Well, looks like notch is going to do the ultimate RAGE-QUIT and sell out not only Minecraft but his entire company Mojang to Microsoft... For $2 Billion dollars.
"A surprising story has emerged today that suggests Microsoft is looking to buy Minecraft developer Mojang. The reported price tag is "more than US$2 billion." The original report is at the WSJ (possibly behind a paywall). Quoting: "For Microsoft, "Minecraft" could reinvigorate the company's 13-year-old Xbox videogame business by giving it a cult hit with a legion of young fans. Mojang has sold more than 50 million copies of "Minecraft" since it was initially released in 2009 and earned more than $100 million in profits last year from the game and merchandise. "Minecraft" is already available on the Xbox, as well as Sony Corp.'s PlayStation, PCs and smartphones."
And according to an anonymous poster in the Slashdot thread who implies that they are a Mojang employee:
Posting anonymous because I really shouldn't be saying this. Yes, it's for real: notch wants to sell out. It's been known inside the company for weeks. The news hit the developers in the Stockholm office very hard to the point that people were actually sobbing. No-one's happy besides the two people likely to end up with a large pile of cash after this goes down.
Yes we will lose our jobs, it was already said Microsoft is not interested in hiring amateur indie java programmers already.
And there won't be a large severance, Notch is taking the money and retiring.
So folks; Make sure you have your favorite versions of Minecraft and the servers backed up, not just the launchers.. Also grab all the mods for ALL the versions you can while it is still legal to do so.. And for those who want the PS3 and PS4 versions, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to grab those while you can too, cuz you know, Microsoft...
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"A surprising story has emerged today that suggests Microsoft is looking to buy Minecraft developer Mojang. The reported price tag is "more than US$2 billion." The original report is at the WSJ (possibly behind a paywall). Quoting: "For Microsoft, "Minecraft" could reinvigorate the company's 13-year-old Xbox videogame business by giving it a cult hit with a legion of young fans. Mojang has sold more than 50 million copies of "Minecraft" since it was initially released in 2009 and earned more than $100 million in profits last year from the game and merchandise. "Minecraft" is already available on the Xbox, as well as Sony Corp.'s PlayStation, PCs and smartphones."
And according to an anonymous poster in the Slashdot thread who implies that they are a Mojang employee:
So folks; Make sure you have your favorite versions of Minecraft and the servers backed up, not just the launchers.. Also grab all the mods for ALL the versions you can while it is still legal to do so.. And for those who want the PS3 and PS4 versions, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to grab those while you can too, cuz you know, Microsoft...
*** Cuchaz; Your Enigma tool and Deobfuscation Project are coming out just in the nick of time my friend!
-- Welcome to the Modding Underground everyone, we will all be a part of it soon...
- The Cubic Chunks Mod is back! Be a part of it's rebirth and Development.
-- Robinton's Mods: [ Mirror ] for some of his Mods incl Cubic Chunks Mod, due to DropBox broken links.
- Dungeon Generator for the Open Cubic Chunks Mod
- QuickSAVE-QuickLOAD for the Open Cubic Chunks Mod
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