It's final, Microsoft is acquiring the indie powerhouse for 2.5 billion dollars. What's your opinion on the deal?
Poll: What is your opinion of the acquisition of Mojang by Microsoft?
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I understand why they took the money, it's not like Mojang is going to make another that's more successful than Minecraft.
As for myself... I stopped playing Minecraft a while ago so it doesn't really bother me. As for 4J Studios though, I hope they got a cut.
As for myself... I stopped playing Minecraft a while ago so it doesn't really bother me. As for 4J Studios though, I hope they got a cut.
If you're gonna sell out, sell out for billions.
Can't blame 'em to be honest, that's a stupid amount of money.
Can't blame 'em to be honest, that's a stupid amount of money.
It'd be nice if Minecraft development stays the same as it is now, with snapshots and free updates and all that. It'd be nice if the modding community is allowed to keep doing what it's doing so the game stays the cool meta-sandbox game it currently is. I just don't trust Microsoft to keep its dick out of the equation.
Businesses exist to make money, and Mojang have made a fuck-ton of money. Hard to really criticise them for that.
I don't care on ONE condition: it somehow remains possible for me to play Feed the Beast. I don't care how much computer reworking and nethackery I need to do, I just want my tiny, 4-person server to keep running all those mods. If they make a sequel based on microtransactions, great. If they make all new Minecraft updates require purchases, great. If they somehow make it so my computer cannot run Minecraft with mods... There will be Hell to pay.
Do not touch my solar panels.
Do not touch my solar panels.
Brilliant for the guys who founded Mojang, bedroom programmers to billionaires in six years, living the dream.
Dumb as rocks for Microsoft, this is just like EA buying developers at the heights of their powers and then wondering why explosive growth doesn't appear by magic. Minecraft is at the top (or arguably slightly past) of it's sales curve and Mojang has no other massively saleable products (Scrolls is no Minecraft), so how do Microsoft plan to get their billions back?
Making Minecraft 2 as an Xbone exclusive won't do it, nor will shovelling micro transactions into the next two years of mandatory Minecraft updates. The three guys who made Minecraft are leaving too, so there goes their much desired lightning in a bottle.
Microsoft will make no money from Mojang, they will try to leverage cash out of it as quickly as possible to get a return on their investment (use your imagination as to how), the number of people playing Minecraft will tank, Microsoft will have Mojang do nothing but Minecraft, then they will be quietly closed down sometime between now and 2020.
That's what happens when large corporate entities invest massively in the last big thing instead of looking for the next big thing.
Dumb as rocks for Microsoft, this is just like EA buying developers at the heights of their powers and then wondering why explosive growth doesn't appear by magic. Minecraft is at the top (or arguably slightly past) of it's sales curve and Mojang has no other massively saleable products (Scrolls is no Minecraft), so how do Microsoft plan to get their billions back?
Making Minecraft 2 as an Xbone exclusive won't do it, nor will shovelling micro transactions into the next two years of mandatory Minecraft updates. The three guys who made Minecraft are leaving too, so there goes their much desired lightning in a bottle.
Microsoft will make no money from Mojang, they will try to leverage cash out of it as quickly as possible to get a return on their investment (use your imagination as to how), the number of people playing Minecraft will tank, Microsoft will have Mojang do nothing but Minecraft, then they will be quietly closed down sometime between now and 2020.
That's what happens when large corporate entities invest massively in the last big thing instead of looking for the next big thing.
I really don't care. They have only one game and i have no interest in it.
At this point everyone who wanted to buy minecraft has already bought it, i just wonder how Microsoft is gonna milk it to justify their acquisition. I just don't see a way for them to earn back 2,5bil from this.
At this point everyone who wanted to buy minecraft has already bought it, i just wonder how Microsoft is gonna milk it to justify their acquisition. I just don't see a way for them to earn back 2,5bil from this.
