Microsoft buying 'Minecraft' isn't as crazy as it sounds

Microsoft is close to buying the developers of Minecraft?

The same Minecraft that has sold over 50 million copies, created by the outspoken Markus "Notch" Persson? The same Notch that accused Microsoft of "trying to ruin the PC as an open platform" with Windows 8? Who said he'd "rather have Minecraft not run on Windows 8 at all" than put it in the Windows Store? Who canceled an Oculus Rift version of Minecraft the second the VR startup got swallowed up by Facebook? On what planet would Notch consider allowing such a thing?

This very planet, if reports are to be believed. Indeed, according to Bloomberg, it was Notch that made the initial approach to Microsoft. The deal is said to value Mojang, the Swedish studio behind Minecraft, at...

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