Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
Minecraft maybe? I would say at the minimum it’s a net neutral but considering how far off the deep end Notch is now I imagine it was a good thing.
I’m not familiar with the detail of that one - was he always a lunatic, or did that come with the money following the buyout?
They’ve made some pretty awful changes to the game since. That being said, I bet minecraft would have fizzled out if microsoft didn’t purchase them. They’re still pumping out regular updates and its popularity is huge. I’d definitely consider the acquisition an overall win.
The game has overall become way too easy. 1.14 villagers completely broke gameplay making trading and building iron farms way too boring. The pre-1.14 mechanics were way more balanced and fun. Raid farms are just way too powerful especially with the nerf to natural spawning that 1.18 brought making witch farms basically unusable. Loads of features like that which just made things too easy. It feels like you’re rewarded too much for very little effort.
Chat reports and microsoft migration are also really controversial, of course.
Not to say that they haven’t made lots of positive changes but that’s my main gripe with the development over the past few years.
The company I work for got bought out and from my perspective things have only improved. From the perspective of the random customer who has the first thing go wrong in half a decade though? Those immediately blame the acquisition.
The only employee replaced was the owner, which I’m not sure that counts. Another one resigned a few months after, because they found a new job.
GitHub started adding new good features after being acquired by Microsoft
I agree that the way that train copilot is very morally iffy, but “without permission” isn’t totally accurate. That type of usage is covered by their ToS.
If you don’t want MS to use your shit, self host a gitlab 🤷🏼♂️
If it was covered before copilot that’s something I actually wasnt aware of but if they added it afterwards it’s not actually a good point because they seem to feed it absolutely everything on the platform.
Minecraft would’ve died under Notch.
Man Notch really turned out to me a mess didn’t he…? 😥
I remember back in like 2012 he was one of my personal “heros”.
He got sucked into Right-wing extremism. Posting racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic things on Twitter. Also got into Qanon I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy
TL;DR: Racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia over Twitter
