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Mojang is an indie video game developer from Stockholm, in Sweden. It was founded not long ago, in 2009 by Markus "Notch" Persson. With his good friend Jakob Porsér, they realised their plan to start an independent game studio with their focus primarly continuing on Minecraft. In 2011, upon the official release of Minecraft, the company grew to 12 employers and had already started work on another game, Scrolls (yet to be released). By March 2012, Mojang had earned a net income of over 80 million dollars. - Minecraft
On his website Notch explains the reason's behind the sale of Mojang and Minecraft
"I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it’s changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It’s certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting....It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity." - notch.net
He’s decided that he doesn’t want the responsibility of owning a company of such global significance. Over the past few years he’s made attempts to work on smaller projects, but the pressure of owning Minecraft became too much for him to handle. The only option was to sell Mojang. He’ll continue to do cool stuff though. Don’t worry about that.
There are only a handful of potential buyers with the resources to grow Minecraft on a scale that it deserves. We’ve worked closely with Microsoft since 2012, and have been impressed by their continued dedication to our game and its development. We’re confident that Minecraft will continue to grow in an awesome way. - Mojang
Mojang, whose three founders will leave the company, assured fans that "everything is going to be OK". - BBC
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