10 Video Games That Aged Badly For Surprising Reasons
6. A Wildly Offensive Man Made A Family Game - Minecraft
Minecraft was never supposed to be graphically amazing, it was never designed to be a modular version of Dark Souls, it was never a technological powerhouse and was never designed to be. So what could possibly make it age poorly?
Its creator.
Minecraft has become somewhat of the perfect family game – one safe for kids or grandparents to play, and to even play together. So it is always a huge downer anytime the creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson – better known by his moniker, Notch, comes up in conversation.
Unlike Minecraft, Notch is absolutely not family-friendly.
He has aired such social grievances with the world as calling the pursuit of equal rights for women a 'social disease', calling victims of sexual harassment and assault vulgar slurs, and saying that people who were opposed to 'Straight Pride' “deserve to be shot.”
With regular rants against homosexuality, women, non-white people and transgendered people (basically anyone who isn't a land-owning white male) it's no surprise that Microsoft, which paid his company 2.5 billion dollars for Minecraft, has distanced themselves entirely. Microsoft even refused to invite Notch to the tenth anniversary celebration.