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I've long subscribed to a theory that they were being trained for something else entirely: Microsoft bought Minecraft for the interface, and were using the gam

I've long subscribed to a theory that they were being trained for something else entirely: Microsoft bought Minecraft for the interface, and were using the game to train the workforce of the future, seeing its interactions as an ideal input method for some data-mining-type activities.

PavlovsCat 8y ago
It's actually kinda sad how that happened: https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/notch-selling-minecraft-microsoft-it-s-not-about-money-it-s-about-my-sanity https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/notch-selling-minecraft-m... > Already feeling disillusioned with his place in the studio, the recent EULA situation was the final straw. Mojang was changing its EULA to better protect its players from exploitative servers, a real problem in the Minecraft community, and the internet “exploded with hate” towards Notch for a situation he says he “had nothing to do with.” > Which is when he tweeted: > > Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang so I can move on with my life? Getting hate for trying to do the right thing is not my gig. I could have totally understood Notch just wanting some FU money and/or being bored of Minecraft, but that he actually might have enjoyed working on it rather than selling to Microsoft, that sucks. Unless he's just blaming the community for something he wanted to do anyway (and I see no reason to assume that), this is something the Minecraft community did to itself.
- Drdrdrq 8y ago
  Curious: did anything change (for worse or better) after the MS acquired the game? Or is it just business as usual?
  - PavlovsCat 8y ago
    I don't know what game changes are down to Microsoft, and right now the Java Edition is still fine, but I wouldn't exactly be shocked if Microsoft dropped free modding in favour of https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Marketplace https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Marketplace at some point. But that's of course speculation, so in the present, why I do find it sad is simply because of Microsoft... at least in my books, Notch making Minecraft out of nowhere was cool, Microsoft owning Minecraft isn't really.
Tomte 8y ago
Well, American submarines get the XBOX controller, so…

PavlovsCat 8y ago

It's actually kinda sad how that happened: https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/notch-selling-minecraft-microsoft-it-s-not-about-money-it-s-about-my-sanity https://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/notch-selling-minecraft-m... > Already feeling disillusioned with his place in the studio, the recent EULA situation was the final straw. Mojang was changing its EULA to better protect its players from exploitative servers, a real problem in the Minecraft community, and the internet “exploded with hate” towards Notch for a situation he says he “had nothing to do with.” > Which is when he tweeted: > > Anyone want to buy my share of Mojang so I can move on with my life? Getting hate for trying to do the right thing is not my gig. I could have totally understood Notch just wanting some FU money and/or being bored of Minecraft, but that he actually might have enjoyed working on it rather than selling to Microsoft, that sucks. Unless he's just blaming the community for something he wanted to do anyway (and I see no reason to assume that), this is something the Minecraft community did to itself.

Drdrdrq 8y ago
Curious: did anything change (for worse or better) after the MS acquired the game? Or is it just business as usual?
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  I don't know what game changes are down to Microsoft, and right now the Java Edition is still fine, but I wouldn't exactly be shocked if Microsoft dropped free modding in favour of https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Marketplace https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Marketplace at some point. But that's of course speculation, so in the present, why I do find it sad is simply because of Microsoft... at least in my books, Notch making Minecraft out of nowhere was cool, Microsoft owning Minecraft isn't really.

Tomte 8y ago

Well, American submarines get the XBOX controller, so…