Mixed. On one hand it's sad to see THE indie title bought out by a corporate behemoth which will almost certainly milk it to the moon and back. I bought the game way back in alpha and got countless updates and a good year or two of fun out of it, something which is not likely to continue under Microsoft. From Microsoft's side, $2.5bn seems ludicrously high a price to pay for Minecraft, for perspective Disney bought Star Wars for $4bn. Sequels aside, Minecraft itself has more or less peaked and it'll take a lot of time and working the teats for Microsoft to make that back.
On the flip side, I'm slightly hopeful that the deal means that Minecraft will receive some much needed development love and reach it's full potential. I stopped playing a couple of years ago because I got bored with the glacial development pace and found the mods waaaay to painful to deal with (this coming from someone who's regularly modded the snot out of his games for a good 8 years now). Support was also kinda bad, for example I booted it up again after the 1.8 update, and after 15 minutes of the launcher being a jerk and re-downloading the whole thing started a new game and instantly experienced massive block lag... on a PC that can play most everything on max. A Minecraft 2 would be awesome if it started from a clean slate away from that miserable java base, and with a larger development team could include an order of magnitude more features than it has now.
Only time will tell if this is good or bad event.
On the flip side, I'm slightly hopeful that the deal means that Minecraft will receive some much needed development love and reach it's full potential. I stopped playing a couple of years ago because I got bored with the glacial development pace and found the mods waaaay to painful to deal with (this coming from someone who's regularly modded the snot out of his games for a good 8 years now). Support was also kinda bad, for example I booted it up again after the 1.8 update, and after 15 minutes of the launcher being a jerk and re-downloading the whole thing started a new game and instantly experienced massive block lag... on a PC that can play most everything on max. A Minecraft 2 would be awesome if it started from a clean slate away from that miserable java base, and with a larger development team could include an order of magnitude more features than it has now.
Only time will tell if this is good or bad event.
As much as I loved Scrolls, not even Scrolls today is Scrolls from last year. Once Hearthstone came out that community's population sharply fell. Never recovered and it was a steady drop from there. Microsoft literally bought Minecraft for $2.5 billion since there's no way in hell any of the other games' revenue or popularity remotely compare.fix-the-spade said:
It means I'll never buy another Majong game, but good on the devs, they'll never have to work again.
As long as Mojang gets to keep doing what they're doing with the snapshots, good modding community and free updates I don't really care. At the moment, it's mostly the modding community keeping minecraft afloat (I play both FTB and tekkit, FTB moreso), i wonder how Microsoft is going to get their money back, really, about the only way to will be through merchandise.
These are my thoughts... Everybody seems to be saying that Notch is the smartest guy because he is leaving Mojang because of the acquisition, but he hasn't really been that involved in Minecraft for a long time. Notch doesn't really matter in this scenario in my opinion.
Second of all, I really don't see a reason as to why Microsoft decided to buy ONE game for 2.5 Billion dollars. Its been around for awhile now. The only thing I can think of right now, is that they want to make it exclusive to Xbox, but how would that work? Its on just about everything but the TI-85 (or whatever it is).
For me, this really makes zero difference. If it were a company that churns out hit game after hit game, then I could see why, but its just minecraft. Seems to me, that once a company gets eaten by Microsoft, they get re-purposed for niche games (Rare) or they just continue a long stale series (343, Halo)... Obviously just my opinion though...
Second of all, I really don't see a reason as to why Microsoft decided to buy ONE game for 2.5 Billion dollars. Its been around for awhile now. The only thing I can think of right now, is that they want to make it exclusive to Xbox, but how would that work? Its on just about everything but the TI-85 (or whatever it is).
For me, this really makes zero difference. If it were a company that churns out hit game after hit game, then I could see why, but its just minecraft. Seems to me, that once a company gets eaten by Microsoft, they get re-purposed for niche games (Rare) or they just continue a long stale series (343, Halo)... Obviously just my opinion though...