Mojang put a notice on their front page that Microsoft bought the company and Scrolls still being developed is uncertain.

They actually did buy the company and the programmer behind it too.
It's going to be a big failure. There's a lot of things wrong that Microsoft can and will do, and it will be pretty much a flop.

actually, hun, the three masterminds behind the company backed down. Notch never intended the game to get so big and was ill prepared for the responsibility of making a genre defining game. He left to save what was left of his sanity, vowing to drop any project that threatened to become super popular in the future lol
but I agree. Microsoft is likely to wreck this. I mean, they spent a shit ton of money on it and they have to make all that money back PLUS turn a profit? Merch sales are good but theyre not THAT good.....

I know the three masterminds backed down, but a lot of people that worked into the company, and basically the company itself technically, is now owned by Microsoft.

The main thing that worries me is the draconian DRM that Microsoft puts into all of their games interferring with java and basically making them completely unable to play at all. Not only that, but a Minecraft 2 which would probably not be the point of the whole thing, and will be remade for consoles first and then PCs second, which means less complex anything at all and less... Well. Just less.
That's not to mention like a dozen other problems that I could think of if I wasn't coughing my brains out.

One less game coming to Wii U.

I doubt it would have ever gone on to the Wii U, even if Microsoft never bought Mojang.

Yeah, like other games, but I remember someone reporting that Mojang said a Wii U version was never going to happen, and then they corrected themselves and said it's a possibility.

Lets not forget though that the WiiU is a failure of a console anyways...

Eh. It's worth the money at least. A Wii plus apps, Amazon Video and some good new games. HD, and external storage.

Heres hoping they take it off java and dont fuck it up. Might restore my faith in microsoft a bit

lack of java would be nice. java crashes when I look at it sideways and im always told to update java to fix the error. I updated it yesterday! you mean to tell me they produce a new java every 12 hours? dont think so.

Updating if anything makes it worse cause your stacking new, bugged, versions of java on new, bugged, versions of minecraft. I honestly have the best experience playing an update behind everyone with a year old version of java. Im running for my main server 1.6.4 with over 100 mods and Java 7, Update 51. I cant promiss it will work for you better then what you got but I rarely if ever crash.

any older versions of java seem to cause minecraft to error out every 5 minutes. whatever version I have right now is fairly stable so i think ill keep it for now.

Fair enough just giving you what I use :P I havent played anything abotu 1.6.4 but im going to see if all the major mods I like have updated to 1.7.# hopefully to update.

Haha, good one!

Though I'm livid at the news, I understand why Notch let it go. That and I love the Microsoft creeper. XD

#Inb4subcriptionfees

Thats how I feel about it.

They've got subscription fees. That's what Realms is. Microsoft didn't implement that.

Outside of realms.

At least we'll have the old non-drm version if microsoft mess it up. I hope they finish putting slime blocks in at least...

oh. I guess that happened two weeks ago.

Scary stuff yo

I wonder if they will stop developing under java? Minecraft is so easy to play in mac and linux if its on java Dx

Now, I remember something about free updates for life when I bought Minecraft. Or was it Terraria? But, yeah, Microsoft will likely screw this up.

and just like other microsoft products, it explodes when you get near it.