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Minecraft Owner Notch's Farewell Letter to Fans: "It's not about the $"
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:18 pm
It's about his sanity.
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"I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it’s changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It’s certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.
A relatively long time ago, I decided to step down from Minecraft development. Jens was the perfect person to take over leading it, and I wanted to try to do new things. At first, I failed by trying to make something big again, but since I decided to just stick to small prototypes and interesting challenges, I’ve had so much fun with work. I wasn’t exactly sure how I fit into Mojang where people did actual work, but since people said I was important for the culture, I stayed.
I was at home with a bad cold a couple of weeks ago when the internet exploded with hate against me over some kind of EULA situation that I had nothing to do with. I was confused. I didn’t understand. I tweeted this in frustration. Later on, I watched the This is Phil Fish video on YouTube and started to realize I didn’t have the connection to my fans I thought I had. I’ve become a symbol. I don’t want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don’t understand, that I don’t want to work on, that keeps coming back to me. I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.
As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.
Considering the public image of me already is a bit skewed, I don’t expect to get away from negative comments by doing this, but at least now I won’t feel a responsibility to read them.
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 you were 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 be responsible for 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."
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:21 pm to musick
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It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity
Oh give me a break man.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:23 pm to musick
If true I can understand why he's leaving, but he is about to get PAID, and isn't turning the money down. If he really felt that way he could have sold the company to the current employees for much less and walked away. That being said he build it and if he wants to cash in then good for him.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 4:50 pm to DoUrden
His 2.5 billion check won't bring him any more sanity.
This post was edited on 9/16/14 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 9/16/14 at 5:21 pm to musick
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It's about his sanity.
He was worth over $600 million and made over $101 million last year from MC. He admitted he already had way more than he could ever spend. He lives very modest as he doesn't even have a drivers license or anything. I don't see why he would sale MC, that was still making tons of money every year, if it was just about the money considering all of the above.
If you knew much about him, you would know he grew up fairly poor and even quit his job to work on indie games which is where MC comes from. He would rather live like a hermit because he just loves making games and programming.
He was thrust into the position he has been in and it's been well documented that it isn't something he has enjoyed. That is a big reason he handed MC over to a team at Mojang to work on so he could do other things but those others things never panned out because of the pressure to follow MC and that alone bothered him. It's obvious this is a move to distance himself further from MC and to continue on with a life without MC whatever that may entail.
If it was about the money, he has been offered tons of money for it since the day MC gained popularity. EA tried to buy it for a few billion a few years ago.
But keep rolling your eyes like you know shite.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 5:23 pm to DoUrden
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If he really felt that way he could have sold the company to the current employees for much less and walked away
Several of the employees also had stock options, even though it was a private company. They will all get paid very well from this too.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 5:46 pm to musick
I was sure he was going to follow that line with that cliche movie line: It's not about the money, it's about the SHITLOAD of money!
Posted on 9/16/14 at 6:10 pm to MadMaxwell
I guess Minecraft 2 will get delayed again.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 7:12 pm to sicboy
Enh, I don't have any problem believing him. He's set for life. Dealing with the hassle of a huge game and a vast, sometimes ill tempered, fanbase probably wasn't how he wanted to spend the rest of his life.
Yeah, he laid it on really thick there, don't get me wrong. But his core message of "this is a real pain in the @$$" is one I can certainly understand. Give me a few hundred million and I think I might just retire as well.
Even a few million will do.
Yeah, he laid it on really thick there, don't get me wrong. But his core message of "this is a real pain in the @$$" is one I can certainly understand. Give me a few hundred million and I think I might just retire as well.
Even a few million will do.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 12:43 pm to musick
What;s wrong with him making money off of his product? He made it, why shouldn't he cash in on it?
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