Luck702

Everything you just said makes me cringe. I'm 20, and have probably put in 1000+ hours into Minecraft and Feed the Beast over the last 4 years. To know that the property will be hijacked to cater to child demographics sucks and it'll probably continue to happen (the Star Wars prequels come to mind). However, Microsoft is not Disney. Microsoft has little to no experience with the kind of marketing and merch push that you're talking about.

@fram: You're right, Minecraft is a big deal. But what happens now? What should Microsoft do with it? Minecraft isn't exactly an IP ripe for a sequel. Does MS try to make lightning strike twice with a second game, or contnue to port the original game to every other system and sell merch. I honestly have no idea what should/would be done with this property.

It frustrates me when people think that being a backer is equivalent to being an investor. You pay them money for an unfinished game so that you can receive said game earlier. That's it. There is nothing in any EULA or agreement that guarantees you any stake in the company or property.

Nope. This is capitalism!

And you don't think he already has close to a billion dollars if not more at this point? Think about how rich this guy already is considering every copy of Minecraft ever sold in the last 4 years. He's already set for life.

@rayeth said:

It's baffling to me as well. Minecraft was lightning in a bottle that's most likely already run its course. I doubt a sequel would achieve anywhere the same success as the first. Meanwhile, Twitch is a service that is used everyday by millions and only has potential to grow its userbase. We now officially live in bizzaro-world.

Well, Mojang already has bajillions of dollars, why not a few bajillion more. Also, I don't know if you guys know this, but Notch has always been a hugely pretentious hypocrite. I hope he buys a private island and goes away for a while.

Watching half of the people I follow on twitter (including bombers) tweet nonstop this morning about apple announcements made me shake my head. Even if the tweets are sarcasm, you're still participating in Apple's hype machine.

This can only be a good thing for the Oculus proper.

I think Nintendo is just trying to screw over kids whose parents have little to no understanding of console names. "wtf mom, this is the New 3DS. That's from like 3 years ago."