On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.

For me the only downside is having to use a Microsoft account to play.

Otherwise I think the frequency of updates and continued support of the Java version have been pretty solid.

Some of the mechanics have changed but I often grow to like them when I stop viewing them in isolation. For example I thought it was annoying iron ore became drops, but when I found I could use fortune pick it all made sense!

The outcome was unfortunate (no more games ever I guess??) but Tim Schafer's announcement video was at least self-aware and funny.
"I always wanted to stay independent and free. But then I thought: what if I had a lot of money".

Minecraft is also the only base game I know with a retail price that keeps going up instead of down. Quite bizarre if you think about it.

Just want to say it's good they didn't kill or make the franchise super mundane. They bought it, and kept improving on it.

I don't play Minecraft now, however I know enough people who still do and continue to love it (all these years later). That's just nice.

I still play minecraft nearly every day with my wife, siblings and soon my kids. I have no love for Microsoft but the team working on Minecraft IMO has done a great job expanding the game. The new terrain generation, mobs, mechanics are all fun additions and holy cow some of the new composers they have on the OST are brilliant.

Im sure things would be different if Mojang didnt sell out but who knows how. The game we actually have today is just as magical to me as it was in the early days.

Am I the only one who questioned the legality of them deleting accounts if they didn't migrate?

"mojangstas" is crazy

I remember thinking it was madness to spend that much on a game that was already on its way out...

And now Notch spends his time being a wasteful, hateful idiot.

For me, that was the signal to end playing Minecraft.

@MinecraftWikiEN @minecraft > "Everything is going to be OK"

and, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, we can now definitively say that everything was indeed not ok

And yet they still refuse to add vertical slabs & stairs.

10 years of enshittification.

@MinecraftWikiEN @minecraft I struggle to comprehend that it's been ten years.

Koolaid is cheap

It was and still is good for the game. Minecraft would've died under Notch.

Did they ever implement that modding API?

@MinecraftWikiEN And then, Notch went mask-off, retroactively making the entire series morally questionable to support (no, the fact that he sold it away is irrelevant as he's still the original author, and no, Miku is not the author either)

and they did fuck all with it

@MinecraftWikiEN And then, Notch went mask-off, retroactively making the entire series morally questionable to support (no, the fact that he sold it away is irrelevant as he's still the original author, and no, Miku is not the author either)