The rumor turned in recent days, initially launched by the Wall Street Journal. Microsoft and Mojang, the company whose Minecraft depends, just confirm it. Yes, the popular video game based on blocks and cubes is well and truly over by the American computer firm, for $ 2.5 billion.
Microsoft realizes actually here the acquisition of all of Mojang, the press release, released on September 15, tries to be reassuring:
“Change is scary, and it’s a big change for all of us. It’ll be good though. Everything will be okay. & Lt; 3 “
Mojang says Notch, the creator of the nickname Minecraft , also the majority shareholder of the company, “does not want to take responsibility for own a company with such a importance. [...] The only solution was to sell Mojang. “
Launched in 2009, Minecraft has become a huge success over the years, so Microsoft now the point defined as “one of the most popular video games in history, with over 100 million downloads, just on PC since its launch [...].”
This game virtual construction, where each block of the environment, wrote Liberation in 2011, ‘a raw material that can be extracted “ to make this universe at the whim of each player, however, is not initially a blockbuster sector. On the contrary, “ Minecraft is an independent game continued Liberation , born neurons of one man, Markus Persson, Swedish designer based in Stockholm, more known as the “Notch”. “
In this regard, therefore, it was purchased by one of the giants of the Net is reminiscent of the recent acquisition of Oculus Rift by Facebook. Again, it was the takeover by a giant web of a project modest start, especially developed using a participatory campaign financing. Again, it was video game -the helmet designed by Oculus Rift being heralded as the next phenomenon in the industry. Again, the sums involved were impressive. $ 2 billion in the case of Oculus Rift
At the time, the acquisition had angered many fans and financial backers of Oculus Rift project. Among them, a Notch. The creator of Minecraft said at the time on Twitter have abandoned the idea of an adapted version of the Oculus Rift … because “Facebook [he] cares [ed] tokens. “
about that this developer does not deny either. In a farewell letter to the Minecraft community to read the side of The Verge, where Notch says her difficulty in managing the success of his work, he also slips “be aware that this goes against what [he] was able to say in public “ concluded:.
“It’s not for the money. This is for my mental health. “
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