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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @05:22PM
Oh, goddammit I replied to the wrong article. Sorry everyone.
(Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday August 31 2015, @07:02PM
Hey, there's something he could do with his money: Security! Cleaning up this mess of insecure network protocols that grew into the basis for most of our economy. Plenty of assholes, I suppose, but dealing with assholes is something that could be delegated. He could do some of the high level managing to make sure his money is being spent right, but otherwise make video games in his corner office all day. He'd have the benefit of a job to go to and some structure but enough free time in the day to fart around with games, and then publish under a pseudonym. Notch becomes head of some IT company and slowly fades off the radar, while his (new) pseudonym makes a few games and is the part-time indie developer again.
It's not a perfect solution, but it's an idea.
(Score: 1) by Eunuchswear on Tuesday September 01 2015, @03:19PM
No, no, I think you're on to it -- Notch should give all his money to ISIS.
That way he would get to spend the rest of his life with interesting people.
Watch this Heartland Institute video [youtube.com]