Minecraft Sold! Notch’s statement

Hello I’m ivx tiger and today we have some absolutely massive minecraft news for gods which platform you’re regarding whether or not they’re going before because Mojang the people that make minecraft have officially announced today that yes they are in fact being bought by Microsoft and Microsoft are

Going to apply the Roadster Mojang and the rights to Minecraft as a house so yeah in the blog post from Owen that she bought off so he says yes the deal is real Mojang is being fought by Microsoft then there’s a lot of big wall of text

And I figured I’d walk you through some highlights to give you an idea of what this sale actually means because you know there’s lots of misinformation going around but the ps3 ps4 versions are gonna stop and be sold and so as the iOS version loads of weird stuff like

That and I figured I’d go in and I’d explain it and kind of break down releasing so the first thing is what it’s it was reassuring to see how many of your opinions mirrored those of the Mojang disc that we have the news change

Is scary and this is a big change for a so it’s going to be good though everything’s going to be ok trying to reassure us err but you can probably expect please remember that the future of Minecraft and you the community are extremely important to everyone involved

If you take one thing away from the post let it be that so the most important thing they want stress is they want to keep the community growing and large and stuff because it’s know I’m Microsoft all Mojang’s interests layer not be that way because if Mojang ruin it then

That’s a bad thing for them and if Microsoft ruin it then they just spent 2.5 billion on enough so that’s not really an ideal place for anyone to be in so next up why did you sell minecraft so this is the big question that’s been lost cuz not just generally very antsy

Big corporation thing but what they state in this keep odd paragraph just here as you might already know notch is the creator of Minecraft and the majority shareholder at Mojang he’s decided that he doesn’t want the responsibility of owning a company of such a global significance over the past

Few years he’s made a few attempts to have made attempts to work on smaller projects but the pressure of owning minecraft became too much for him to handle the only option was to sell Mojang he’ll continue to do cool stuff though don’t worry about that so if you

Don’t know but not just try to work on loads different projects such as 0 x 10 C such as Scrolls such as his new like doom in like flash or a WebGL a game he’s got loads of different projects he wants to work on but he’s always scared that minecraft will always

Overshadow that and by selling Mojang and letting someone else always work on that he doesn’t have the big pressure and that going to make sense I get that if you have something that’s way bigger than yourself it can be a lot of pressure to maintain that I guess

Notches more many more that’s why you step down from development over a year ago and I think it was like two or three years ago but he stepped down from development and now he’s finally decided that he’s gonna be not having any you know stay in the game anymore which is interesting so

Yeah there’s only a handful of potential buyers with the resources to grow minecraft on a scale that it deserves we’ve worked closely at Microsoft since 2012 when the 360 version came out by the way and I’ve been impressed by their continued dedication to our game and its development we’re confident that

Minecraft will continue to grow in an awesome way minecraft means many different things to lots of people around the world and which every Mojang stir we feel this is the best but everyone you guys included to benefit so they genuinely seem to think that it’s a good benefit of course

They’d say that anyway but I really think that this could be a great thing because it might Mike stop Ashley for the resources right now Mojang’s like a 40-person team if they throw the resources to make it a team worthy of the status so they bro in a hundred

People that could benefit every edition of the game they could even benefit us in the console cuz you know they could actually throw more people at poor jail fro a different studio each version of the game for instance they could do lots of really cool interesting things and

That’s what I’m kind of looking forward to seeing there I want to see all versions of Minecraft improve and it looks like Microsoft won that happen too because more you know improvements more money the one thing that is interesting is because minecraft 2.0 or you know because we’ve reaching 1.8 now we might

Have minecraft to be like a paid upgrade or something like that I there’s gonna be some form of monetization on this and it might not be good but you know compared to amount of time you get from the game I think it could be a generally

Good thing so yes what about the other editions minecraft will they stop being developed they address this now there’s no reason for development sales and support for PC smash Mac Xbox 60 Xbox one ps3 ps4 Vita IOA just names all of them out of Minecraft to stop of course

Microsoft can’t make decisions for other companies predict the choices that they might make in the future so only basically says there is there’s no intention Microsoft stopped any of those editions of course lots of money’s been made and and then they kind of try and say that Oh even though we’re not going

To stop development deliberately if someone else does something that might hint that way then maybe they’ll be the case so maybe for instance if you know Sony doesn’t renew the Minecraft contracts they won’t go there if you know Apple gives them lots of bad stuff they’ll stop that version lots of weird

Stuff like that so kind of saying we’re not gonna stop it on our own terms to make you know more money for the Xbox one or whatever but we’ll leave the option open if you know they do anything bad – you know give a retaliation taken away

Minecraft so I guess that’s it basically means they’re gonna keep on Aleutians if they can so is the game going to change but we still we have to make videos mods awesome builds etc etc and basically minecraft will continue to evolve and stopping players making cool stuff is not anyone’s interest so that’s

