September 15th, 2014 I don’t see myself as a real game developer. Imake games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program,but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and Idon’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, andpeople 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 publicspotlight is interesting. A relatively long time ago, I decided to stepdown from Minecraft development. Jens was the perfect person to take overleading it, and I wanted to try to do new things. At first, I failed by tryingto make something big again, but since I decided to just stick to smallprototypes and interesting challenges, I’ve had so much fun with work. I wasn’texactly sure how I fit into Mojang where people did actual work, but sincepeople said I was important for the culture, I stayed. I was at home with abad cold a couple of weeks ago when the internet exploded with hate against meover some kind of EULA situation that I had nothing to do with. I was confused.I didn’t understand. I tweeted this infrustration. Later on, I watched the This is Phil Fish videoon YouTube and started to realize I didn’t have the connection to my fans Ithought I had. I’ve become a symbol. I don’t want to be a symbol, responsiblefor something huge that I don’t understand, that I don’t want to work on, thatkeeps coming back to me. I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdycomputer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter. As soon as this deal is finalized, I willleave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If Iever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probablyabandon it immediately. Considering the public image of me already isa bit skewed, I don’t expect to get away from negative comments by doing this,but at least now I won’t feel a responsibility to read them. I’m aware this goes against a lot of what I’vesaid in public. I have no good response to that. I’m also aware a lot of youwere using me as a symbol of some perceived struggle. I’m not. I’m aperson, and I’m right there struggling with you. I love you. All of you. Thank you for turningMinecraft into what it has become, but there are too many of you, and I can’tbe responsible for something this big. In one sense, it belongs to Microsoftnow. In a much bigger sense, it’s belonged to all of you for a long time, andthat will never change. It’s not about the money.It’s aboutmy sanity.
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