Minecraft and it’s studio, Mojang, will be owned by Microsoft soon for $2.5 billion. Upon Microsoft’s confirmation, a lot of people panicked. Minecraft is a very popular game available on all platforms: iOS, PC, Xbox, Android, and PlayStation, and this deal might create a lot of changes.
Microsoft accordingly stated that there’s no reason for fearing the deal that’s about to take place as Microsoft will still allow the game to be available for everyone, and although Microsoft will be paying for the intellectual; property of Minecraft, they were not able to get the creator of the game: Markus “Notch” Persson. He is leaving Mojang along with Mojang CEO Carl Manneh, and Mojang co-founder Jakob Porser.
It was Notch himself who went to Microsoft and strike a deal. As Mojang became a globally significant company, its status became too much to handle for Notch as he was only trying to work on smaller projects. He just can’t handle the pressure of owning Minecraft anymore. He did not expect that the game would grow and become this popular.
Notch is more than contented to go back to his small web
experiments, and according to him: “If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.”