On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_Studios#History
In a blog post announcing the purchase, Owen Jones wrote: “Everything is going to be OK. <3”
http://web.archive.org/web/20140915131835/https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/
Ten years later, Mojang now has been part of Microsoft almost twice as long as it has been independent.
It’s interesting to look back at the original announcement video from Xbox as well:
https://youtu.be/lXNWchwDiG8
wait what???
Yeah, apparently he decided to go hard alt-right at some point. Apparently with nothing better to do now that he’s retired from Minecraft development, he amuses himself by posting racist, anti-LGBT, and QAnon horseshit.
So much so that Microsoft actually removed him from the credits.
I am pretty sure he is still in the credits. They just removed random references to him in the splash texts, including an outdated one about his ex wife
he’s a Nazi. the dude was not welcome at the 10 year anniversary event for Minecraft.
unfortunately due to tweets being deleted i can’t give you the list i used to have but here are some samples:
https://twitter.com/notch/status/936215345400033280?lang=en
https://twitter.com/notch/status/936298788636983296?lang=en
https://twitter.com/notch/status/1070773802806603777?lang=en
here he was quote tweeting a tweet with a mention of (((they))) which is literally Nazi shit https://twitter.com/notch/status/1070773433045143557
https://twitter.com/notch/status/1101794469060337664
https://twitter.com/notch/status/901192994971410433
i don’t know what’s with the combination of being swedish, videogames, wealth and a cunt personality but it seems to result in Nazism.