Why did he sell it?

Why did he sell it?

10 figures.

What would you do if you could sell something you don't really care about for billions of dollars, to a company that would basically do what you've been doing with it? They won't even ruin it more than you even if you did care about it a little.

$$$

He wanted to ensure none of his descendants ever had to worry about money.

Why would he not want to sell it? Reminder that Notch is one of us, he just wanted to be NEET, play/make vidya and shitpost on twitter all day.

what about honor

lots of pesos and not having to care a bunch of autistic retards

He's not a faggot

Because he'd rather live the good life and shitpost on Twitter all day instead of wasting his time developing a game.

Quiet, Angeal.

What honor? The guy didn't care.

Honour about what? It's a fucking video game and he wasn't entitled to work on it any more than he wanted to.

What about it? He wanted to sell his product and make more money, he is 110% entitled to do it

We would all literally do the same thing in his shoes

>honor

they gave him a billion fucking dollars dude

This, notch is the final red pill.

If someone offered me a billion dollars to retire from catering to artists and live comfortably for several lifetimes, I'd fucking do it to.

Are you crazy?

He even gave the employees a gift of 250k each so long as they remained with a Microsoft for 2 years. Not a bad fucking deal for them either. With 250k you could take part of that and create a nice nest egg for investments to keep feeding you money.

How much did he actually get after Swedish/American taxes and that stupid house?

but microsoft is evil and doesn't pay taxes...

Because he lost interest in working on it and wanted the money.

I actually find it refreshingly honest that he's just come out and admitted that. A lot of people would say some shit like, "I want to work on a different game," or something. Notch just openly admits he was tired of working on the game and just wants to shitpost and play vidya.

Notch did not love his creation. For him, there was no value in holding onto it. In the end, Minecraft is in no worse shape in Microsoft's hands.

lol
>Honest

"I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world.

"Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it’s changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It’s certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.

"A relatively long time ago, I decided to step down from Minecraft development. Jens was the perfect person to take over leading it, and I wanted to try to do new things.

"At first, I failed by trying to make something big again, but since I decided to just stick to small prototypes and interesting challenges, I’ve had so much fun with work. I wasn’t exactly sure how I fit into Mojang where people did actual work, but since people said I was important for the culture, I stayed.

"I was at home with a bad cold a couple of weeks ago when the internet exploded with hate against me over some kind of EULA situation that I had nothing to do with. I was confused. I didn’t understand. I tweeted this in frustration.

"Later on, I watched the This is Phil Fish video on YouTube and started to realize I didn’t have the connection to my fans I thought I had. I’ve become a symbol. I don’t want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don’t understand, that I don’t want to work on, that keeps coming back to me. I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.

"As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.

"Considering the public image of me already is a bit skewed, I don’t expect to get away from negative comments by doing this, but at least now I won’t feel a responsibility to read them.

"I’m aware this goes against a lot of what I’ve said in public. I have no good response to that. I’m also aware a lot of you were using me as a symbol of some perceived struggle. I’m not. I’m a person, and I’m right there struggling with you.

"I love you. All of you. Thank you for turning Minecraft into what it has become, but there are too many of you, and I can’t be responsible for something this big.

"In one sense, it belongs to Microsoft now. In a much bigger sense, it’s belonged to all of you for a long time, and that will never change.

"It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity."

This Notch didn't give a shit about his game.
Reminder that
>Notch introduced fishing and never did anything with it
>promised lanterns as an alternative to torches but just made jackolanterns and said fuck it
>didnt fix boats for months
>literally said he doesnt like the ocean so he wont be adding content for it

If you've actually been with the game since birth to Microsoft purchasing it you've faced alot of disappointment

because he realized it was worthless and having anyone give him anything for it was a scam

microsoft fell for it, because microsoft is fucking retarded

What ABOUT honor?

So he can ball out of control

>bought minecraft back in 2009
>work with small children
>a six year old asks if I know what minecraft is

Well do you?

no

Is he living just of the money or has he invested on something already?
It eventually runs out after a while.

