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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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[–] aeronmelon 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 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”.

[–] dual_sport_dork 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Terraia and No Man's Sky certainly leap to mind.

[–] Myr 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stardew Valley... i'm sure there's more

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well factorio doesn't seem to be getting free updates anymore, that was mostly only during early access. They've decided to do paid DLC now instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The point is Minecraft is far from the only game that gets free updates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It would be cool to have a big ass list of games that do that though. Maybe wikipedia has one, or some steam forum guide. That would be a lot of work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's not true. Wube is working of a big Factorio 2.0 style update. They push updated on what they're doing every other Friday, and they all go in detail and are very interesting.

Factorio 2.0 will shine brighter than ever before. Also, there is murmurs of possibly open sourcing faction later in the lifecycle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't space engineers get abandoned? Or was that the medieval one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The medieval one. Space Engineers is still getting free quarterly up dates.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Deep rock galactic is fantastic, highly recommend

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

A lot of devs do it, you just don't play them so you think it doesn't happen.

[–] WIPocket 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blaster_M 2 points 3 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.

[–] WIPocket 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] CosmoNova 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And it's definitely worth the money! Just odd. I fully expected them to develop Minecraft 2 and 3 years ago to cash in and overwork some of the basics but that didn't happen for better or worse, but probably better. It remains to be a truly unique game till this day.

[–] dual_sport_dork 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, "Minecraft 2" was arguably Minecraft: Dungeons which as we all know categorically failed to set the world on fire.

[–] CosmoNova 2 points 3 months ago

That's definitely just a spin-off. It's an entirely different genre of game and was never intended to be sequel. Same goes for the choose-your-own-adventure one.