On the 15th of september 2014, notch sold minecraft to microsoft for a price of two point: five billion dollars, not exactly a bet, isn't this the guy was always molly on twitter. Did it guys guys? I feel like this. This guy's biggest problems are like internet twitter replies, most of the time, minecraft microsoft for a price of 2.5 billion dollars, not exactly a bad day at the office. After purchasing a 70 million la mansion and forming relationships with some of the most influential and famous people.

In the world, the expectation of life following such might have been happiness, fulfillment and freedom. However, the reality for minecraft's founder was actually quite the opposite. Within less than a year of selling minecraft marcus, not a person's life had become lonely, unfulfilled and disordered expressed to his relationships with other well-known influences. We used to be like, let's hang out with notch all the time.

We would call him we and me personally, but without justin i would reach out and say: hey, let's hang out and every time i would reach out. It was just like a hard, no various tweets relating to the meaninglessness in his life and microsoft's attempt to remove notch from minecraft's history, despite having it all from an outsider's perspective. Notch appears to have very little from an insider's perspective, but it wasn't always like this. There was one point at which notch was considered a god amongst men.

I kind of always knew that i wanted to make games and i said so in school to my like career counselor thing and she said uh. Well, that's probably not going to happen. Notch had been programming since the age of eight, but had little success until the idea of minecraft would come along in early 2009 and after an incredibly short development period of only two months. The game went, live and was advertised on internet forums and in youtube videos.

What i'm playing with is a little java, applet called minecraft. It's a work in progress, so not all the features in it are fully implemented. Yet, however, in the beginning, minecraft was so basic that a community was formed around the game with one simple goal: learning how to play it. There were no tools, no health; no mobs, no caves.

You could build yourself a dirt or cobblestone house, but that was basically all notch would notice this and begin to implement various challenging elements into the game, providing minecraft with some depth ultimately leading to an explosion. That's popularity by 2010, approximately one year after its unofficial release in may 2009, the game had sold 1 million copies likely making notch a millionaire at minimum. After only a year of development, the popularity of minecraft began to snowball further as friends invited friends to try it out youtube videos, brand new servers, a multitude of game-changing updates, making minecraft more and more appealing to the diverse gaming community on the 7th of november 2011. Notch would tweet 4 million yay in reference to having sold 4 million copies of the game only 2 and a half years after its significantly basic release.

A company with this milestone was the announcement that minecraft was about to be launched out of beta into an official game and a week later, at minecon 2011 not should be given the honours of doing so. Notch is going to officially release minecraft minecraft sales had hit 9 million by the end of 2012, then 33 million by the end of 2013., not only 701 million dollars in 2012, taking from 150 million in total yearly profit. On top of this, he had racked up a whopping 1.4 million followers on twitter, displaying his popularity amongst the minecraft fanbase, also implementing a temple of notch adventure map some videos displaying such having gained upwards of 17 million views to this day by 2014. Sales had once again jumped up past the 50 million mark, and things were looking bright for both notch and the game.

Minecrafter generated almost a billion in revenue since 2009 had been launched as a mobile and xbox 360 game, giving it further access to a new category of gamers, also having more players than ever. But while the popularity of minecraft had hit an all-time high for notch, it would be around the same time that its popularity would go from a blessing to a curse. Yeah things cannot be like that. Sometimes it is what it is, but people still get very upset with like me personally, even though i wasn't even working on it anymore.

I just figured like i don't know. If i want to put up with this anymore, not to explain that by 2014 he was barely working on minecraft anymore, as jens bergensten had taken over as the lead developer following the game's official release in late 2011.. Here was the issue since notch was known to be the original creator of minecraft and was also still the main shareholder of mojang. He was getting the majority of hate for every single negative aspect of the game.

Not to describe this experience. How do you get that mad overall at the blocks? I don't really get that very stressful. It really got to me. I didn't want to work on the project anymore, because it's a sandbox game types of new games and stuff that the stuff i actually get happy from doing.

I don't know i get mad because i don't get the seeds. Okay, the game isn't coated properly. I get bad seeds because my computer is my name on it guys the devs have put a line of code that gives you bad seasoning. It is a known thing, while sitting penthouse apartment, he would impulsively tweet out.

Anyone want to buy my share of mojang. So i can move on with my life getting hate for trying to do. The right thing is not my gig notch explained that the tweet was somewhat of a joke. However, within only a day, he had a 2.5 billion dollar offer from microsoft for his 71 share of mojang not stated, and i thought about it for a while - and i said yeah maybe it's time and that following the sale he plan on working on new prototype Games as that's where his happiness was derived from after deducting taxes and other various expenses from the sale, notch ended up with 1.3 billion in cash, placing him in the top 2 000 richest people in the entire world.

