Report: Microsoft Trying To Buy Mojang, Creators Of Minecraft

[Kuroodo]

Though I hate sourcing Kotaku, I'm to lazy to get the other sources :P Source: http://kotaku.com/report-microsoft-trying-to-buy-mojang-creators-of-min-1632692098

Kotaku님이 먼저 게시:

"The Wall Street Journal is reporting that, according to "a person with knowledge of the matter", Microsoft is in "serious discussions" to buy Mojang, the studio that made smash hit Minecraft.

The deal is reported to be worth a whopping $2 billion, and "could be signed as early as this week"."

My thoughts:

If Mojang does do this, they will be one of the most hated companies ever I believe (I think I'm exaggerating a little). Also it wouldn't make any sense so not gonna happen. If it does happen, Microsoft simply lost $2billion lol.

Why would they lose $2 billion? Well a bunch of people will begin to protest. Not to mention that as soon as 1 limitation is added to the game Minecraft, more of an uprising would commense. The main focus part is/are minceraft servers and modding. If they mess with that somehow, they are screwed. Microsoft is going to screw something up. i just know it.

Alot of people have been saying that modding might be limited or be removed from Minecraft if Microsoft does do this. The reason for it is due to their recent steps taken against people who modded on Xbox Live.

This game has only recently been launched onto PlayStation. Hmm, I wonder if the microsoft version would gain any exclusive content...

But what are the chances that Microsoft wants to do this just so that they could get Minecraft support for Win 8 lel?

I'm surprised that this is in serious discussion. I would have thought that Mojang would have just said "No" right off the bat...

Update from PC Gamer:

Article: http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/09/10/notch-approached-microsoft-about-rumored-mojang-buyout-says-bloomberg/

PCGamer님이 먼저 게시:

"Yesterday's all-but-unbelievable rumor is today's "looking like it might actually be so," as reports that Minecraft studio Mojang is on the verge of being acquired by Microsoft continue to surface. Even more interesting, the word on the street is that the idea of the buyout came not from Microsoft, but from Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson himself."

[kevinshow]

The Defiler님이 먼저 게시:

People have most likely moved on to bigger things than MC by now. It's been out for a long while now and I honestly question exactly how much one can play before being sick of it.

The nature of MC being a sandbox game actually is one of its strong points. The other strong point is the modding community. Vanilla MC may actually give interest for a short while, but it's when you add in the mods and texture packs and other fan-made items, as well as fan-made adventure maps, server genres, etc that keep people playing.

The other side of that is that a single world is huge. Even if you explored a lot of your 100-minecraft-square area, you just pop over to the next 100-square area and explore there, too.

When I played multiplayer with some friends over 2-3 months, we still pretty much had just explored a very small part of the world map.

[Fork_Q2]

navorskatie님이 먼저 게시:

Good points. if they remove MC from PC release, and only on Xbox, how many people will buy the Xbox for MC?

They can't remove copies that already exist. Besides, source code is already freely availible to download, it could just be forked if MS does buy Mojang out.

[Toaster Bath]

So Minecraft is going to suck now.

Since Microsoft is being such a little girly ♥♥♥♥♥ they are going buy Mojang. It's also rumored that once the sale has finished, notch will be leaving the company. So they are probably going to stop supporting the PS3/PS4 version, the rest of the updates for the PC/Xbox are going to suck ♥♥♥♥.

Also, I don't really get notch. He seems like a shalow little ♥♥♥♥♥, first he gets all butthurt about Facebook buying Oculus rift and now he seems to like the idea?
It's called stick to your principles you greedy son of a ♥♥♥♥♥.

Additonal:
I only own the PC version, but I think it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for notch to open up minecraft on multiple platforms and then pull this ♥♥♥♥ move.

[Naedmi]

Batman님이 먼저 게시:

Since Microsoft is being such a little girly ♥♥♥♥♥ they are going buy Mojang. It's also rumored that once the sale has finished, notch will be leaving the company. So they are probably going to stop supporting the PS3/PS4 version, the rest of the updates for the PC/Xbox are going to suck ♥♥♥♥.

