On this day 10 years ago, Microsoft acquired #Minecraft developer Mojang for US$2.5 billion.
https://minecraft.wiki/w/Mojang_Studios#History

In a blog post announcing the purchase, Owen Jones wrote: “Everything is going to be OK. <3”
http://web.archive.org/web/20140915131835/https://mojang.com/2014/09/yes-were-being-bought-by-microsoft/

Ten years later, Mojang now has been part of Microsoft almost twice as long as it has been independent.

It’s interesting to look back at the original announcement video from Xbox as well:
https://youtu.be/lXNWchwDiG8

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  • TachyonTele
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    4 days ago

    The point is Minecraft is far from the only game that gets free updates.

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        4 days ago

        It would be cool to have a big ass list of games that do that though. Maybe wikipedia has one, or some steam forum guide. That would be a lot of work.