In a final blog post relating to the sale of the game, notch would state that it's not about the money. It's about my sanity. However, it's not exactly like notch was going to sit back and do nothing with his new leaf. That's that's! Like 53 of some holy 53 - oh my god, dude guys - i i guess i don't i don't you know, i'm not saying anything fortune.

Approximately two months after the sale of minecraft notch would set an la property sale record after the purchase of an extravagant 70 million dollar beverly hills, mansion, apparently outbidding the likes of jay-z and beyonce for the home. From this point onwards, notch began to live like a king partying with famous individuals like zed, selena gomez and dylan, francis also beginning to host weekly parties at his new 23 000 square foot mansion. He does have this crazy parties like every friday. He should at least be self-aware of what he's doing he's known.

I mean people know him in l.a in the partying scene, as the crazy beverly hills party guy notch was quite literally living the 16 year old, fantasy lifestyle, a mansion more than a billion dollars cash in the bank, accompanied by a completely free schedule. What many would consider to be the ultimate life, however? Unsurprisingly, it wouldn't be long before notch would reveal the truth behind how depressing such a life truly is. Over the weekend, the man behind minecraft the online game broadcast his stress on twitter in a string of melancholy, tweets marcus person wanted the world to know that it's just really hard being a billionaire on the 29th of august 2015.. If people say 70 million is the life of the house yeah, i get it, but most people's like net worth is like what is it like? 60, 80 in a home that would have been like 700 ml, which is like that's one tenth of that approximately one year after selling the game hanging out in ibaza, with a bunch of friends and partying, with famous people able to do whatever i want and i've.

Never felt more isolated. This tweet seemed to be a catalyst for releasing a bunch of notches bottled up emotion, as he would then tweet out the problem with getting everything. Is you run out of reasons to keep trying and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance in sweden, i will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do watching my reflection in the mirror when we sold the company, the Biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now. Not only did these tweets refer to how lonely notch had become, but one tweet referenced, his marriage that had ended in divorce.

Another element of what you might call notre's tragic life. I found a great girl but she's afraid of me and my lifestyle and went with a normal person. Instead, on the 13th of august 2011, notch married fellow programmer elon zetastrand, the sister of christopher zetastrand, who created some of the popular artwork, seen around minecraft notch and elon, had a daughter together. However, by july 2012, only 11 months into their marriage, marcus and aylin had filed for divorce on the 15th of august 2012, one year and two days after getting married notch would tweet out.

As of today. I am single mixed emotions. It's hard to figure out exactly what to make of both notch's tweet and his short marriage, but it seemed to reveal that notch wasn't very good at handling adversity. He sold a 2.5 billion dollar game just because he was tired of being attacked on twitter, and perhaps this is a bit of a low blow, but he couldn't even stick it out in a marriage for more than 12 months.

Okay further example: i think both these okay. Both these statements are very odd. Okay, he even said the story behind why he sold it and he says it's not a twitter guys, guys the game. The game is fun and needs love.

He doesn't have the love of the game anymore because of various reasons, he sells the game for people who have love for the game, who can give back the love to the game, to other people who want to experience that joy? What about it? What about it? This is a bit of a low blow, but he couldn't even stick it out in a marriage for more than 12 months. I'll, give further examples later of why this is important, but for now it's just an interesting thing to consider. Following the previously mentioned, twitter rant about feeling isolated and lonely notch laid relatively low in the media, continuing to program small indie games while hosting his extravagant yet lonely parties at his la mansion. However, in 2017 mainstream media once again this time for his political opinions, mr minecraft not himself has descended from the heavens to give us his beautiful opinion.

In the beginning, not just political tweets were somewhat mild in flavor and on the 13th of june 2017 he would tweet out. Most people who proclaim to be feminist online these days are overtly sexist against men. Now obviously, this tweet received backlash because well i mean it's twitter need i say anymore, but politics aside, you'd, think that perhaps the backlash from this tweet would have prompted notch to avoid controversial topics. However, within two weeks of this initial tweet, he would turn up the heat, with some slightly more controversial tweets if you're against the concept of heterosexual pride day, you're a complete and deserved to be shot accompanied by it's okay to be white and privileged is a made-up Metric used to silence and repress, we are all different, and that is okay.

We listen to individuals and help each other based on individual strengths and needs. We do not generalize based on skin color bigot. These tweets would prompt replies such as wow. I thought you're a cool person with interesting things to say what a disappointment: it's not okay, to couch your racism in statements like it's; okay, to be white; it's not okay to post, seemingly innocuous statements in an attempt to rile people up.

