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He just tweeted some worrying stuff

Markus Persson ‏@notch 26 Min.Vor 26 Minuten

The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.

Markus Persson ‏@notch 24 Min.Vor 24 Minuten

Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.

Markus Persson ‏@notch 23 Min.Vor 23 Minuten

In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.

Markus Persson ‏@notch 22 Min.Vor 22 Minuten

When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.

Markus Persson ‏@notch 21 Min.Vor 21 Minuten

Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.

Markus Persson ‏@notch 16 Min.Vor 16 Minuten

I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again.

Markus Persson @notch

People who made sudden success are telling me this is normal and will pass. That's good to know! I guess I'll take a shower then!

That one here was a talk with a former co worker:

Markus Persson @notch

@pgeuder like three people thanked me for the two million kronor after tax bonus i gave from my own private money. Others said I was cheap.

Patrick (パトリッ&#12463 @pgeuder

@notch That seem way too few of us to me. I mostly hated you for leaving, but that was only during the shock, you know that <3

Markus Persson
@notch

@pgeuder i do not know that, nobody reached out and said it was just initial shock. So fuck all of you. Fuck you so hard.

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I hope he will be fine.

 

[Guymelef]

 

[Nokterian]

Mo money, Mo problems

 

[Acquiescence]

I am greatly concerned for the mental wellbeing of anyone who throws away hundreds of thousands of dollars on roulette tables every night, yes.

 

[MasterForm]

Mo money, Mo problems

Essentially this, unfortunately. Seems he's heading into a depressive spiral.

 

[Beelzebufo]

Uh oh. That one tweet about the girl and the normal guy is giving me Harry Potter fan club guy vibes.

 

[SJRB]

Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.

O for fucks sake.

 

[StayDead]

Just shows that money really doesn't buy you happiness.With Minecraft, it was only when Jebb got involved that the game got interesting for me in a serious way so I always held some content towards Notch for benefitting off of other peoples hard work, but I guess that's just the nature of life.

I mean I don't really care what Notch gets up to in his private time, but he as well as anyone else deserves happiness and hopefully he can find it soon. It seems if anything he regrets taking that huge payoff from Microsoft as all it's done has isolated him from his family and friends, so maybe he might donate it all to charity and start again or something.

 

[Srey Plaughtered]

Just go make more games and get yourself out of depression Notch.

 

[erpg]

I'll never understand why he got a mansion in a city of famous people. Why is he trying to join that clique instead of hanging out with people like himself?

 

[barit]

Poor me. I'm so rich I don't know what to do with my life. lol

 

[KJRS_1993]

Just go make more games and get yourself out of depression Notch.

Ehhh it doesn't really work like that dude.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I'll never understand why he got a mansion in a city of famous people. Why is he trying to join that clique instead of hanging out with people like himself?

Maybe he likes the phonies.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

I'll take a couple million off your hands Notch, my pal

 

[Drazgul]

I'll never understand why he got a mansion in a city of famous people. Why is he trying to join that clique instead of hanging out with people like himself?

Associate with the filthy plebs? Don't be silly now.

 

[Vinterbird]

I can't have been easy to have the entirety of Mojang suddenly hate you, after having worked closely with them for years. Probably doesn't reflect well within the Swedish (and Nordic) development community.

 

[StrongBlackVine]

Just shows that money really doesn't buy you happiness.With Minecraft, it was only when Jebb got involved that the game got interesting for me in a serious way so I always held some content towards Notch for benefitting off of other peoples hard work, but I guess that's just the nature of life.

I mean I don't really care what Notch gets up to in his private time, but he as well as anyone else deserves happiness and hopefully he can find it soon. It seems if anything he regrets taking that huge payoff from Microsoft as all it's done has isolated him from his family and friends, so maybe he might donate it all to charity and start again or something.

LOL. He would be the biggest fool in the history of mankind if he did that. No one that has money like that ever would willingly give it all up.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Having too much money seems like a problem that's easy to solve. Give it all to me.

 

[Trickster]

I'll take the money off his hands if he wants me to

 

[Shuggananas]

No.

 

[Nokterian]

Essentially this, unfortunately. Seems he's heading into a depressive spiral.

It is pretty simple really i do not have much money but i am more than happy with my life to be honest. And seeing this melt down from notch? I thought it would happen sooner or later and he thought his employees would be happy after he left? Off course not you're leaving everyone behind with no direction.

 

[Messypandas]

That lifestyle is probably a major system shock. Everyone who used to be friends resents you for your money, all your new friends only love you for access into that lifestyle. I actually hope he finds peace with it.

 

[Jotamide]

The grass is always greener on the other side.

 

[Goldfishking]

Seems like he needs a hobby.

 

[benny_a]

He can't just give the money away. People won't forget that he got billions.

Even if he only drew a regular Swedish salary he would still forever be known as the billionaire and would be treated that way.

You can't undo the past. I wish him luck with sorting out his life.

