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On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion. (cdn.masto.host)

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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

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 month ago (5 children)

For me the only downside is having to use a Microsoft account to play.

Otherwise I think the frequency of updates and continued support of the Java version have been pretty solid.

Some of the mechanics have changed but I often grow to like them when I stop viewing them in isolation. For example I thought it was annoying iron ore became drops, but when I found I could use fortune pick it all made sense!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

You forgot bedrock marketplace and chat reporting, altho I would say that over all it wasn't bad (the acquisition)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

and all other minecraft related products, like story mode, dungeons, ledgends, and earth

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I havent yet seen a minecraft server that allows chat reporting

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Bedrock marketplace is fully optional though. If you run Bedrock on a PC or Android phone, you can literally install worlds, skins, addons and texturepacks from the internet. They actually have their own installation mechanism (once you have made a texture pack for example, rename it from packname.zip to packname.mcpack , then clicking it will launch Minecraft and install it)

The only place where you cannot do this is on console... Which you weren't able to do on the 4j version either.

Also, if someone on PC has a bedrock world open with custom sideloaded packs and add-ons, etc, and someone from console joins them, they work as normal for the person on console, which is pretty neat.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Many changes are fantastic but they add more and more stuff to a game whose inventory was built around having a fifth the number of regular items in your inventory. Shulker boxes are the coolest thing in the game...until they become necessary to manage the bloat, in which case they suck, because now it's just an inventory square that takes forever to use.

They need to double the size of the standard player inventory, at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Not necessarily double it, but add a row, two, or add bags that increase the inventory, maybe with a special type (ore bag, flower bag, etc.). Mods had it handled more than 10 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

And the stolen accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The outcome was unfortunate (no more games ever I guess??) but Tim Schafer's announcement video was at least self-aware and funny.
"I always wanted to stay independent and free. But then I thought: what if I had a lot of money".

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm just confused because they already must have had a lot of money. How much you need?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They sure didn't have Microsoft volumes of money.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

They had a lot of money, but MS probably added a couple zeros to that lot of money.

I'd have taken the offer too, as I'd be set for life, and so would my kids and my kids' kids.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

... when you can have billions?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Minecraft is also the only base game I know with a retail price that keeps going up instead of down. Quite bizarre if you think about it.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Minecraft is one of the only base games on the market that is perpetually having content and features added to it. For free.

And I don’t know of any developer other than Mojang that prioritizes and targets bug fixing to such a high degree.

Edit: TIL, some people see the phrase “one of the only” and think it means “the only”.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Terraia and No Man's Sky certainly leap to mind.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stardew Valley... i'm sure there's more

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Space Engineers.
Factorio

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Deep rock galactic is fantastic, highly recommend

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

A lot of devs do it, you just don't play them so you think it doesn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How about Wubes Factorio?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just want to say it's good they didn't kill or make the franchise super mundane. They bought it, and kept improving on it.

I don't play Minecraft now, however I know enough people who still do and continue to love it (all these years later). That's just nice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't know if that's good honestly. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I think the simplicity of the earlier game was part of the appeal. Try playing it now. There's so much stuff that I don't know what is happening half the time. I'll play it a bit every few years with friends, but every time it feels like they've taken things too far. Is anyone actually asking for more content?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I still play minecraft nearly every day with my wife, siblings and soon my kids. I have no love for Microsoft but the team working on Minecraft IMO has done a great job expanding the game. The new terrain generation, mobs, mechanics are all fun additions and holy cow some of the new composers they have on the OST are brilliant.

Im sure things would be different if Mojang didnt sell out but who knows how. The game we actually have today is just as magical to me as it was in the early days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Im sure things would be different if Mojang didnt sell out but who knows how.

Notch would be less rich but still relevant, so I'm good with Microsoft owning it. Notch is enough of a shitter that Microsoft basically scrubbed him from Minecraft and didn't even invite him to the 10th anniversary celebration of the game, which should be telling.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah absolutely, fuck that guy 110%

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who questioned the legality of them deleting accounts if they didn't migrate?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

No you are not, and I'm pissed I forgot to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

"mojangstas" is crazy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I remember thinking it was madness to spend that much on a game that was already on its way out...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

And now Notch spends his time being a wasteful, hateful idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

For me, that was the signal to end playing Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

@MinecraftWikiEN @minecraft > "Everything is going to be OK"

and, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, we can now definitively say that everything was indeed not ok

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