Microsoft Buying Minecraft?

By Sacheverell Sep 9, 2014
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft may be nearing a deal to buy Mojang AB, makers of the Minecraft video game franchise. If the deal proves legitimate, it would value Mojang at more than $2 billion, and could be signed as early as this week. So far, neither Mojang AB or Microsoft have commented publicly on the situation.

In the past, Mojang - and Notch, in particular - have expressed no desire to be involved with other major corporations, or sell the Minecraft franchise. Mojang has often bucked the trend of the video game industry, refusing to give in on principle to a number of standard practices.

At this time, there is no clear confirmation or information about the alleged deal. Keep your eyes peeled - this is going to be a very interesting week!

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Posted Sep 12, 2014
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It's already cross-platform. If anything, they'll lessen that support, due to how stubborn MS is.

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Posted Sep 15, 2014
You know just as well as I do that they will make it like COD and have Minecaft Original, Minecraft 2, Minecraft 3, Minecraft 4. Until something like titanfall in COD's case comes along and kills it even more.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
I suspect many people will boycott any future products that Notch will create, if this deal goes though. And Notch is fully aware of the backlash that will occur too...he knows he's done in the game industry if this happens. We can only hope it doesn't.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
I remember when Notch said that he would make Minecraft open source once it was no longer making money... Guess that was another lie.

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Posted Sep 15, 2014
D: He became greedy just wanting more money and not caring about us...

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
NOPE. It won't happen. It will just be Minecraft XBOX 360. No PS3 or PC. D:

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
Microsoft would drain the character from the game, and it would also destroy the community.

Stay away, please.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
as a playstation 3 & 4 owner this is bad news.

if your an xbox 360 or xbone owner this is great news

as a PC owner this is........well i dunno. so many different variables to consider

whatever catagory you fit in there is one thing that is a FACT...............................things are gonna change

for the worse? opinion

for the best? opinion

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
Quote from odd718 »
as a playstation 3 & 4 owner this is bad news.

if your an xbox 360 or xbone owner this is great news

as a PC owner this is........well i dunno. so many different variables to consider

whatever catagory you fit in there is one thing that is a FACT...............................things are gonna change

for the worse? opinion

for the best? opinion

Worse, much worse. MC will become a cash cow for Microsoft and the game will be dead.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
according to the wall street journal, it looks like its pretty much a done deal.

a deal like that takes time, which means while we were getting tweets about updates progresses and cool facebook updates from 4J the minecraft world as we know it was secretly being carved out.

*sigh* well i guess its just business, i cant knock anyone involved.

i just recently got into minecraft on the ps3 & bought the ps4 version yesterday.

this is it guess, enjoy what you have as far as updates

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
I sincerely hope that they don't buy Mojang. I don't want Microsoft to ruin it.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
no way please don't notch please don't I want real developers making a real good game please don't do this I love minecraft I don't want MicrosoftAB to be a thing

This is a sad day...

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
+ they probaly will make premium users have to pay for multiplayer options or mod API's and even maybe make you update to windows 8 to even play the game

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
Hopefully Mojang will see that only 0.4% of the community actually wants this and consider the deal.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
No! Don't let them touch this game!

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
STUPID QUESTION - is this a good thing or a bad thing?

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
Quote from MineCrafter9500 »
STUPID QUESTION - is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Presumably bad thing since Microsoft will want to get as much cash out of Minecraft as they can, aka DLCs, no private servers, subscription-based accounts, and other crap like that.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
I am severely worried about what would happen to Minecraft if Microsoft buys Mojang. If MS decides to use the same policies for Minecraft as it has on most of its other products, mutiplayer would be reduced to Realms only (possibly requiring an XBox Live subscription with it), modding would be obliterated and disallowed by the EULA besides the plugin API (which would at its best be light modding only), perhaps also requiring an XBL subscription, and development would slow to such a crawl that an update wouldn't come around without permissions being "sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters". The PS4, PS3, Linux/Mac, Android, and iOS versions would be discontinued. Resource packs would be stopped and disallowed by the EULA. Easter eggs referencing other companies' games would be removed ("Achievement Get! The lie" will become "New Achievement: You made a cake."). The list goes on.

One of the things that has made Minecraft so great within the community is Mojang's continued player-focused approach to policy and development.

Microsoft, you better take good care of this game, because it's worth a whole lot more than $2 billion.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
No. Just no.

How can anyone see the benefits in this? Microsoft is going to turn Minecraft in a money making machine at the expense of losing maybe half of it's community. That's why I like it when games are independent. They aren't weighed down by corporate ideas that isn't the community's voice. How can some of you morons, obviously Microsoft fanboys or fanboys of corporations in the gaming industry determining how a game should be played. See anything good with this?

Just how certain do you think is Microsoft going to assure that there will be server improvements, better layout tools and etc. Do you think they'll listen to the Minecraft community at all? No, I don't think so. So don't be holding your breaths because Microsoft is going to find a way to break the game, you just watch. I don't even want to think of the idea they could get should they proceed it that they mark those who pay a one-time fee for minecraft. Then turn it into a subscription to play. They'll find something to **** off this community and break the game. And lastly, when Microsoft is done milking what it could off of this game, it's gonna leave it in the dust!

Do you want that?
I don't. At all.

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Posted Sep 10, 2014
Relax bro. I've played the game since alpha 1.2.5 and seeing that the main source of information in each article seems to be coming from WSJ and no hints from any Mojang AB employees, it's highly unlikely that it's even true. Even if it's true . . . why would Mojang sell their game to a sinking ship filled to the brim with fools?

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