I feel like a lot of people here are also missing a huge claim that Mojang promised a lot of promotion to the author and did not make good on that promise. That

I feel like a lot of people here are also missing a huge claim that Mojang promised a lot of promotion to the author and did not make good on that promise. That would mean that Mojang did not, in fact, make good on their half of the contract. Also, a lot of people are saying that the end poem wasn't a big part of Minecraft objectively speaking, which I think is false. Personally, as a kid, reading the poem gave me shivers and is a pretty big part of why I continued playing the game for so long and got so invested in it - it did give it meaning and gave it a sense that it was a piece of art made with love. It also inspired me to make my presentation on video games as art in elementary school and I got in a great debate about it with my art teacher which was a great learning experience for me, so it definitely had a solid impact on me and I imagine at least a million other people. It's a sizeable part of the game for me and I'd say it definitely was worth at least 5% of the experience for me.