Microsoft has bought Mojang, the creator of Minecraft for $2.5Billion

[endoverend]

I hope they make minecraft a real game that has a real singleplayer and multiplayer experience that isn't entirely overrated.

 

[vayanui8]

I can't really see how this is good for microsoft. Everybody and their grandma has the game already, so I don't know how they plan to earn back the money. That being said, maybe it will work out maybe it won't. Either way there will still be available, Mojang hadn't been doing a whole lot with the game lately anyway.

 

[purpasmart96]

Well nothing of value was lost since minecraft has been overun by little kids, we got minetest.

 

[Obveron]

It's the Minecraft gaming community they're after. They'll have some sort of social networked sequel/patch with subscription model. One thing is for sure they want make that 2.5bil back (and then some) so get out your wallets.

 

[grossaffe]

So this is the Mojang owned by the Notch who whined about Oculus selling to Facebook. Then a month ago, his stance on the subject changed. I wonder what could possibly have made him change his mind on a company selling to a bigger company for around $2 billion. Hypocrite.

 

[TyBlood13]

Mojang hadn't been doing a whole lot with the game lately anyway

I know they're kinda slow but a big update just came out like two weeks ago

 

[raulpica]

link please, I want to see too.

Errr, no, I'd have to ban myself. Let's say that it involves a drill of some sort. If your google-fu is strong, you might find it, but I won't link to it.

 

[Sporky McForkinspoon]

Wow. Remember this, guys: even if MS doesn't make many updates to MC, MC was already a great game. If you ask me, there really is no "down side" to this; either we keep the same awesome game we've always had, or MS adds new stuff to it to make it more fun.
I get that MS can totally drive MC into a direction we won't/don't like, but we will still have the good ol' original.

Or they add "Pay us a dollar for some diamonds" and ruin the game.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

even that I do not believe that MS will remove that, I'll store every version and snapshot in a safe, offline disk...

 

[BLsquared]

Or they add "Pay us a dollar for some diamonds" and ruin the game.

As I said, we can keep ahold of the old versions and play those. I have 1.5.2 still (the offline version), and I've never been "forced" to update. If there is an update we don't like, just don't update.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

As I said, we can keep ahold of the old versions and play those. I have 1.5.2 still (the offline version), and I've never been "forced" to update. If there is an update we don't like, just don't update.

I understand what you mean, the launcher helps a lot too (even that MS can get rid of it, we still got the .jar files and stuff)... but the fun part of minecraft is that you pay once (or pirate once) and get content updates forever. MS can kill that as soon as the game stop selling...

 

[FAST6191]

Maybe they will actually improve things -- the multiplayer setup and methods for installing/using mods could use so much work.

 

[BLsquared]

I understand what you mean, the launcher helps a lot too (even that MS can get rid of it, we still got the .jar files and stuff)... but the fun part of minecraft is that you pay once (or pirate once) and get content updates forever. MS can kill that as soon as the game stop selling...

True ... But at least we would have the old one. Better than nothing, right?

 

[Yil]

Goodbye minecraft, I am starting my own molecular degree sandbox or a lego sand box
CURSE MICROSOFT, I AM NOT GETTING ANY MORE PC OR SURFACE OR WINDOWS PHONE OR XBOX ONE

 

[Deleted member 194275]

Maybe they will actually improve things -- the multiplayer setup and methods for installing/using mods could use so much work.

I think that Realms is something that has a lot to improve, and MS has good servers... maybe something good come to Realms then...

 

[endoverend]

Maybe they will actually improve things -- the multiplayer setup and methods for installing/using mods could use so much work.

Thank you for not raging like everyone else here. It's about time people stop settling for these hard ways to do everything with minecraft in its current form.

 

[FAST6191]

Part of that is possibly that I am utterly indifferent to Minecraft.

However I have had to set up minecraft servers for people, install mods when I delouse the computers their kids have and generally support it... I would disagree with the practice but I can at least respect people leaving things as all command line/config file heavy, however these guys just seem to set about doing things in a crazy obtuse way without all that useful documentation (I have seen worse, not by an awful lot though). Couple that with the utterly toxic nature of most minecraft modding communities, or at least the ones that house the mods worth looking at, and I begin to question things.

I would not mind but mods and servers was a problem that was solved acceptably probably 20 years ago and things have only improved since. That Realms stuff was a step in the right direction but not by a lot and definitely too little, too late.

 

[endoverend]

The modding system is absolutely INSANE. I mean, if mods are such a cool, integral part of the game then why make them so hard to put in?? I don't want to have to copy and paste files into zip archives in the core of the game!

 

[filfat]

Goodbye minecraft, I am starting my own molecular degree sandbox or a lego sand box
CURSE MICROSOFT, I AM NOT GETTING ANY MORE PC OR SURFACE OR WINDOWS PHONE OR XBOX ONE

Someone pinged me I see.

On topic, I see this as a good thing so long they don't do a Rare(But that was quite a long time ago). They will maybe just throw in some money and developers into Mojang and integrate a Microsoft account(Which would be a good thing as you would need one less account to keep track off ) into it in some way, or maybe even a sequel with some big new mechanics. I mean we have been getting new content since 2009 and just had to pay once, I think its time for a sequel

 

[Foxi4]

So this is the Mojang owned by the Notch who whined about Oculus selling to Facebook. Then a month ago, his stance on the subject changed. I wonder what could possibly have made him change his mind on a company selling to a bigger company for around $2 billion. Hypocrite.

I still remember when he said he'd "rather have Minecraft not run on Windows 8 at all", look at the faker change his colours now.