Guys i'm fairly sure the mojang team is not opting to design merchandise rather than work on the game. If they are even majorly involved with designing the merchandise it would be a very small group from mojang, certainly not a major part of the team.
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Jonathan joined
hey guys my name is Jonathan, and currently i run a small business designing games(go figure). Our big project right now is something were referring to as "project heilegon" and i'm not quite comfortable adding it at this time. However its coming, wait and see.