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There is this article about Notch sharing $3M with employees previously - can't imagine there being that many employees, and don't know how equal the sharing was.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-03-02-notch-share...

Which strikes me as pretty awesome, because with that much money you don't really know what to do with it -- except maybe outbid Beyonce for a very very expensive house (which strikes me as excessive and better used elsewhere).

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And if true, it is a nice gesture on the part of Notch. Because none of us outside of Mojang (and likely only a handful within Mojang) know the full story, I wanted to temper my criticism Markus a bit. It's easy to demonize a guy who strikes it rich and moves on to other things.

It will be interesting to see if he has a public Act II, or if he will essentially retire to obscurity.

0x10c [0] was starting to become his public Act II, but he dropped the project because he was no longer interested in it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

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