Basically repeating what I said earlier where it’s like they don’t want to no one wants to it’s bad for everyone and Microsoft seem to know that which is good so what about the Mojang stuff what’s happening to you guys so little people curious about this one particularly not true you know didn’t

Want it so the quick big thing is it’s too early to confirm who’s going where or whatever but the founders not Carl and Jacob are all leaving so not the biggest one you probably know he’s leaving the company he’s gonna do something cool apparently also Carl who

Was the CEO of mojang is also going to be leaving and finally Jacob the lead designer off the scrolls I believe he’s also going to be you know so that’s kind of an interesting thing pre if the biggest guys are merging or leaving and potentially even more hopefully people

Like Jeb and you know that leads lands on the poor condition stay so he still get the same they kind of game but you know right now it’s looking like we lost love good people which have sucks so what’s happening to other Mojang projects likes girls we don’t know yet

We’ll share news as soon as we do so scrolls and everything us the Mojang have done haven’t been anywhere near as successful as minecraft and it might seem that they’re just gonna try and focus or eases up like all the resources on minecraft which would be a good thing

For you know you guys cuz i doubt if you place girls but you know it’s still uninteresting doesn’t move so will we be able to tweet him out features and interact the community on a personal ever just like you’ve done over the years yes that’s not going to change so

We’re still gonna get the cool like League tweets from like Geoff that’s like oh here’s this cool things I’ve spent three months working on and stuff like that so I’m looking forward to that and finally how much money was the company bought for Microsoft acquired Mojang for a smooth 2.5 billion dollars

Thanks for reading everyone so yeah that’s basically the summarization Microsoft are buying Mojang but they want to largely keep it the same they might try and throw more people that and make it better but they may know as much as anyone that it’s bad for them like in

Multiple ways so if they did ruin Mojang then we’d have not brought Microsoft so Microsoft will lose image and also they’d lose a lot of the money that they just spent 2.5 billion dollars to attain because it’s something like 8 times Mojang’s yearly revenue so by Mojang so

They need to keep them good for at least another eight years just to make a profit here so I imagine that’s what they’re gonna try to do over the next 5-10 years we’re gonna see a loaf good hopefully changes in Minecraft and maybe some more you know price realisation for

The Xbox one slash X 60 in the future but right now they’re gonna try and keep equal and just try and get the transition done nice and smoothly and that’s the plan so I guess it’s kind of cool so just after I finish this video not sure Ashley tweeted out his

Statement and I figured I’d throw out there because it doesn’t see us a whole bunch of information about Mojang but it’s important to know why he left and it’s kind of a heartfelt statement so I’ll give you the kind of free skim and then give you the kind of big in format

So basically he says I’m leaving Mojang I don’t see myself as a real game developer minecraft suddenly became a huge hit and people are telling me it’s change games I never meant for it to either it’s certainly flattering to gradually get frost in some kind of public spotlight is interesting so he

Relatively a long time ago he decided to step down from minecraft women he hand over to Jeb and he decided to stay just because he was part important for the culture according to people so he stayed and then he realized that people just kept on giving him hate and like kept on

Saying thanks to him when something bad happen for instance with the EULA people through that him even though he had nothing stove it and he decided he didn’t want to be as simple anymore so after that he said I’m gonna be going back to doing small projects and lube em

Des so if you ever accidentally make something that gains traction he’s gonna abandon it immediately so just give you the big you know kind of summary of this thing I’m aware this goes against a lot of what I’ve said in public I have no good response to that I’m also aware a

Lot of people are using me as a symbol of some perceived struggle I’m not I’m a person and I’m right there struggling with you I love you all of you thank you for turning minecraft into what it has become but there are too many of you and I

Can’t respond poke something this big in one sense it belongs to Microsoft now in a much bigger sense it’s belonged to all of you for a long time and that will never change it’s not about the money it’s about my sanity so not is only leaving because he can’t deal with all

Of the stuff coming his way for stuff he has no control over so he’s selling it apparently which is interesting to me but yes so he’s never gonna be in the public spotlight again is his attention I guess he’ll always be one of the most famous developers because you know he

Created minecraft one of the biggest hits ever that shouldn’t have ever been a hit and that’s always gonna be interesting so Moe Jencks still gonna be awesome hopefully and minecraft is still gonna be the best project they make and their hope gonna make it better and better and

Better resolve this so I hope you enjoy the video please do like it if you did enjoy it I’d very much appreciate that share it if you really liked it let people know about this I think it’s good news in general but let me know what you think down the comments down below

Because I I don’t know I it’s it’s Microsoft they generally don’t do too bad but sometimes they do so really mixed opinions there other than that thank you for watching the video and here is an outro with other videos of mine so if you enjoyed this video you

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