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
and they did fuck all with it
No, they did much worse than fuck all
They pushed the version with microtransactions as the main version (Changing Minecraft Bedrock to just Minecraft and changing Minecraft to Minecraft Java).
Not to mention microtransactions existing in any real version of the game at all. Once upon a time, that was a joke. Now it’s not a joke.
You can’t say that, they gave us Bedrock Edition!
Really wish they hadn’t.
To be fair, Bedrock replaced a lot of stilted, proprietary console versions of the game. It doesn’t stack up against Java, but it’s the best version on every platform that doesn’t have Java as an option.
The legacy console editions were far better than Bedrock imo. They were actually made for a console instead of porting a mobile version to console
Nintendo Switch Edition was absolutely my favorite, and now you can only play it if you had a copy before they took it off the marketplace.
Every platform that doesn’t have Java? So like none of them??
@burgersc12 @aeronmelon Java may launch on pretty much any platform, but try running the Java version on any low end hardware, on base model consoles, on older smartphones, performance will absolutely tank
@DavidGarcia @MinecraftWikiEN They switched to glorious Microsoft account system citing “security improvements”, so there is that truthfully “great” thing that happened.