To anyone not fully getting it or who might be thinking that whatever claims Notch is making are being exagerrated, this is the guy that did the following things:
- Say QAnon is right (the conspiracy idiot).
- Can't say that the Nazis were bad people (instead he went on a tangent about how modern day Nazis don't exist).
- On international womens day managed to tweet that "women should belong in the kitchen" and an entire tweet chain that is blatantly transphobic as well as believing it's celebrating body dysphoria and that "trans people are using the wrong pronouns" (as in -> you should misgender them).
To put it lightly: The man is an MGTOWer (Men Going Their Own Way (although personally I'd expand it to Men Going Their Own Way Yet Being Strangely Concerned As To What Women Think)), a transphobe and has issues condeming the
fucking Nazis.
You can find all of these on his twitter, I can cite tweet chains if staff here are okay with it.
The reason this is relevant is because his name is still
extremely prominently connected to Minecraft, to the point where a couple of the startup messages specifically thanked Notch. Now let's say you're Mojang (from what I found this was a move by the devs, not a move by Microsoft) and you're starting to get flak because your ex-boss (who only made the initial version of your game but takes all the credit even though you've been doing much more work on it in the past several years
and has already taken the lions share of the sale to Microsoft so there is already some resentment to him) is expressing views that at best are ignorant and at worst are supporting Nazism (note: I don't think Notch is a nazi, he's probably just incredibly stupid).
At that point, at least taking of the "Thank you for the game" message that is in the title screen is a start.
And it's nothing like Konami taking off Kojimas name of MGSV, in no small part because Notch is still credited, just no longer on the title screen.
tldr; fuck notch, good move.