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
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.