Why notch quit

Well this is a weird day pic. For those that don't know: Notch is a Swedish video game developer who created Minecraft , the best-selling game of all time. He also founded the company behind the game, Mojang. About the power that delivers and the toll it takes. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games.

I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting. Quite awhile ago, Persson handed off development of Minecraft to Jens Bergensten. Initially, his plans were to spend his time working on another game, to, as Persson writes, do new things.

This thought seemed to begin to solidify into a desire to leave a few months back after fans attacked him publicly over a change in Minecraft's End User License Agreement EULA — which he writes he knew nothing about — and after watching the " This is Phil Fish " video on YouTube.

I don't want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don't understand, that I don't want to work on, that keeps coming back to me.

I'm not an entrepreneur. I never meant for it to do either. A relatively long time ago, I decided to step down from Minecraft development. Jens was the perfect person to take over leading it, and I wanted to try to do new things.

I was at home with a bad cold a couple of weeks ago when the internet exploded with hate against me over some kind of EULA situation that I had nothing to do with. I was confused. I tweeted this in frustration. As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments.

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