• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    Even if you disregard that, he fucking sold minecraft to microsoft. He is the biggest offender ever in terms of killing games.

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      21 hours ago

      Lets be honest… if someone walks up to you and offers 2 fucking billion dollars for a block game you made on the whim… youd take the money.

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        17 hours ago

        It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. …in 2014. …and they seemed to be mostly correct.

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        19 hours ago

        Wasn’t he already rich, though? Once you’re over, like, $10mm, you don’t really need to work anymore.

        And then when he took the money, I think he just squandered it on bullshit.

        If someone handed me 2 billion dollars I’d probably be building trains and houses, or maybe something for the climate crisis. Not jerking off alone in a house full of candy. He’s a shithead failure of a human, if that’s all he’s done.

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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          8 hours ago

          As a millionaire i would definitely accept an offer to become a billionaire. When you already have enough for a carefree life, money becomes power instead and then you can exert your will on the world. I can definitely see how that is really tantalizing, especially nowadays where virtually everyone has an unspecified feeling of being powerless against the system.

    • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      In the context of SKG, Minecraft seems pretty unkillable to me.

      • Solid single player experience
      • Vibrant ecosystem of people hosting their own servers

      If Microsoft disappeared overnight, everyone could still play Minecraft.

      I guess there is a login system, but back when I used to play MC, you could play offline with cracked copies.