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Money isn't everything, according to Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson's "increasingly despondent" tweets:
Shortly after the sale of Minecraft's parent company, Mojang's co-founder Markus Persson had reportedly left the studio in order to pursue other projects. Naturally, before immediately moving on to another enterprise, the man more affectionately known in the gaming community as "Notch" has taken several beats to reap the benefits of his success, outbidding Beyoncé and Jay-Z on a $70 million home, and hosting lavish parties in his newly acquired mansion. However, he's also been afforded plenty of time to reflect on how far he's come, and not surprisingly, it's quite lonely at the top.
Recently, Notch took to his Twitter account to air his grievances with the current situation in which he finds himself. Although Persson's net worth currently rests at $1.33 billion as of writing, the famous game designer has confessed that such prosperity has essentially cursed him in the grand scheme of things, as he's "never felt more isolated". Apparently what John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote all those years ago is true, and it's that money can't buy love. Taking that into consideration, Notch's Tweets grow increasingly despondent, as seen below.
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The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Monday August 31 2015, @03:56PM
that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.
On September 15, 2014, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership of the Minecraft intellectual property. The deal was suggested by Persson when he posted a tweet asking a corporation to buy his share of the game after receiving criticism for "trying to do the right thing." (Wikipedia)
People are perennially unable to use "had to"/"forced" correctly. Were there any legal reasons or anything that he "had to" sell the company? Somebody with a gun to his head?
For some reason the narrative online became that I had decided that we should have an End User License Agreement and that I was like ruining the game for everyone. And I wasn’t even involved in Minecraft development at this point. So I got really frustrated. I couldn’t deal with all these fans that just get the wrong idea and just get pissed off at me and I hadn’t even done anything. So I just tweeted, I can’t put up with this, does anyone want to buy the company? (Forbes article [forbes.com])
Oh boo fucking hoo. That's the Internet for you. With a product this big, there will always be a lot of people who don't understand you.
I first wore a hat after seeing a friend wear a hat. It seemed like a neat way to keep snow off my head without having to wear a beanie, so I tried it on for a while. Turns out I started wearing the hat at around the time people took pictures of me and put them online and in newspapers, so it kind of became part of my public image. Over time, this hilarious narrative developed online of how hats are for social rejects, and I more and more regretted accidentally picking the hat as part of my image, and started to phase it out without making a big deal out of it.
Notch, you need to stop listening to the haters online.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"