It's not always about money, as he said.
Classy move by Notch. Respect.
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#52I think there are some interesting parallels with J K Rowling. If he releases anything now, it's big news (even Cliffhorse ). He might have to start "writing" under a pseudonym just to get any sense of doing something fresh without intense public scrutiny.
"she", btw.
The 'he' refers in Notch in the above comment.
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#53I think there are some interesting parallels with J K Rowling. If he releases anything now, it's big news (even Cliffhorse ). He might have to start "writing" under a pseudonym just to get any sense of doing something fresh without intense public scrutiny.
"she", btw.
Are you saying Notch waited for this big news story to break so that he could quietly announce a gender change without anyone paying too much attention? He should become a politician.
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#54This whole Minecraft thing has been very interesting to follow. I tried the game a few times and it's not really for me but everything around Notch's story is interesting (I bet their going to make a movie about this at some point). Not everyone can be an entrepreneur and I feel that in this case (on a different scale of course), we basically watched a plausible version of how Apple could have gotten started if there…
They already made a movie
http://www.gog.com/movie/minecraft_the_story_of_mojang_delux...
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#55this is so awesome that he can make things that he loves. Become super rich with it, but still staying who he is. This kind of achievement is incredibly hard.
Thanks for great work !
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#57Heartbreaking to read what we do to people.
Only heartbreaking in the sense this is the new reality for many people. If you ever gain some semblance of popularity, everything you say and do is over analyzed. From your Twitter feeds, your work, your public comments, everything.
Notch just secured the best thing he could have. Now he has the money to do what he wants and not be at the forefront of what he created. Something I'm sure he's been wanting to do for a long time. Just like he said, he gets to step back into the shadows, where he's more comfortable, out of the limelight and content to do what he really wants to do.
I can only imagine what we'd be writing had he opted out say a year ago, before MS bought his company. What would we be saying then?
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#58I think there are some interesting parallels with J K Rowling. If he releases anything now, it's big news (even Cliffhorse ). He might have to start "writing" under a pseudonym just to get any sense of doing something fresh without intense public scrutiny.
"she", btw.
OP was talking about Notch and parallels with JKR, the 'he' is intentional.
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#59>As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. It has always amazed me how down to earth Notch is. Now, he's going to be a billionaire doing little game jams. It's hard to believe and quite awesome. It's like Bruce Wayne deciding to spend the rest of his life playing with legos.
I never considered Bruce Wayne much of a tinkerer. More like Tony Stark playing with Legos.
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He's already invested many years of his life into mojang, why do you think you are in a position to tell him what to do with his money?
Markus is 100% free to do whatever the hell he wants with his money and you nor anybody else should place conditions on or make demands on him.