True but those are indies. An Activision, EA, or Ubisoft would have shoved that puppy right out into the cold as soon as they saw that the profits had peaked, cut off all but cursory support for the core product and then either moved on to attempt to reproduce the same success in exactly the same model with Minecraft 2 or peddled future updates and content as a series of overpriced DLC. Possibly both at the same time.

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Nothing about this guy implies that he has any background in business, so the fact that you're ragging on him for being bad at it seems harsh.
Well quite. The question was really not "Is Notch a good businessman" it was specifically "are Mojang getting greedy". The answer seems to me to be "no". Whether he invested his money wisely is irrelevant, I think Notch's intentions as displayed have been pretty ace.

This new service is not exactly money for old rope. He is bringing in a new multilayer service, you're not being charged for Minecraft all over again but possibly being given the option to subscribe to a supplementary integrated service. Everything I have read says that you will be able to continue your current minecraft experience as it stands without this interfering.