On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_Studios#History
In a blog post announcing the purchase, Owen Jones wrote: “Everything is going to be OK. <3”
http://web.archive.org/web/20140915131835/https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/
Ten years later, Mojang now has been part of Microsoft almost twice as long as it has been independent.
It’s interesting to look back at the original announcement video from Xbox as well:
https://youtu.be/lXNWchwDiG8
Why would the original owners beliefs affect the morality of supporting a series of games that hes not benefiting from?
They even removed all mentions of notch and added pro-trans splashes
@RandomVideos They should have also removed all the code and artwork he contributed to the project as well (which is to say, the project should have been taken out of the market). Otherwise it’s merely pushing the controversy under the rug.
Why would touching anything ever created by a controversial person be considered morally wrong?
@RandomVideos Because it still platforms the person, even if indirectly. You might remember the slightly wonky paintings made by a certain Austrian painter that plagiarized Chaplin’s mustache, right?
But minecraft removed all references (that i know of) to notch
How would supporting a game paltform its creator if they are no longer involved with it
And how would removing all the assets and code made by that creator fix the issue?