I got this information from Minecraftforum.net home page if anyone wants to see.
Mojang’s recent deal with Microsoft has left a lot of unanswered questions for the community. How will servers be affected? What about mods? Youtube videos? DLC, future updates, even Realms? Today, one question was definitively put to rest: the question about whether Youtubers would still be allowed to monetize their Minecraft videos, series, and parodies. Microsoft’s Phil Spencer said it quite clearly:
This hopeful message shines a positive light on the future of the game, suggesting that Microsoft is both aware of what has made Minecraft so insanely popular, and willing to stay the course, to keep the game as it is, in a way everyone is familiar with. So, if you were holding off on uploading any more Minecraft Let’s Plays, parodies, or anything else, wait no more!
I’m sure they’ll have people whose job it is to interface with the community. If I were them, and I wanted to preserve the rich community surrounding modding and YT, I’d try to make sure I had someone working directly with the big projects and YT’rs. In this way, you could leverage the modders and YT’rs to help launch new features and help connect yourself to the community better.
This could include eliciting help for the Mod/Plugin API, also. I hope someone from MS contacts Sponge soon.
MicroSoft paid more than Mojang ever made over its entire existence. Mojang did not get bought, they got blown out of the water. Yet noone is curious how MicroSoft’s going to earn their money back? And make a profit in the same process?
“A sequel was suggested by some, but in a new interview, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer says the company must “meet the needs” of the existing Minecraft community before potentially expanding the franchise. He also reminds gamers that the deal has not yet closed (it is expected to by the end of the year) and that Mojang is still in control of the series.”
only if there is a staff/CEO change again back to someone with ideas similar to the previous CEO that made X-bone a thing (the whole “it’s not just a gaming system, it’s a full entertainment system” thing), however i highly doubt that and Phil Spencer is the opposite, so “Xbox is for games, let’s calm down people” is his thinking as well as the fact he seems to like the community the way it is.
