The big news topic of the day is the purchase of Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, by Microsoft for $2.5B. Notch, the original creator, and several others are leaving the company with cash in hand. As awesome as the creation was, I think we all have a price. For Notch, it was $2B (per a December 2012 tweet). Looks like he got a big more out of Microsoft. I’m looking forward to what Microsoft brings to the Minecraft world (good or bad… could go either way).
As you might already know, Notch is the creator of Minecraft and the majority shareholder at Mojang. He’s decided that he doesn’t want the responsibility of owning a company of such global significance. Over the past few years he’s made attempts to work on smaller projects, but the pressure of owning Minecraft became too much for him to handle. The only option was to sell Mojang. He’ll continue to do cool stuff though. Don’t worry about that.