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On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_Studios#History

In a blog post announcing the purchase, Owen Jones wrote: "Everything is going to be OK. <3"
http://web.archive.org/web/20140915131835/https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/

Ten years later, Mojang now has been part of Microsoft almost twice as long as it has been independent.

It's interesting to look back at the original announcement video from Xbox as well:
https://youtu.be/lXNWchwDiG8

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Minecraft is also the only base game I know with a retail price that keeps going up instead of down. Quite bizarre if you think about it.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

Minecraft is one of the only base games on the market that is perpetually having content and features added to it. For free.

And I don’t know of any developer other than Mojang that prioritizes and targets bug fixing to such a high degree.

Edit: TIL, some people see the phrase “one of the only” and think it means “the only”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Factorio is always the same price... and the big 2.0 update is next month... with a paid DLC Expansion coming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, kinda the same price, they sometimes up it to account for inflation. I do see the DLC difference (this could be said to be an equivalent of for example Minecraft Dungeons with the amount of content, but I see how it is kinda "more of the same"). Anyway, the 2.0 update does bring a lot to the base game for free.

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