Come on, the kid is six. It's an innocent question, and an icebreaker: if you answer yes, he can tell you about all the cool stuff he did and know you'll understand. If you answer no, then he gets to tell an adult about this awesome game (in his mind, don't roast me for this) he's been playing and hopefully impress them.

>Come on, the kid is six. It's an innocent question, and an icebreaker:
Yeah I don't hold shit like that against kids, it just blows my mind Minecraft started development EIGHT YEARS AGO
>running out of 2.5 billion dollars in a single human lifetime
Lol are you one of those fucking retards that thinks 1 mil, or even something like 250k isn't alot?

Just shut the fuck up

/salutes
You and I, brother. We are kin.

>Lol are you one of those fucking retards that thinks 1 mil, or even something like 250k isn't alot?
No, but have you seen his mansion and shit?
He already spent a lot of the money.

Dude. BILLION dollars.
You'd have to be a fucking retard not to jump on that.

just did the math
50*365
2500000000:18250
=he could spend136 986$per day for 50 years

>tries to make the game
>people tell him he's making it wrong, not adding content people want
>tries to make excuses
>takes months on rewriting the entire game from groundup to 'fix' problems and make it more streamlined
>winds up having the exact same problems anyways
>gets married, finds out wife hates him and wants his money
>leaves everything to Jeb

$$$

And he'll keep spending it until you and your great children die.


Pic related is a calculation, this is what would happen if Notch put 500k into a high yield dividend stock with an output of about %5.41

This isn't even accounting for the fact the stock will grow with time due to it basically being a mutual fund.

AND THATS JUST 500,000 USD THATS NOT EVEN ALOT WHEN YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

You need to stop thinking poor and start thinking smart man.
This

>being so up your ass you reject 1 billion dollars
I'm not made of money of course anyone would.

how come no big company had an idea like minecraft before him?

>minecraft
>honor
Not sure if idiot or autism

Who would have thought that the world wanted a shit looking game with a small budget, in the world of AAA titles only with budgets bigger than Hollywood?

Lego was founded in 1932
Stranded 2 came out in 2007
Dwarf Fortress came out in 2006


it's about the presentation not just the idea. Building and crafting isn't new.

You must've been a kid during the late 2000s and early 2010s. IndieDB was booming.

after the success of countless similar games? I don't know. big publishers are retarded I guess.

>thinking you ever run out of money when you obtain that kind of capital

He could do basically anything with that amount of capital and it will just get bigger, or at the very least not decrease

>Stranded 2 came out in 2007
This is like being Dorian Grey and seeing the painting if you catch my drift

kill me

the sad thing is that Sup Forums shilled minecraft into popularity but then notch pretended to buy Sup Forums but didn't and insulted the whole board

pls explain

he promised to buy it if someone delivered quads, someone did but notch lied

If Bitch wanted to babysit autists all day he wouldn't have some Minecraft

He's realizing how long it's been, and how old he's gotten

It's okay, we can feel that way together.

Does this game still run like ass or have they replaced Notch's terrible Java code?
Seriously, a game that looks like Minecraft has no excuse to be so poorly optimized, fucking shameful

>Honor
>Over Legos

Why is illya so hot

Why even pretend to want a job during your never ending existential crisis when you can become even richer and just destroy SJW's on twitter all day long?

Devs these days have become extremely lazy in terms of optimization.

Prime example of a badly optimized game: Black Desert. Holy fucking shitballs this thing runs like ass on even supercomputers.

Witcher 3 is extremely well optimized, though.

Honor doesn't pay the bills, you manchild.

You have to have honor in the first place

Why wouldn't you sell your assets at the height of their value? It's not like minecraft is going to be worth that amount forever

>it's been nearly 7 years


oh my fucking god.

