If he was planning on making another open world blocky game like Minecraft, it would have failed, no question. Minecraft is not only an open world game, but a modable one with a huge community. Everything Notch might have been thinking about adding/removing/tweaking about Minecraft would have already been done by some mod.

It would have been pointless.

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Yeah this is X over at Microsoft. Kindly asking, what the actual fuck are you doing? Minecraft 2? You realize you don't own any of those rights anymore. You have pretty much one chance to go back on this or you're sued into oblivion. Regards, Microsoft.

Attention! Thank you for yor attention.

His mom said no. lol

Also, modded Minecraft or that (insert name of Minecraft clone here, ie vintage story or voxelibre) are already doing better things than he could.

Everyone was laughing about the announcement the other day on here. I'm going to choose to believe we did this by hurting his feelings.

Maybe he realized that he bit off more than he could chew and that he's not actually a gaming visionary in the first place, considering that he stumbled upon Minecraft while developing a completely unrelated base-building game, instead. Minecraft was an accidental success, and you can't recreate an accident.

Notch's story is fascinating. I never played Minecraft but all my kids did.