The creator of Minecraft has let loose on Twitter, revealing his depression and calling his colleagues 'assholes'
He’s created one of the most popular video games in the world, then sold it for $2.5 billion. But the creator of Minecraft has revealed just how depressed his success has made him.
Markus Persson, who created the Lego-like video game in 2009, let loose in a series of tweets
highlighting just how empty a life of riches can be.
“The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance,” Persson, also known as ‘Notch’, said at the beginning of his five-tweet rant.
Last September, Persson sold his company Mojang and Minecraft’s intellectual rights to Microsoft for US$2.5 billion (NZ$3.9b). Since then, the programmer has splashed out, buying a US$70 million (NZ$110m) mansion in Los Angeles that he’s used to host pool parties with A-list celebrities.
