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seremtan
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PostPosted: 06-10-2014 09:20 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


SOAPboy wrote:
seremtan wrote:
SOAPboy: a one-stop shop for all your American teen alienation stereotype needs


Except I'm not a teen.


wow, you just walked straight into that one didn't you :olo:
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PostPosted: 06-13-2014 03:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Soap seems like the kind of guy i'd shake my head and laugh at irl.



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PostPosted: 06-14-2014 07:38 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ryoki wrote:
Soap seems like the kind of guy i'd shake my head and laugh at irl.


I doubt it. I'm pretty normal anymore. Beyond my Blazer being a bit ridiculous I blend in quite well. I'm boring anymore.
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PostPosted: 06-14-2014 09:35 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


What the shit did I just read?
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 06-15-2014 02:10 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


what? can you read anymore? i thought his meaning was obviously anymore

(and he is boring anymore)
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PostPosted: 06-15-2014 12:43 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
what? can you read anymore? i thought his meaning was obviously anymore

(and he is boring anymore)



Yeah all those anymores. Duh
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PostPosted: 09-10-2014 04:45 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


http://www.joystiq.com/2014/09/09/repor ... io-mojang/

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Microsoft is in serious discussions to buy Mojang, the independent Swedish studio responsible for Minecraft, in a deal estimated at more than $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. An agreement could be signed this week, the site says.
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 09-10-2014 08:29 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:down:
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PostPosted: 09-10-2014 10:37 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yeah, would be a bit fucked if this actually happened.
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I don't think so, think of all the other IP's MS bought that are still going strong. Turn 10, Bungie etc...

Only casualty I recall was Sierra which sucked cause it stopped production of one of the best console FPS games to ever grace the xbox 360. Shadowrun.
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PostPosted: 09-11-2014 11:57 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Well Notch said he'd leave if it happens...
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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 03:30 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Why not? I'd fucking retire, millionaire for life.
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 03:34 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


well Notch was creeped out by Oculus being bought by Facebook, so why would he think Microsoft is a good deal

ffs you Swedish clowns: stay indie. live the dream
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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 03:41 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Everyone has a price.
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 07:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


^ sage advice from one who has done much business in clubs
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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 12:56 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Shit, i was gonna say something similar.



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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 01:08 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Kracus is so world-weary. he's seen through the facade of hypocrisy to the truth of humanity's rottenness and laughs at our foolish delusions
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PostPosted: 09-12-2014 02:08 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


He's seen some things, man. And some stuff...
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 05:18 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It is done
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014- ... -minecraft
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 05:58 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I was just about to post that
Can't say I blame Notch...
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 07:21 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


from nada to $2.5B

nice payday



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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 08:05 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


microsoft didn't buy mojang, they bought mojang's IP, i.e. minecraft. mojang is expendable - as they may one day find out the hard way

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inb4 minecraft 2 xbone exclusivity...


when you've just spent $2.5bn on an IP you don't fuck it up by closing off the platforms
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 09:15 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


part of the deal was that MC stayed multiplatform.
bear in my mind that they didnt just buy minecraft.exe, but all the merchandise and licensed products as well. and there are (and will be) many.
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 09:35 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


2.5 bill for a bunch of blocks? What a ripoff...
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well right now Notch makes about 250.000 euro a day on the minecraft brand.
let that sink in, a quarter million a day.

the deal won't close until the end of 2014 so for the remaining 15 weeks == 105 days he'll make 26250000 euro, roughly 34 million dollars. provided the sales stay as they are, though likely to go up with the new gen versions coming out.
and then he gets his cut from the 2.5 billion.
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and im just sitting here masturbating.
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 10:33 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Fucking hell :|
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 10:44 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


None of us are jealous at all >:( .
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 12:10 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MKJ wrote:
well right now Notch makes about 250.000 euro a day on the minecraft brand.
let that sink in, a quarter million a day.

the deal won't close until the end of 2014 so for the remaining 15 weeks == 105 days he'll make 26250000 euro, roughly 34 million dollars. provided the sales stay as they are, though likely to go up with the new gen versions coming out.
and then he gets his cut form the 2.5 billion.


bear in mind as well that a sizable chunk of that $2.5bn will probably be shares in M$

now all the new M$ CEO needs to do is prove to shareholders that it was a good deal, especially since Minecraft is nowhere near making $2.5bn (I think it's around $500m thus far)
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 05:17 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Minecraft 2 incoming followed by multiple expansions.
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PostPosted: 09-15-2014 11:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MKJ wrote:
well right now Notch makes about 250.000 euro a day on the minecraft brand.
let that sink in, a quarter million a day.

the deal won't close until the end of 2014 so for the remaining 15 weeks == 105 days he'll make 26250000 euro, roughly 34 million dollars. provided the sales stay as they are, though likely to go up with the new gen versions coming out.
and then he gets his cut form the 2.5 billion.


Fuck me gently :/



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PostPosted: 09-16-2014 03:57 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
MKJ wrote:
well right now Notch makes about 250.000 euro a day on the minecraft brand.
let that sink in, a quarter million a day.

the deal won't close until the end of 2014 so for the remaining 15 weeks == 105 days he'll make 26250000 euro, roughly 34 million dollars. provided the sales stay as they are, though likely to go up with the new gen versions coming out.
and then he gets his cut form the 2.5 billion.


bear in mind as well that a sizable chunk of that $2.5bn will probably be shares in M$

now all the new M$ CEO needs to do is prove to shareholders that it was a good deal, especially since Minecraft is nowhere near making $2.5bn (I think it's around $500m thus far)


Right now Mojang makes about $100 million a year.
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PostPosted: 09-16-2014 08:57 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


only another 20 years to go then!
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PostPosted: 09-16-2014 11:31 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
only another 20 years to go then!


It makes no sense to me
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PostPosted: 09-16-2014 11:47 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


MS will have the clout to push this even further, it's gonna be time before they break even but they got their name amoungst the crowd with a very profitable brand and dedicated fanbase.



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