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
Terraia and No Man’s Sky certainly leap to mind.
Stardew Valley… i’m sure there’s more
Space Engineers.
Factorio
Well factorio doesn’t seem to be getting free updates anymore, that was mostly only during early access. They’ve decided to do paid DLC now instead.
That’s not true. Wube is working of a big Factorio 2.0 style update. They push updated on what they’re doing every other Friday, and they all go in detail and are very interesting.
Factorio 2.0 will shine brighter than ever before. Also, there is murmurs of possibly open sourcing faction later in the lifecycle.
The point is Minecraft is far from the only game that gets free updates.
Yeah definitely
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.
Didn’t space engineers get abandoned? Or was that the medieval one
The medieval one. Space Engineers is still getting free quarterly up dates.