Notch: "I Basically Announced Minecraft 2" [Jan 04, 2025, 1:04 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
A recent post and
poll on X from Markus "Notch" Persson, the solo developer behind
Minecraft tests the waters for a "spiritual successor" to the voxel-powered
sandbox game that everyone digs so much. He
sold the original game to
Microsoft in 2014 for a reported USD$2.5 billion, and while he's dabbled in
game jams since, this is the first indication he's ready to dive into a bigger
project. The poll asks the "serious question" of whether fans want him to create
a spiritual successor to Minecraft or the "traditional roguelike" he's planning.
Oddly he stated he's already "passionately working on" the roguelike, but says "sure I'd
take that cash" when discussing knocking off his own creation. That's odd
for someone with FU money, but in
this post he says
"I intend for the money to the [sic] spent for good," so presumably he's not
adding a Scrooge McDuck vault to his 23,000
square foot Beverly Hills Mansion. In
another post he
does say he'd be willing to partner with IP-holder Microsoft for a smaller share if they
were interested in an authorized sequel, "just to make it clear I'm not doing it with ill intent." That
doesn't seem likely, as Notch's outspoken online commentary on race, gender, and
sexuality caused Microsoft to exclude him from the game's
10th anniversary celebration, even before he refers to its stewardship of the
game "shittification." After seeing the results of his poll, Notch
"basically announced
Minecraft 2":
I basically announced minecraft 2.
I thought that maybe people ACTUALLY do want me to make another game that's super similar to the first one, and I'm loving working on games again.
I don't super duper care exactly which game I make first (or even if I make more), but I do know I'm making one, so I figured I'd absolutely be willing to give it an honest shot in the form of a spiritual successor to minecraft and put up a poll about it.
My intentions are to be clear and honest about it, saying that spiritual successors are usually kind of... you know... washed up. Tragic. The things I'm fearing my next game is going to be anyway and try to push myself to avoid. So why not do the thing that people DO want and are willing to give me, somehow, even MORE cash for.
I intend for the money to the spent for good, but my god have I learned I fail a lot. Winning is failing until you make yourself succeed.
Oh and I also very much value being a man of my word, so I also intend to do this in a way that in no way tried to sneakily infringe on the incredible work the Mojang team is doing and that Microsoft is successfully doing the microsoft shittification about.
And I respect them for doing that. It's their job. And they, from what I understand, let the studio do things their way, which seems very fair to me.
Overon wrote on Jan 5, 2025, 15:04:
If I got 10 Billion dollars, I would invest it, and take some of the interest/investement income and just give it away to people. It would be remarkably easy to not be a piece of shit, I could have afford to be emapthetic toward everyone and just give them money to help them. It would life altering money. That 2nd billion dollars is more useful to others than it is to me.
I agree. Past a certain point, you're just accumulating and it becomes more like a game and just numerical counting. Realistically, they can't possibly spend it all and they know it. But nevertheless, they become more and more possessive and less willing to part with a single penny through taxes or real charitable giving. Basically, like Tolkien's quote about Smaug from "The Hobbit" where he noted that dragons know the value of their hoard down to the last coin and even though they can't make any actual use of their treasure, they are enraged if even a small part of it is taken from them.
Unfortunately, empathy tends to have an inverse relationship to financial accumulation in virtually all people. Chuck Feeney would be the rare exception to that rule by being a billionaire who actually gave away his entire wealth while he was still alive - and actually gave it away as opposed to the billionaire clowns with their fake-charity private foundations and donor-advised funds which were created as tax-avoidance schemes and provide only a trickle of actual charitable giving, just enough to qualify for the tax writeoff.
The Flying Penguin wrote on Jan 5, 2025, 12:18:If I got 10 Billion dollars, I would invest it, and take some of the interest/investement income and just give it away to people. It would be remarkably easy to not be a piece of shit, I could have afford to be emapthetic toward everyone and just give them money to help them. It would life altering money. That 2nd billion dollars is more useful to others than it is to me.
I am amazed that Notch has come out of his 10 year "I don't give a fuck" orgy, and wants to write a game.
I dunno if he still has it in him after 10 years. At that age he's probably past his prime solo coding, and to be honest, he wasn't a very good team leader at Mojang. But I wish him well.
I would point out that if he wanted to 'do good' with the proceeds, he has enough money in the bank to 'do good' without tying it to the success or failure of a game.
