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I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft were in talk with Mojang since 2011. They knew what they were doing. When Oculus was brought by Facebook for $2 bill
by dwild 12y ago
I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft were in talk with Mojang since 2011. They knew what they were doing. When Oculus was brought by Facebook for $2 billions, Notch said that he already refused a similar offer. It's clear to me that Lego would never be able to get the price lower and I'm pretty sure that Microsoft manipulated them to be able to make them sell, but that's nothing more than an assumption.
- kjs3 12y agoNot strictly true, actually. Mojang isn't a publicly traded company, so they could have in theory sold themselves to whomever they wanted for whatever they wanted. It doesn't sound like Notch was in it for the money, and he famously derided M$. Sounds almost like he wanted to do a deal with Lego, a bunch of non-money stuff screwed that up, and when M$ showed up with $2.5B, he said "Fuck it. Give us the check and I'm out".
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