Notch earned 101 million USD for 2012 on Minecraft licenses, now slightly confused

The Swedish company Mojang and its founder Markus [Notch] Persona last year sold a lot of licenses for the game Minecraft. Notch took home 640 million crowns , which is about 101 million dollars at the current rate.

In an interview on Reddit, Notch himself admits that he still doesn’t understand where to put such money: “It’s so funny, ” Notch writes. . My hobby is playing computer games and programming does not require large investments. I can eat when I want, go to the movies, for that I do not need to save. I have to set aside for travel and for the purchase of computers and game consoles, but I'm not worried about that. ”

“Now, suddenly, due to the structure of modern society, a fucking cloud of money has fallen on me. I still like to play games and program, and as long as I have the latest hardware and the best consoles, I have nowhere to spend more money except for traveling. Maybe I will eventually get a driver's license, and then I can buy a car, ”says Notch.
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Markus Persson doesn’t know for sure, but assumes part of the money to be set aside for the family, another part for himself, and the rest to spend on “making the world a better place to live.” This is, first of all, charity to help children and to promote the freedoms that Notch considers vital in the coming decades, like those that are protected by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

He is also quite philosophical about the copyright laws that made him unrealistically rich: “Well, on the one hand, I don’t mind having a lot of money. On the other hand, it is slightly strange that I can once create something and then get paid for it again and again and again. If you made a car, you can sell it only once. If you painted the fence, then you, too, will be paid once. But if you wrote a piece of software code that is essentially free to play, then you can receive and receive money all the time. This is probably a strange side effect of property laws created in a world where copying something was NOT free. Although, I'm not sure that you can come up with a better system. ”

Last year, Notch already allocated $ 250,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for the reform of software patents and distributed $ 3 million to employees . Mojang then employed 25 people.