Re: Notch: "I Basically Announced Minecraft 2"
Jan 5, 2025, 12:18
Jan 5, 2025, 12:18
I am amazed that Notch has come out of his 10 year "I don't give a fuck" orgy, and wants to write a game.
I dunno if he still has it in him after 10 years. At that age he's probably past his prime solo coding, and to be honest, he wasn't a very good team leader at Mojang. But I wish him well.
I would point out that if he wanted to 'do good' with the proceeds, he has enough money in the bank to 'do good' without tying it to the success or failure of a game.
I dunno if he still has it in him after 10 years. At that age he's probably past his prime solo coding, and to be honest, he wasn't a very good team leader at Mojang. But I wish him well.
I would point out that if he wanted to 'do good' with the proceeds, he has enough money in the bank to 'do good' without tying it to the success or failure of a game.
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In the current political and social climate, don't be an aggressive monkey . Show that you have evolved that important thin sugar coating called civilization. Don't fall for the fools.
Bah, people shouldn't be bothering with MC anymore anyway. Vintage Story utterly pwns it! 
I rather hope for brand new IP than MC2.
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Cutter wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 18:04:Donkey_Punch wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 16:33:
Just say no to bigots.
Which bigots? All bigots, or just the non-liberal kind?
All bigots.
What an incredibly weird thing to say.
Unless you're trying to do a reverse racism thing here and argue that you're a victim of racism and not of the consequence of being a dick to everyone you come across.
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Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:41:What? He was campaigning on "draining the swamp." He is the swamp and everyone around him is the swamp.Sheik Rattle Enroll wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:40:Wow, that's funny, didn't know he had said that.
Oh man remember when he said Trump would clean up corruption in the western world?
Donkey_Punch wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 16:33:Damnit he's a bigot too? It's almost like I don't want to know how shitty people who I admire are.
Just say no to bigots.
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$2.5 Billion and he's looking to work? I guess when he works it's a labor of love.
Re: Notch: "I Basically Announced Minecraft 2"
Jan 4, 2025, 17:12
Jan 4, 2025, 17:12
The best we can hope for is the final collapse of capitalism thanks to corporate rule/fascism/inevitability, at this point. 🙂
Re: Notch: "I Basically Announced Minecraft 2"
Jan 4, 2025, 16:33
Jan 4, 2025, 16:33
Just say no to bigots.
RedEye9 wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:44:Sad thing: Gates and other rich people like Zuckerberg are now asking the stable genius and new president to grant them audiences. Because, you know, $$$ is worth more in the account than ethics and showing backbone. Sadly, Persson just was earlier in the line than all the other billionaires trying to snck 0ff the orange mental patient.Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:41:Yep, he's a real treat. And a Qanon believer. so much winningSheik Rattle Enroll wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:40:Wow, that's funny, didn't know he had said that.
Oh man remember when he said Trump would clean up corruption in the western world?
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-conspiracy-minecraft-creator-notch-markus-persson-1351465
from the wiki
In 2017, he proposed a heterosexual pride holiday, and wrote that those who opposed the idea "deserve to be shot."
... click the link below for more...
In 2019, Microsoft removed two mentions of Persson's name in the "19w13a" snapshot of Minecraft and did not invite him to the 10th anniversary celebration of the game. A spokesperson for Microsoft stated that his views "do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
In the current political and social climate, don't be an aggressive monkey . Show that you have evolved that important thin sugar coating called civilization. Don't fall for the fools.
Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:41:Yep, he's a real treat. And a Qanon believer. so much winningSheik Rattle Enroll wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:40:Wow, that's funny, didn't know he had said that.
Oh man remember when he said Trump would clean up corruption in the western world?
https://www.newsweek.com/qanon-conspiracy-minecraft-creator-notch-markus-persson-1351465
from the wiki
In 2017, he proposed a heterosexual pride holiday, and wrote that those who opposed the idea "deserve to be shot."
... click the link below for more...
In 2019, Microsoft removed two mentions of Persson's name in the "19w13a" snapshot of Minecraft and did not invite him to the 10th anniversary celebration of the game. A spokesperson for Microsoft stated that his views "do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
Sheik Rattle Enroll wrote on Jan 4, 2025, 14:40:Wow, that's funny, didn't know he had said that.
Oh man remember when he said Trump would clean up corruption in the western world?
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Re: Notch: "I Basically Announced Minecraft 2"
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Jan 4, 2025, 14:40
Oh man remember when he said Trump would clean up corruption in the western world?
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