 

[The M.O.B]

I'll never understand why he got a mansion in a city of famous people. Why is he trying to join that clique instead of hanging out with people like himself?

There isn't anyone like him. His friends are busy working their 9-5 job and going home to their families after work in their small house.

 

[Lashley]

EDIT: He should really seek professional help instead of consulting Twitter.

 

[hobblygobbly]

Has he ever shown interest in starting (or being part of) an indie start up and pumping out some interesting games? He's got the capital and collaborating with people for experimenting can lead to interesting things.

The idea he had for that space game he was working on (0x10c) was super interesting to me as a programmer myself with the fantasy computer DCPU-16. I still want to see that happen. It was so much fun delving into the community at the time with the specs and writing the emulator based off the specs, etc.

 

[Ensirius]

I always thought of Notch as a weak minded person.
Really hope he pulls through.

 

[Srey Plaughtered]

Ehhh it doesn't really work like that dude.

Well if he really wants out of this depression then he'll have to find something else to focus on, what better than what he was good at before, making games?

 

[ec0ec0]

I'll take a couple million off your hands Notch, my pal

.

 

[Cirdan]

"Never feel sorry for a man who owns a plane"

Really though. He just needs a new project or something.

 

[chaobreaker]

Wait, why does his former employees hate him?

I can't have been easy to have the entirety of Mojang suddenly hate you, after having worked closely with them for years. Probably doesn't reflect well within the Swedish (and Nordic) development community.

What the fuck? Where did this all come from? Does this have to do with the sale of Minecraft?

 

[Hip Hop]

That lifestyle is probably a major system shock. Everyone who used to be friends resents you for your money, all your new friends only love you for access into that lifestyle. I actually hope he finds peace with it.

Pretty much how I feel about the situation.

 

[Kalor]

He's had some really interesting game ideas in the past so it would be cool to see him try to develop them into something. It sounds like he doesn't do much programming anymore so it might help distract him.

Hopefully he's able to find some peace at some point.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

He can't just give the money away. People won't forget that he got billions.

Even if he only drew a regular Swedish salary he would still forever be known as the billionaire and would be treated that way.

You can't undo the past. I wish him luck with sorting out his life.

He can pull a Bill Gates and make a massive contribution towards something that legitimately improves the world, and in the process leaves him just ordinary rich rather than filthy stinking

 

[TheKeyPit]

Donate all the money. Start from scratch. Problem solved.

 

[SgtCobra]

With that much money he should be able to do something about it..

 

[patapuf]

Oh fuck off. Talk about a first world problem.

It obviously is, but he is still unhappy.

I find this notion weird that rich people can't be unhappy because they can afford everything. Especially with all the tabloids and such detailing us everyday what train wrecks so many of them become.

It's almost as if you need more than money to be happy. Not that i pity Notch, he'll be fine.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Everyone has problems. I wager most people encounter feelings of loneliness or emptiness at some point in their life. To tell you the truth, there's not much to see here. Just a regular human venting out on social media, hoping to get attention, just like a lot of people have done before him. The only difference between this person and most other people is that this person is somewhat famous. Why worry for him when we could worry for millions and millions of people with bigger problems?

 

[Hasney]

Hopefully all of you being cocks get a better reaction if you ever start suffering from depression.

 

[Sojgat]

Hanging out in ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.

 

[Numb]

Amazing.
And no.

 

[HariKari]

It obviously is, but he is still unhappy.

I find this notion weird that rich people can't be unhappy because they can afford everything. Especially with all the tabloids and such detailing us everyday what train wrecks so many of them become.

It's almost as you need more than money to be happy. Not that i pity Notch, he'll be fine.

Above 100k, you don't get any happier.

The amount of money Notch has can distract him for awhile, but it basically throws him into total isolation. Everything changes.

 

[bobawesome]

Poor guy.

 

[nib95]

He needs to keep himself occupied with a new project perhaps. But honestly if it was me and I was as fortunate as him financially, I'd do lots of humanitarian and charity work. And no I don't mean just giving my money away, but actually going out there and doing front line work. Setting up schools, villages, orphanages, shelters, wells, water filtration systems, re building infrastructure and everything else, around the world. How blessed would it be to have so much money that you could spend so much of your time helping others, and never having to worry about your own bills, expenses and financial commitments? He can still squeeze in plenty of time for his hobbies and social life, but at least it'd be a more worthwhile, impactful and lasting way to spend your time.

 

[Kydd BlaZe]

Uh oh. That one tweet about the girl and the normal guy is giving me Harry Potter fan club guy vibes.

What's this about?

 

[maniac-kun]

Sounds like he should start a new company to be busy.

There isn't anyone like him. His friends are busy working their 9-5 job and going home to their families after work in their small house.

Dontate your friends a few million $ and live next door?

 

[daninthemix]

Yeah I can imagine this being a problem - all your human interactions change, because either you suspect everyone is only interested in you because of your money, or they actually are.

 

[lostcauz]

I know he gave bonuses from his own pockets but that equates to £153,600 to each person, really, that is being cheap.