Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B

Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by sharpneli on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:30AM (#8318682)

I have a hunch that we'll see a rewrite to C# and no more Linux support.

I'd love to be proven wrong though.

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by rukittenme on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:41AM (#8318762)

I doubt they'll rewrite the original. They'll probably create a Minecraft 2 thats written in C# so they can sell it for $59.99.

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by Thieum22 on Monday September 15, 2014 @10:34AM (#8319105)

You can have C# and multi-platform support : http://www.monogame.net/

And Microsoft is still holding on what will come next after XNA for game development in a managed context on Windows and beyond AFAIK.

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by gagege on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:32AM (#8318698)

If they do, it'll be Minecraft 2 or something.

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by kcbanner on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:44AM (#8318783)

Why?

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by sharpneli on Monday September 15, 2014 @09:53AM (#8318846)

Currently it's Java. WP doesn't support java.

And it's not a big jump from having to make C# version anycase to moving the main development to that port.

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by numo16 on Monday September 15, 2014 @10:24AM (#8319042)

Pretty sure the every version outside of PC is not Java, so there is already an existing minecraft codebase that could potentially be ported to WP (Xbox version seems mostly likely for porting since it will already be using directx for rendering).

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Re:Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B by Mikeb85 on Monday September 15, 2014 @10:12AM (#8318976)

Currently the mobile and console versions are in C++.

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