The purchase of Mojang was probably a leftover vestige of the Ballmer/Mattrick era. Who else would pay $2.5 Billion for what is essentially a one trick pony. All that for one IP.
There will never be a new Minecraft or any other game from Mojang. Mojang is a small company, they had to outsource the console ports. Before the takeover they had ~50 employees total. And the takeover wasn't entirley smooth or wanted by employees. Microsoft had to offer employees $300,000 and 2 years salary to get employees to stay and some employees still turned MS down and left.There is really bad blood from the takeover and Mojang is now, like Rare, with not enough talent to make games in any substantial capacity. The remaining crew will probably just be dedicated to making updates for Minecraft.
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