Confirmed: Minecraft is now Microsoft's

[qornea]

Microsoft to own Minecraft – confirmed

Microsoft has confirmed that it is buying Mojang – the company behind Minecraft

 

[MetalSoup]

 

[Glordit]

RIP in Peace Minecraft, GFWL or what ever disease MS is going to use will taint you for eternity.

 

[PsychoFish]

RIP in Peace Minecraft, GFWL or what ever disease MS is going to use will taint you for eternity.

Look, you don't just fork out $2.5bn if you are planning to bungle something, what MS bought is more like access to 50 million potential people who might be willing to shell out money for "premium content" and in the process make money from their biggest rivals (Apple and Sony), as Minecraft is rather popular on the Apple Store and PlayStation

 

[DieGrootHammer]

Well, I for one am happy that the dead stuck. Compared to Mojang, Microsoft has massively better server and cloud support, so it's very likely that Minecraft will get much better multiplayer and server setup. It will be good to see what MS does to the game.

 

[Mister 44]

I have it on good authority that Windows 9 will allow you to build your own start menu from resources mined in Office.

 

[mk786]

Wonder what they have planned hmmm...

 

[PsychoFish]

This gives a good view of what MS probably has in store for Minecraft

http://kotaku.com/why-microsoft-spent-2-5-billion-on-the-makers-of-minec-1634807464

 

[Ike_009]

This gives a good view of what MS probably has in store for Minecraft

http://kotaku.com/why-microsoft-spent-2-5-billion-on-the-makers-of-minec-1634807464

Great read, I'm kinda keen to see what they do now

 

[Toxin]

Saw this on 9gag....