There's this old saying:
"You love minecraft way more than we do"

>1 Billion dollars
Microsoft paid notch $2.5 Billion for Minecraft

>Be indie developer
>Make a bare-bones sandbox game with minimalistic graphics
>Finally get the game off the ground and people start playing it and make a good bit of money
>Still have to work long days and late hours to update the game, manage content and fix bugs
>Big corporation comes by and offers to pay a billion dollars for the newly launched game
>No more having to work on this game, no more having to sit in my shitty apartment and barely make ends meet

Why would anyone turn this down?

Would you really turn down 2 billion dollars?

whats more badass than to receive 2 billion?

turning down 2 billion

He didn't, that was his dumbass friend Jeb because "he couldn't take the pressure anymore".
Notch quit the day the game got released with the 1.0 patch back in 2011

He might still be the most honorable man in the world.
No one else was in his position.

>>Notch introduced fishing and never did anything with it
What are you talking about?
He added fishing, and now you can catch fish and eat it?
What the fuck do you expect?

>different types of fish
>different types of bait
>actual fishing mechanics
Sorry you bought minecraft last year.

>add feature that doesnt really do much
>farming fucktons apples via super sapling farms is more reliable for getting HP back
Only reason people didnt complain about fishing when it was released was because the rod was bugged and you could use it to grapple mobs around.

Are you the minecraft defense force?
And this

Because being a billionaire is better than owning Minecraft.

He must simultaneously be in paradise and hell.

I wonder how that feels.

Does Notch have friends?

Like actual normal guys he can talk to and be ordinary around?

He's not utterly alone there, is he?

Or how about the fact that the very idea of Minecraft was done by someone else first? What he did better than the other guy was marketing, which is what he was, a marketer. He is a business man. He never gave a shit about the games.

Unless he pours a ton of money into a new project or startup company that produces something worthwhile, it is clear as day that he never gave a fuck. He was just looking to make money. Which is fine.

I would be his friend. I'd even be willing to overlook the fact that he made Minecraft.

I liked reading this. Dude was actually honest.

Then he outbid Jay Z and Beyonce on a mansion deal in California. What a fucking boss.

he was a Sup Forumsirgin and the guys at mojang were kiss-asses only in it for the money in the first place, you can tell from the way they act now
alone in the beginning, alone in the end.
nothing different except the size of his house

>moralfags

Because he sold out everyone he could've called a friend. Now he is surrounded by fakes who pretend to like him for his money and he can never go back.

Wrong.
The people whomst he thought were friends with in the first place were scum, who were legitimately in it for the money the whole time.
They're nepotistic as fuck and are basically human garbage.

>give everyone in your team 250k to stay with Microsoft for a year so Minecraft doesnt go to shit overnight
>this is ontop of their normal pay
>gets married
>wife is a gold digging whore
>friends he had outside dev team were just money grubbing whores too
I wish people who just turned 18 would go, why even post if you have no fucking clue what you're talking abotu?

Money is all that counts you faggot :DDD

But that's after he got rich. His story is not that different from that of most lottery winners except the sheer money involved.

>what about honor
What about it?

He stole infiniminer and called it minecraft. There's no honor.

well who the fuck wouldn't? microsoft offered that much because they're an actual business with decades of experience, and some of that in video games. they know exactly what they were doing making all of that money back and multiplying it, and notch knew exactly what he was giving away, one of those thing being enamored by millions of fat sweaty neckbeard ponyfuckers and autistic slobbering idiotic children. i'd take any amount of money to get away from that shit and not work ever fucking again.

poor zachtronics

Ask him on twitter. He's pretty active.

I'd wager Zachary Barth is probably happier with his life than Notch desu

dedodated wam

You can find him on twitch sometimes talking to streamers. He's friends with Witwix. idk about normal friends though.

true but it'd be nice if he got more monies to make more autism games
they're fun

No fucking way would he truthfully answer that on 'twitter'

Only children believe in honor when somebody is staring down a 10 figure pay day.

No matter how many times I relearn it, It always surprises me that the Nether was originally meant for fast traveling.