Also, I don't really get notch. He seems like a shalow little ♥♥♥♥♥, first he gets all butthurt about Facebook buying Oculus rift and now he seems to like the idea?
It's called stick to your principles you greedy son of a ♥♥♥♥♥.

Additonal:
I only own the PC version, but I think it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for notch to open up minecraft on multiple platforms and then pull this ♥♥♥♥ move.

And them buying Mojang is going to make it worse? I don't understand people like you.

[Spawn of Totoro]

I don't see MC changing much (for better or worse) if bought by MS. Mojang on the other hand, that will be changed. If MS did do anything to MC, it would be by making MC 2 with DLC, micro-transactions, subscription, ect. They tend to leave the game a studio preciously made alone.

Though you could forget about official updates to the original MC from that point on.

Batman님이 먼저 게시:

So Minecraft is going to suck now.

Since Microsoft is being such a little girly - they are going buy Mojang. It's also rumored that once the sale has finished, notch will be leaving the company. So they are probably going to stop supporting the PS3/PS4 version, the rest of the updates for the PC/Xbox are going to -

Also, I don't really get notch. He seems like a shalow little - first he gets all butthurt about Facebook buying Oculus rift and now he seems to like the idea?
It's called stick to your principles you greedy son of a -

Additonal:
I only own the PC version, but I think it's - for notch to open up minecraft on multiple platforms and then pull this - move.

Notch hasn't sold anything yet, nor has there been any public discussion one way or another. He may very well be considering the offer, though he may say no in the end. Nothing wrong with that, I know I would at least think about it if I were him. $2 Billion is a lot of money after all. He would be set for life if he took it.

[Ranko]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

I don't see MC changing much (for better or worse) if bought by MS. Mojang on the other hand, that will be changed. If MS did do anything to MC, it would be by making MC 2 with DLC, micro-transactions, subscription, ect. They tend to leave the game a studio preciously made alone.

Though you could forget about official updates to the original MC from that point on.

Unless it ends up like rareware.... no one can forget the atrocities performed....

[Skyte100]

Batman님이 먼저 게시:

So Minecraft is going to suck now.

Since Microsoft is being such a little girly ♥♥♥♥♥ they are going buy Mojang. It's also rumored that once the sale has finished, notch will be leaving the company. So they are probably going to stop supporting the PS3/PS4 version, the rest of the updates for the PC/Xbox are going to suck ♥♥♥♥.

Also, I don't really get notch. He seems like a shalow little ♥♥♥♥♥, first he gets all butthurt about Facebook buying Oculus rift and now he seems to like the idea?
It's called stick to your principles you greedy son of a ♥♥♥♥♥.

Additonal:
I only own the PC version, but I think it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for notch to open up minecraft on multiple platforms and then pull this ♥♥♥♥ move.

Let the hate flow through you. Notch probably won't stick around, he likes working with Microsoft so he might trust them with the company, and neither have confirmed or commented on it. So quit your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Fork_Q2]

Malik Blishtar님이 먼저 게시:

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

I don't see MC changing much (for better or worse) if bought by MS. Mojang on the other hand, that will be changed. If MS did do anything to MC, it would be by making MC 2 with DLC, micro-transactions, subscription, ect. They tend to leave the game a studio preciously made alone.

Though you could forget about official updates to the original MC from that point on.

Unless it ends up like rareware.... no one can forget the atrocities performed....

True, also, Peter Molyneux had gone on the record and said Lionhead was never the same after Microsoft bought them out.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Malik Blishtar님이 먼저 게시:

Unless it ends up like rareware.... no one can forget the atrocities performed....

I'm not familiar with their latter work at that time, so I couldn't say. Looking up their list of games, what I said is still valid.

MS didn't do anything to the games they made before they were bought by MS, it was only the ones that came after that had issues and that is what I was referring to. The game that would come after the purchase.

[Ranko]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

Malik Blishtar님이 먼저 게시:

Unless it ends up like rareware.... no one can forget the atrocities performed....

I'm not familiar with their latter work at that time, so I couldn't say. Looking up their list of games, what I said is still valid.

