The guy who required a login for his game, allowing Microsoft to steal ownership from the earliest owners while he walked away a billionaire? That guy? That’s the guy talking about digital ownership?
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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What was that second point? I was an early buyer (before infdev) and I still have it.
The second point is if you missed the window to "migrate" your account to a microsoft account, you don't have minecraft anymore. They just completely deleted your account and you are unable to play.
oh that sucks. have people in that group tried contacting support to regain access to the game?
Yeah and you can't, you missed the window, tough shit.
Paid copies of the game were taken away from people for the crime of "not migrating an account when we told them to". Either because they didn't play at that time but wanted to go back, because they didn't have access to the email / didn't read the one the account is registered on, or didn't bother with it.
This happened to me
one of their best articles ever
Yes notch is a dick but on the upside, they're at 1.3M signatures!
I don't follow Minecraft drama. Why's he a dick?
Alt right bigot
Gathered that after reading more of the comments. Thank you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
Check out the personal life section.
FYI, you can link to a specific section of a Wikipedia article like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Personal_life
Never pass up an opportunity to post this onion (clickhole) article
Yeah, he had his stopped clock moment for 2025. What a shame. Shit, I used to really like that guy.
Notch is a POS, he just needs the PR.
He's a bit of a tragic figure, terminally online dude who went down the alt right pipeline until he wouldn't publicly admit that the Nazis were bad. He used to openly support trans rights! What a mess.
im lucky that I didnt become a deranged alt right freak. I became an annoying leftist instead
Lot of rich people need to learn how to properly exit to wealthy retirement like Tom from MySpace did fading away. Don't be Notch and please don't become Zuckerberg or Musk. Just go away and leave people alone.
It was definitely not a graceful fall. Hate to see it happen but, how can you be convinced against human rights? His beliefs must have been quite ephemeral to switch up like that.
I had my own son radicalized by Tik Tok's algorithms. With some parental guidance he managed to "break loose", but no, there was nothing wrong or fleeting with his views before that happened imho.
Extremely scary to watch.
How did you manage? I feel like that's a bit hard to correct. I'm impressed.
He's autistic (level 2) so logic works if expressed clearly showing him that the ones he were influenced by weren't being honest/truthful. Also, still young enough to listen to his parents.
Add to that radicalization pipeline bit the fact that obscene wealth like what Notch came into tends to be extremely socially isolating and directly causes people to lose touch with reality. Not to be like "oh the poor billionaires," but having that kind of money literally causes mental illness. For their own good, no one should be allowed to have that kind of money.
no one should not be allowed to have that kind of money
I think there is 'not' too much - or do I read it wrong?
Yeah I missed that one. When I was writing it I changed my wording from "they should not be allowed," to "no one should be allowed," and missed a word. Thanks.
Yeah I agree, he just didn't have anyone by him in real life reminding of reality and had several people online reminding him of delusions
Even if you disregard that, he fucking sold minecraft to microsoft. He is the biggest offender ever in terms of killing games.
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.
It still blows my mind that someone thought Minecraft was worth two billion dollars. ...in 2014. .......and they seemed to be mostly correct.
Mostly? Pretty sure Microsoft has seen s profit on that purchase.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah uhhhh let's maybe not promote shit that Notch says.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Doesn't mean we should publicize every broken clock. There are plenty of working clocks we could highlight instead.
Maybe so but the more big-name supporters of the concept of owning ones games, the better. Not to mention the juxtaposition of his other views from what I've been seeing from him adds to the absurdity of the concept of not keeping what you pay money for.