MineCraft Makes $350,000 a Day
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Don't get too excited - you're being oversold again. "Survival" mode, is about as challenging as surviving your way through 2 year old's birthday party. The monsters are easily avoided, and death poses very little danger (since it's easy to store all your stuff in chests back in your lair) and therefore very little fear. I'm continually amazed by people in their Minecraft videos commenting, "Ooh, I'm scared now" when they hear some creature shuffling about. By the second "night" (~15 minutes of gameplay) you'll have already set up a fort that offers 100% security from things that go bump in the night, and, frankly, you can survive the first night just by elevating yourself on a pillar of sand, if you can't build a hole.Unabletothinkofname said:
The crafting system doesn't promote exploration - there's no real reason to go mining for stuff when you can already build pretty much everything you need with the basic, readily-available resources of wood, stone & coal. Since the deposits of useful material (iron, redstone) are so small and sparsely-distributed, it isn't practical to build the large, fun, automated structures you see (like roller coasters) in Survival mode - it takes much too long to gather the stuff you need.
And the monsters are all pretty dopey & easily avoided. Sure, you can make the game difficult by intentionally endangering yourself, but that's like saying crossing the road is an extreme sport because you choose to do it with your eyes closed during rush hour.
Almost all of these problems are fixable - some with trivial code change.s The game has potential, to be sure, but right now it's barely more than a tech demo, or a virtual LEGO box. Let's hope that all this easy money will be put to good use by Notch.
Yeah I always get that impression, people are like "Meh, its just lego" but I never even knew about the creator until I saw all these huge buildings. And yet for most people its the other way around, they play the free version and don't know about the actual game part of the game.Irridium said:
Surely Paypal are just taking away from the sales there? And that's covered by the price anyway, it's kind of the idea. Currency conversion fees? I've never ran into those where digital transactions are concerned....and I'm not really understanding where you're getting 20% VAT on $350,000. The VAT applies to individual sales...albino boo said:Nope paypal are going to take 2% per transaction + currency conversion fees. The Swedish taxman is going to want 20% vat and then 50% income tax. If had set up company he would only have to pay 28% corporation tax and taken the money out as dividend. Until he gets a proper business setup the only people that going to get rich are accounts and lawyers.Danzaivar said:He's making $350,000 a DAY. Every two weeks he makes enough to live off, comfortably, for the rest of his life.Sennz0r said:
The income tax, however. This bit is slightly confusing. I don't know where you got 50% from. That much doesn't make any sense. Hell, last I heard income tax was approaching 30% and everyone was upset. But does income tax even apply to that? If he's not working for or owning a company...he's neither employed nor self-employed. So where does income tax get involved, if this isn't technically income?
It's worth pointing out that the price people are paying now is a mix of hype and the promise he's made to keep people who paid now updated until launch; he may have trouble securing sales further down the line as a result of this.
Actually, closer to 400,000 copies. Allegedly. Even after taxes and charges, that's an easy $100,000 a day. He's making a mint.Percutio said:
Try reading paypals terms and contions and you will find that charge additional fees for changing from say Dollars to Kroner, the currency of the country were he lives. Changing money from currency to another isn't free just because you can't see as the customer doesn't mean its not there He makes no charge for vat when he makes each sale, therefore he has to PAY THE VAT OUT THE $350,000Thyunda said:
Incomes over 372101 SEK are charged at 50% and incomes 532700 SEK get hit at 55%. 30% is the basic rate of tax not the ONLY rate (not even the US has flat rate tax). Well it isn't a capital gain and seeing the he is not a business entity he going to have to pay as income, that what the taxman will argueThyunda said:
Try reading paypals terms and contions and you will find that charge additional fees for changing from say Dollars to Kroner, the currency of the country were he lives. Changing money from currency to another isn't free just because you can't see as the customer doesn't mean its not there He makes no charge for vat when he makes each sale, therefore he has to PAY THE VAT OUT THE $350,000Thyunda said:
Incomes over 372101 SEK are charged at 50% and incomes 532700 SEK get hit at 55%. 30% is the basic rate of tax not the ONLY rate (not even the US has flat rate tax). Well it isn't a capital gain and seeing the he is not a business entity he going to have to pay as income, that what the taxman will argueThyunda said: