http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/ did you read this?
Well, Notch has sold us all out. Weâre sunk.
With any luck, microsoft is smart and all they do is help with PR, legal issues and finances whilst leaving the game and community pretty much as it is.
I think the main reason notch did it was just to get the project off his hands. He apparentlly dosenât like the stress that making one of the most popular games ever as brought.
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Nothing will change, except you need 
to play online! 
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I had to use an image generator!
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We need to wait to see what Microsoft have for Minecraft 
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And itâs comments like that this that drove Notch to want to sell MojangâŚ
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TBH, if I was a developer that worked on Minecraft and I wanted a job at Minecraft⌠Iâd start contacting them. Itâs probably pretty safe to say that theyâre interested in bringing some of the âcommunityâ projects in-house (namely, those that are so central to the multiplayer experience like Sponge).
Maybe I can a job in Redmond working on MinecraftâŚ
I think this will bring about many, many changes. Some negative, some positive. I have a feeling microsoft is going to respect the current modding community. I hope that cpw is going to stay though and forge, they are really vital to the sponge project itself. I donât think that any rash decisions should be made until something is certain.
GG all, Mojang thinks we canât survive without drama for at least a month.
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Hopefully that changes, iirc half the problems with bukkit stemmed from no one know what was happening.
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My reaction:
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More Minecraft-doomsday foretelling? Câmon guysâŚ
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I have some concerns about how Microsoft has historically treated gaming communities. I donât have a lot of faith that theyâre going to be any less tone-deaf than they have in the past about interacting with their customers, and their attitude about maverick projects like Forge and Sponge has in the past been somewhat uneven- to put it very charitably.
Iâm currently in âwait and seeâ mode. Good for Notch, though. 2.5 billion dollars is a hell of a payday, and I donât blame him at all for wanting to get out of the Minecraft crosshairs.
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Why does every single person but a few think that this is a bad thing. People have been verysad about whatâs been happening to mojang, Microsoft, as an even bigger company, might solve the DMCA thingys and all the other blahblahs.
I just hope that it wonât change Minecraft in a bad way altho not thinking it will, Microsoft DOES know that they didnât only buy Mojang, they also bought the community. Microsoft understands that if this community is gone they wasted 2.5 billion dollars for nothing.
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The Mojang team will join Microsoft Studios, which includes the studios behind global blockbuster franchises âHalo,â âForza,â âFableâ and more. Microsoftâs investments in cloud and mobile technologies will enable âMinecraftâ players to benefit from richer and faster worlds, more powerful development tools, and more opportunities to connect across the âMinecraftâ community.
The first marked sentence sounds promising for modding things, but the second one⌠it sounds a lot like some kind of ms-account shit comes to MinecraftâŚ
Microsoft plans to continue to make âMinecraftâ available across all the platforms on which it is available today: PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and PlayStation.
Thatâs good.
I donât really know how to feel about this⌠On the one hand I hope it will continue like it is and get better, and on the other hand I donât like the list of bad things, that Microsoft can possibly do to the game and more important, the community. I hope everything will be good. :3
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I guess a lot of us are concerned about how Microsoft defines âcommunityâ. I used to work there (for Zune) and while I know that pretty much all of the people there are talented, decent and hardworking individuals who as individuals have the highest ideals and goals in mind for all their endeavors- and I have nothing but love for all of them- Microsoft as a company hasnât typically earned a lot of trust with regard to how open theyâre willing to be and how they work with their customers.
Make no mistake, Microsoftâs not purchasing Mojang, theyâre not purchasing Minecraft, theyâre not even purchasing a community. In a sense, theyâre purchasing a generation. I hope theyâll take their responsibility seriously, and I believe they probably will- but that doesnât mean thereâs not some very well-earned apprehension about this because their track record isnât exactly stellar.
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Hoping Microsoft will have it rewritten in C++ so itâs more optimisedâŚ
Then again that basically kills the remains of the modding community 
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