So you can have your ego flattered. I've said it before marcus. Your problem is that you became successful. Notch had basically gotten his life into a position where he could say, wait.

Chad. We saw this house on the video. No, we saw it at this house underneath the video it has, the the spinny thing and the sculpture and whatnot whatever he wanted. At the end of the day, he had sold minecraft had billions of dollars and was always going to be remembered as minecraft's creator right.

Well, microsoft had a different idea in march 2019, following the deterioration of notch's public image, microsoft would remove the home page splashes referencing, notch specifically made by notch the work of notch and 110813, the date on which notch had been married. Now the reasoning for this seemed somewhat obvious: youtuber ibx toycat created a video on the topic. Titled minecraft removes all references to notch, stating that microsoft had now owned the game. Yeah.

That's. Why that's? Why? Because i feel like in the contracts you could put uh, you can't for any reason remove this or that right with the notches, or have it ever since that it's been roughly six years now, since we've had notch working on any front line, part of the game And also, it means, interestingly, as of this year, would have had the game be in microsoft's hands longer than it was ever in notch's hands himself, meaning that the work of notch comment wasn't as relevant anymore. However, the removal of notch from the game was also, without a doubt, a result of his strong political opinions broadcasted to his twitter feed. Big companies, don't like controversy and notch is not just a little bit of controversy.

He's a lot of controversy on a whole bunch of different levels. Perhaps another reason microsoft had done. This was because only one day prior to his removal, someone tweeted it notch asking not. What do you think the golden year of minecraft was to which he would respond? 2019 nah just kidding this year, sucked for it to worried fans.

Remember it's yours, not theirs! You make your own adventures in there and anywhere else. You go. Microsoft's distaste for notch would then resurface, one month later in april 2019, when notch wouldn't be invited to celebrate. Minecraft's 10-year anniversary, the creator of minecraft notch is not allowed to attend this 10-year anniversary party.

Let's see why he is not allowed to attend it in an interview with variety. A spokesperson for microsoft would state his comments and opinions do not reflect those on microsoft or mojang and are not representative of minecraft in a somewhat abstract display of maturity. Notch wouldn't respond to microsoft for this decision and instead decided to stay quiet on the topic. Since this event, notch seems to have matured slightly being a little wiser about what topics he discusses on twitter.

However, there are still many prominent elements relating to notch's fairly lonely. Life he's decided not to marry again with his relationship status unknown. He assumably still resides in his 23 000 square. Foot la merchant solo and it'd be hard to see a shift in the opinion of human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance when his net worth is increased by five yeah, but guys guys, i'm like 1.5 bill.

You guys, i'm sure, you guys guys guys guys, i i could go on this parties for sure, though tweet in a bizarre kind of way, not just life became exactly like the very first version of minecraft. There were no mobs, no love and no danger yeah guys. I just kind of do whatever well, the lack of challenge provides complete freedom and safety. It also made the game kind of boring.

The game only blew up and became popular when a creeper had the potential to blow up your house, or you could lose your diamonds that you spent so long finding. Simply because you weren't careful and decided to dig straight down. The challenge is: what made the game worth playing, as is the case with many aspects of daily life. Notch stated that the reason he sold minecraft was because he was tired of being blamed for things that weren't his fault, but in a weird way, this was the challenge sustaining him.

When he sold minecraft, he had no game to fix no people to deal with. No one telling him what to do and his ultimate problem became his eventual lack of problems, a billion dollars and nothing to do is minecraft classic all over again. There's no challenge. It's an extravagant dirt house without the potential for a creeper to come and blow it up, it's having a portal to the nether while playing in peaceful mode, it's playing skyblock.

If the chess were to already guys, i had to say it. I guess it's like the chance of robbing a bank in rp with no police to chase you sources ready for you to use. Each situation sounds incredibly awesome in theory, but when played out in reality, you're bored after 10 minutes. This was best highlighted in notches tweets dating the problem with getting everything.

Is you run out of reasons to keep trying? The challenge is, what makes a game worth playing and a life worth living, and it seems as though notch discovered this the hard way after renouncing, all of the difficult aspects in his life exchange, for what he assumed would be the dream life, but, unfortunately, being greeted With loneliness, unfulfillment and despair on the other side of the equation, damn dude man - i want the hard way i want to be a billionaire and then it's just, unfortunately, being greeted with fulfillment and despair on the other side of the equation. Oh, that's not funny! That was funny no, if you're a first person shooter. Oh you.