So this is success? It makes me feel a little sad…
$70m means clean, safe drinking water for 700,000 people. One fifth of the 3.5 million who don’t have even that.
I couldn’t live happily in a house like that - too much excess!
I believe Markus is a good man - what is it about lots of money that makes people go blind?
EDIT: Soz, just checked - 3.5m die each year for want for clean water or sanitation, out of 2.5bn who don’t have any.
Me too! But does it say in the video that he’ll live in it rather than rent?
He has to invest his money in something. Buying a big house isn’t a bad investment, especially if he rents it out. It’s better than blowing cash on a fancy car that just loses money.
The US real estate market hasn’t fully recovered from it’s big slump in the financial crisis, especially in LA, so I think he’s made a good investment:
Some religions say that righteous people should donate 10% of their salary to charity (and Christians say that you should save another 10% for hard times in the future).
I’m sure Markus has given some money to charity, and probably gets hassled to every day, but he has no obligation.
There’s a good chance Notch is giving plenty of money to charity considering his past history of insta-funding kickstarters and doing other indie-related charity before he became super-rich, and absolutely none of you here have any right to tell him what to do with the rest of it.
While I would probably never buy a 70 million dollar house, we don’t have the right to be offended he did. He has 2 billion dollars, 70 million is only a fraction of his net worth. There’s also a very likely chance he bought this house as an investment property, and has no intention on living there. If so, bugger off. He’s just trying to be smart with his money, and yes, a 70 million dollar home you plan to rent out or sit on until the U.S. market recovers is a good investment.
“He has all this money he should save Africa with it!” or some other similar argument is ridiculous, by that definition none of you deserve to have any nice things what so ever, including the PC you’re on right now, you could of spent that money feeding the homeless.
Bottom line; Be a good person, do good things. Give where you can, help where you can. But you shouldn’t feel guilty, or be judged, for living within your means.
Very well said. I couldn’t say it better. You’re the most reasonable person I saw in my short life so far.
Whatever is said here…
all I can say…
@Markus… invite your good ol pals from JGO to a party in your new house 
Grats to him. Sounds like cas is really on the money here aswell.
No money can fill an emotional void.
And the things that you can’t buy with money are very hard to obtain, since there is no strategy to getting them. Unlike with getting rich
tl;dr: what Ray said.
I “love” all the sanctimonious posts here (and here) from people who are quick to swear that they’d never “sell out” (ugh) when they inevitably become rich, all while denying the privilege that they already enjoy.
It’s almost funny: Notch started out as “just a dude” on JGO. Then he became successful and became “the hero” of JGO. And now that many of the old-timers have been replaced by kids (most of which were probably inspired to try Java after learning that Minecraft was made with it), Notch is now “the sell-out” of JGO.
You don’t get to call anybody a sell out until you move out of your parents’ house and have to start paying your own bills. It’s easy to say what you would do with your billion dollars, but most people here swearing that they’d never sell their games are, at best, lying to themselves.
Good for Notch. People speculating about his true level of happiness and whether or not he’s a sell-out or whatever: get back to work making your own games. 
This kind of obnoxious speculation is exactly what drove him away from the spotlight in the first place. It’s a shame that even JGO craps on him now, mostly because kids are jealous and still naive enough to be self-righteous about what they’d do in his shoes.
Now where he sold his company, ‘everybody’ knows that he has money, but honestly, would you like to have THAT much money?
Allthough it sounds like from a movie, IMHO, with big wealth, comes big responsibility.
I think of him (of what I have seen and heard), to really start supporting other projects, charity and the like, BIG time. I also think of him as a person, that if he gives a lot of money to a certain cause, he won’t brag about it. And even if people brag hard about something they do, the effect of giving and helping is still exactly the same.
Even he blows off hundreds of millions, it does not change the fact that he still has a lot of money and can support a huge group of people with it.
I don’t think he gives too much about the damn money, I guess he wants to live his live too, like most of us do.
One more point is, that i have NEVER read ANYTHING, about how hard he must have worked to get to this point.
Have you seen any serious Minecraft clones? No… (it must be one i don’t know of then).
I learned OpenGL(fragments of it) and after some time (1-2 years) i thought, that it is very realistic to programm something like that.
Well, now, a good few years after, I would tell you that making something like minecraft, ALONE, is more work than you would every think. It’s ridiculous how people tend, or even want to forget the fact that he worked his ass off.
Sorry for dragging it on and on, just makes me angry he’s known to sell his game, get rich… and thats all people talk about.
Remember, he worked his ass off :P, i feel deep respect for Markus, and amongst others, made me use LWJGL and not go the C++ only route ^^
Just saying.