Microsoft really did buy Mojang

I definitely get that sense from reading up on the responses. And I get the sense that Minecraft is starting to shift into a "mature state" where changing anything is met with resistance making the whole thing "generally unfun".

To be clear I don't fault Notch for selling. I am only wondering if Microsoft over paid or if they could have spent that money in better ways like revitalizing first parties to release several new games and IPs instead or spent a fraction acting as an indie producer. I feel that Microsoft isn't going to beat Sony let alone anyone else with a game studio that had one hit where instead they could bury Sony in an avalanche of games.

Not too surprised by this. Notch never struck me as a person that liked the attention he got from Minecraft and all the money it made him. Getting out of Mojang (Which seems like a smart thing, since that studio wasn't going anywhere beyond Minecraft) and taking the money to maybe finance some projects you like, doesn't sound like a bad deal. I hope he sticks around the Swedish indie scene, because people like him inspire others to try their luck at making games.

Courier, Kin... dozens of project whose main function was to drain resources and produce nil. I'd list one more that occurred recently, but I can't bring it to mind. Just because they have dozens of meetings doesn't mean the old white men in charge understand what the hell they're doing.