MS didn't do anything to the games they made before they were bought by MS, it was only the ones that came after that had issues and that is what I was referring to. The game that would come after the purchase.

Microsoft forced a change from Banjo Threeie, to nuts and bolts. Basically, a fun platformer, to a racing game, and then saying in that game THAT NO ONE LIKES PLATFORMERS ;-; *goes to sob in a corner*

[Spawn of Totoro]

Malik Blishtar님이 먼저 게시:

Microsoft forced a change from Banjo Threeie, to nuts and bolts. Basically, a fun platformer, to a racing game, and then saying in that game THAT NO ONE LIKES PLATFORMERS ;-; *goes to sob in a corner*

I understand that, but it happened after they were bought by MS, not before. It wasn't a released game that MS made them go back and change. It was a game under development while owned by MS.

What gets me is they were told to focus on the Kinect, then MS did a 180 and said the Kinect wasn't a focus anymore. That is leaving them bloodied, wounded and alone in the middle of a battle field with nothing more then a first-aid kit, a hand gun and no ammo.

Still, even this was after it was bought out.

I don't think MS will take MC and turn it into a 2d platform, but they may do so with MC2.

[Fork_Q2]

Spawn of Totoro님이 먼저 게시:

Malik Blishtar님이 먼저 게시:

Microsoft forced a change from Banjo Threeie, to nuts and bolts. Basically, a fun platformer, to a racing game, and then saying in that game THAT NO ONE LIKES PLATFORMERS ;-; *goes to sob in a corner*

I understand that, but it happened after they were bought by MS, not before. It wasn't a released game that MS made them go back and change. It was a game under development while owned by MS.

What gets me is they were told to focus on the Kinect, then MS did a 180 and said the Kinect wasn't a focus anymore. That is leaving them bloodied, wounded and alone in the middle of a battle field with nothing more then a first-aid kit, a hand gun and no ammo.

Still, even this was after it was bought out.

I don't think MS will take MC and turn it into a 2d platform, but they may do so with MC2.

It wasn't out yet, but Halo (third-person game with strategy elements, announced to have simultaneous Windows and Mac releases) was close to completion when Microsoft bought out Bungee.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/1999/07/22/heavenly-halo-announced-from-bungie

[Spawn of Totoro]

Fork_Q2님이 먼저 게시:

It wasn't out yet, but Halo (third-person game with strategy elements, announced to have simultaneous Windows and Mac releases) was close to completion when Microsoft bought out Bungee.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/1999/07/22/heavenly-halo-announced-from-bungie

Yep, but still wasn't released (as you said). They then made it an X-Box exclusive. I waited a long time for that PC release. :-P

[Noctuary]

navorskatie님이 먼저 게시:

The Defiler님이 먼저 게시:

People have most likely moved on to bigger things than MC by now. It's been out for a long while now and I honestly question exactly how much one can play before being sick of it.

The nature of MC being a sandbox game actually is one of its strong points. The other strong point is the modding community. Vanilla MC may actually give interest for a short while, but it's when you add in the mods and texture packs and other fan-made items, as well as fan-made adventure maps, server genres, etc that keep people playing.

The other side of that is that a single world is huge. Even if you explored a lot of your 100-minecraft-square area, you just pop over to the next 100-square area and explore there, too.

When I played multiplayer with some friends over 2-3 months, we still pretty much had just explored a very small part of the world map.

I get EXACTLY what you are talking about. My friends and I spent an entire year turning a single world into an amusement park of wonderous structures. We even built the mall of america with the blueprints as a guide. Crazy, huh?

However MCs reign can only last so long. Even the kiddos will get tired of it. Something bigger and better always comes along. Also. not to be illogical but it seems like nowadays you can get stuff a lot cheaper on PC with bundles and sales and all. A Minecraft account is expensive when compared to a steam sale cart.

I'm not saying MC is or was bad but as time goes on it will have more and more "push" factors and people will stray from the herd. MS paying money to cut more people off with their typical "MS'ishness" of exclusives and whatnot doesn't make much sense.

[Ranko]

http://youtu.be/tv9s7swLtUk
this is exactly what it will be like with a second minecraft if microsoft gets involved.