Just a few years ago, Notch was a no-name developer working on an Infiniminer clone and yet here were are in 2015 and he's quite the profession, changed the industry and sold his company for $2.5 billion to Microsoft. Since then, Notch has been pretty quiet, buying huge mansions and contenting himself with home programming projects. But he does still take to Twitter occasionally, where he answered a fan's statement about not being a sell out, by stating that he does feel like one at times.
"I kinda feel like I am[a sellout]," he said. "But I still feel like I made the right choice. I guess some things always come at a cost."
Notch famously criticised Oculus VR's sale to Facebook earlier in the year for $2 billion, even claiming to be cancelling an official port of Minecraft for the virtual reality headset. In reality one was never really in the works and he recanted his statement later on, but many thought it was a bit hypocritical of him to smash Oculus, only to sell his company to a similar mega-corporation just a few months later.
Still, Notch seems to be happier now without the stress of trying to recapture the magic Minecraft created and can now focus on his homebrew projects, which is what he's been doing for a long time anyway, having handed off all development of Minecraft to his ex-studio Mojang, several years ago.
"The fun is back!," he said in another tweet. "Programming is annoying and frustrating, but SO MUCH FUN."
"And then when most prototypes are horribly unplayable, nobody judges me :D," he concuded.
