Microsoft completes acquisition of Minecraft studio

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Microsoft has successfully acquired Minecraft developer Mojang, completing a $2.5 billion purchase announced in September.

Minecraft earned a reported $326 million in revenue in 2013 across game sales, ports and merchandising. Minecraft creator and Mojang co-founder Markus "Notch" Persson has since departed the company, expressing a desire to "go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments."

Microsoft retained close ties with Mojang following the launch of the million-selling Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition in 2012, and followed up with a recent Xbox One port.



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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/11/06/microsoft-completes-acquisition-of-minecraft-studio/

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EvoVIIIPosted:

Why did Microsoft have to take Mojang? Aren't they already rich enough?

HippieSabotagePosted:

Yea microsoft takes everything!

LatencyPosted:

I don't like that microsoft takes everything and finds ways to make profits off everything.

AchePosted:

xClouD This will be interesting to see how this goes. Hopefully minecraft continues to thrive


I'm sure it will. Mojang developers are still developing the game, that won't ever change.. hopefully.

CartierPosted:

Inq Hopefully we can see some good things out of this.


Ya like maybe some more updates and what not!

1989Posted:

Sage Well Microsoft is buying all the things!!! I hope they still update it and everything the same way it has been.


Microsoft own the game but the developers are still the ones that make the game what not.

1989Posted:

Hopefully we can see some good things out of this.

SagePosted:

-Corgi
Sage Well Microsoft is buying all the things!!! I hope they still update it and everything the same way it has been.


Updates will probably come out slightly faster. Microsoft only became the publishers, not the developers. Whenever the update is made, Mojang would have to send it to MS to get approved. Now that Microsoft is the publisher, it might get approved faster? I dunno if that's how that works, though.


If it means getting out more updates faster that would be amazing but microsoft has a lot on there hands.

xClouDPosted:

This will be interesting to see how this goes. Hopefully minecraft continues to thrive

XBL-ABPosted:

ZTG There gonna ruin it for the Playstaion version


Good.
Minecraft was originally supposed to be a Xbox Exclusive.
But they said they will keep the PS version going. -MS


I just wished for Tekkit or Big Dig on console.


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