Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5289656-20130113165500/@comment-4816308-20140529021958

107.206.146.154 wrote: I don't think it's a reference to Minecraft. Minecraft was still an unknown when Skyrim was released. Considering the location, I find the Everest explanation to make more sense. If you look at the official release dates, Minecraft was only released a week after Skyrim. However, the Scrolls controversy, which Mojang and Bethesda were a part of, happened in August of that year. So it might be less of a Minecraft reference and more of a Notch one that just happened to be based on Mojang's most successful game (remember, MC was in few years of paid beta before official 1.0 release).