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

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      • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Dude i remembered six months in advance and still lost my account because the process was a disaster. I haven’t played it since.

          • django
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            2 days ago

            I like minetest, but it is not a exact copy of the minecraft experience and many tutorials for more complicated machinery won’t translate easily to it.

            If i buy a game, which doesn’t need a microsoft account, I would like it to stay that way.

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      2 days ago

      They had some push to get people to migrate by giving them free Bedrock if they did but I missed that. Then they either started the promotion again or just combined the purchase but I’d already bought bedrock because I was curious about the ray tracing. For real, there was like a six month window there. I’m probably the only sucker to have done this.