BuzzFeed - Several gaming industry sources tell BuzzFeed News that the Minecraft creatorâs planned departure following the close of its $2.5 billion sale to Microsoft might actually be a good thing for the future of Mojang within Microsoft. smontgom65/smontgom65 "Thank you for turning Minecraft into what it has become, but there are too many of you, and I can't be responsible for something this big," wrote Markus "Notch" Persson, the game's beloved creator in a blog post following the announcement that Microsoft was buying its parent company Mojang for $2.5 billion. "In one sense, it belongs to Microsoft now. In a much bigger sense, it's belonged to all of you for a long time, and that will never change." Unlike most deals of this nature, which are as much about acqui-hiring the creators of the game as the game itself, Persson will not be joining Microsoft. Instead, following the deal's closing, he will step aside. In doing so, Persson is opting for the clean break instead
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