Minecraft inventor Markus Persson claims he's 'never felt more isolated' since selling his company Mojang AB to Microsoft for £1.5billion.
In a series of a downhearted tweets this morning, the Swede spoke of how he disliked his new-found wealth and felt unchallenged and empty.
He wrote: 'The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.
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Unhappy: Minecraft inventor Markus Persson claims he's 'never felt more isolated' since selling his company Mojang AB to Microsoft for £1.5billion
'Hanging out in Ibiza with a bunch of friends and partying with famous people, able to do whatever I want, and I've never felt more isolated.
'In Sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor.'
Persson has a personal fortune of around £1billion, according to Forbes estimates.
He launched the hit computer game Minecraft in 2009, in which players can build an entire world using retro-looking blocks.
But the 35-year-old said he no longer wanted the ‘responsibility’ of owning such a global success, and sold his development studio Mojang to US giant Microsoft.
Last year he said he wanted to ‘stick to small prototypes and interesting challenges’, adding: ‘I’ve become a symbol.
The high life: Markus 'Notch' Persson, right, at a party at the XS nightclub in Las Vegas. Persson came from the most humble and challenging of beginnings to create the world's most popular videogame
This morning's tweets: The Swedish billionaire said he's 'never felt more isolated' since becoming incredibly wealthy
‘I don’t want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don’t understand, that I don’t want to work on, that keeps coming back to me.
‘I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.’
This morning's tweets went on: 'When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.
'Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.
'I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of a******s that made me sell minecraft again.'
His next tweet, however, appeared slightly more upbeat. He wrote: 'People who made sudden success are telling me this is normal and will pass. That's good to know! I guess I'll take a shower then!'
Mr Persson, who is known to gamers as ‘Notch’, was the majority shareholder of Mojang, controlling 71 per cent of the company according to its annual reports.
He has 2.46million Twitter followers and has become a reluctant celebrity through Minecraft’s success. He said: ‘I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun.
The £1.5bn man: Persson on the cover of Forbes this year. He earnt his fortune selling his stake in the firm that made Minecraft for £1.5bn
More tweets: The billionaire spoke about how his former company's employees all hate him
‘I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits. I can’t be responsible for something this big. It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity.’
Like any 35-year-old who has suddenly found himself being one of the richest people in the world, Persson has spent lavishly and partied extravagantly.
One family friend who spoke to MailOnline in April said they hoped that he won't buckle under the pressures of what such fame and fortune can bring.
Divorced after a year of marriage he has blown hundreds of thousands of pounds in the bars, casinos and nightclubs of Las Vegas. Persson has reportedly spent an eye-watering $180,000 [£112,000] in a single night.
And to celebrate the sale of 10 million 'downloads' of the game he treated the whole staff to a three-day trip of ultimate extravagance to Monte Carlo three years ago.
Whisked away by private jet, employees were driven around in sports cars when they were not drinking champagne and partying aboard a luxury yacht. Staff were also entitled to share in a £2 million bonus pot.
Before Christmas he out-bid pop star couple Jay Z and Beyonce to buy the most expensive mansion in Beverly Hills ever – an eight-bedroom modern-day palace in Los Angeles' most exclusive district - for over £43 million [$70 million].
Hugely successful: He launched the hit computer game Minecraft in 2009, in which players can build an entire world using retro-looking blocks
Short-lived: Notch's marriage to fellow programmer Elin Zettterstrand lasted a little over a year. They have one child, a daughter, together, and he pays £4,000-a-month maintenance for her
It boasts 15 bathrooms, a 16-car garage, an infinity pool, wine cellar and a sweet shop.
Markus Persson also owns two of the priciest apartments in the Swedish capital Stockholm - valued at £3 million and £2 million, respectively – one with arguably the best view of the water-surrounded city.
He said he prefers the First Class cabin of British Airways to travelling by private jet, but this has not prevented him from regular journeys in a Learjet.
He drinks in Stockholm's most fashionable night club, rubbing shoulders with stars including Katy Perry, Prince Harry and Hugh Grant.
He has taken up golf, the sport of rich, successful businessmen, playing at some of the most prestigious courses in the world - but does admit he hasn't got a clue about what he is doing.
Even before he sold his company the computer genius was one of the top tax payers in Sweden, handing over some £8million in his 2012/13 returns.
His new firm Rubberbrain has state-of-the art office space in the heart of Stockholm.
Gettin ghigh: Notch tweeted pictures of his Swedish sniffing tobacco and a bottle of £420 Cristal champagne
New man on the block: Persson outbid Jay Z and Beyonce for the most expensive Beverly Hills home ever
Via - Daily Mail
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