start going down hill.

Knowing Mojang, who worked close with MS for 2 years.
Jeb and Dinnerbone would be extremely lazy and stupid if they'd allow MS to take it over.