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Intel&Sebastian posted:Being that popular and not figuring out how to make any money basically means that Minecraft is the Twitter of videogames and that sounds about right. In 2014, pre-Microsoft, Mojang reported in financial documents that Minecraft brought in approximately 330 million dollars in revenue and 128 million dollars in profit over the previous year according to https://www.wsj.com/articles/minecraft-makers-profit-soars-1395140019. This is before realms and before the in-game marketplace. I very highly doubt that Minecraft is not making money.
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I mean I guess that makes sense, it's not like a studio has ever had problems making money after Microsoft acquired them 
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Jul 17, 2020 17:13
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Only thing more popular than Minecraft is Roblox. I don't know why you guys think Minecraft is doing bad.
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I've said multiple times I'm sure it's doing great. It's just absolutely not doing 2/3rds of a Lucasfilm great.
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Jul 17, 2020 17:28
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im pretty sure the math for mojang vs lucasfilm is entirely different because they could buy mojang with money sitting offshore and didnt have to bring it to the us and incur a bunch of taxes
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Jul 17, 2020 17:58
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drat turns out im the smart thread poster https://www.ibtimes.com/minecraft-nokia-skype-how-microsoft-buys-overseas-companies-avoid-us-taxes-1693869
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Jul 17, 2020 18:00
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Lucasfilm was like the bargain of the century. If you want crazy corporate purchases look at the money AT&T have been splurging out to buy media companies. They dropped $49 billion to buy DirecTV then followed that up with $85 billion to buy Time Warner.
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Super No Vacancy posted:smart thread poster What is a 21st century cryptid, Alex?
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American McGay posted:Fortnite is about 80m active players a month, Minecraft is 125m. Not sure about PUBG because it's PUBG. pubg active monthly players is like, 200m+. the only thing that gets more playtime is the chinese cs clone crossfire. both are really popular in asia generally which fortnite and minecraft arent to the same extent.
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Jul 17, 2020 18:21
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Phil Spencer gave an interview to some German publications. Part of the interview talked about Microsoft's support of the Xbox One for the next few years, which was discussed a few pages back. quote:The thing you'll see on the 23rd is we're giving our studios real creative freedom to build the games that they envision. (Transcript is from here and the video can be viewed here.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:35
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On the face of it that's great. No doubt this thread will have a different point of view overall.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:56
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Still willing to bet GTA5 made/makes more money off those 130m than Minecraft does off those 200m
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Jul 17, 2020 21:01
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TheScott2K posted:Still willing to bet GTA5 made/makes more money off those 130m than Minecraft does off those 200m Popularity can be addressed any number of ways but it seems pretty well established that GTAV is the most profitable single title in the history of selling things for entertainment. Which is wild.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:10
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I haven't really played games since my son was born in 2014. If I understand this Project xCloud correctly, come September I will be able to play this giant library of games on most screens (PC, compatible mobile devices) without owning a console for $14.99 / mo (+ the price of a compatible controller)?
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Jul 17, 2020 21:12
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Yes with significant input lag that depends a lot on your connection quality and distance from the servers
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Jul 17, 2020 21:15
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ethanol posted:Yes with significant input lag that depends a lot on your connection quality Yeah, but I can live with that. I really just want to be able to play FO: New Vegas on the couch while my wife watches Bravo.
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TheScott2K posted:Still willing to bet GTA5 made/makes more money off those 130m than Minecraft does off those 200m Good god who gives a poo poo? Minecraft makes money. Sorry if that is offensive but while they may not have made all of it back (they are probably close if not already there) it wasn’t some terrible buy for them. I’m just hoping xcloud still releases for iOS. If it does I’m definitely setting up a game pass subscription.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:24
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Sock The Great posted:Yeah, but I can live with that. I really just want to be able to play FO: New Vegas on the couch while my wife watches Bravo. Then yes, you might be able to live the gaming fantasy months from now!
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Sock The Great posted:Yeah, but I can live with that. I really just want to be able to play FO: New Vegas on the couch while my wife watches Bravo. There are some caveats. 1. If you are on iOS, it's unclear what the state of the app will be by then. Right now, it's an Apple Testflight app and you can only play Halo 5. The Android app is full-featured and works well even on an old Fire 8 tablet. 2. While Fallout: New Vegas is currently a Game Pass game, it might get removed at any point in the future (with warning). Also, DLC is not included, but you can buy it at a discount. Honestly, if you have good internet it's a totally acceptable way to play. I'm sure there will be a $1 trial month available when this launches.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:27
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Zerot posted:There are some caveats. Thanks for the heads up. We are definitely primarily as iOS household, but I'd be willing to buy a cheap tablet for this purpose. You mentioned it works on a Fire 8; so the expectation is that this will be available in Amazon's App store or did you do this with side loading? I usually get 100 - 120 mbps up and 15 - 20 mbps up. I'm way too old for twitchy, shooter type games now; just want something I can play a few RPG and action games on on that I've missed out on over the last 6+ years.
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Sock The Great posted:Thanks for the heads up. We are definitely primarily as iOS household, but I'd be willing to buy a cheap tablet for this purpose. You mentioned it works on a Fire 8; so the expectation is that this will be available in Amazon's App store or did you do this with side loading? I've sideloaded the Google Play Store onto mine and I'm not sure if it will be available on Amazon's app store. The Xbox and Xbox Game Pass apps appear to be there, so that bodes well if you don't want to do any sideloading.
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TheScott2K posted:Still willing to bet GTA5 made/makes more money off those 130m than Minecraft does off those 200m So? Just because Minecraft isn't pulling GTA5 profit doesn't mean it isn't printing an ungodly amount of money.
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Jul 17, 2020 22:41
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Zerot posted:Phil Spencer gave an interview to some German publications. Part of the interview talked about Microsoft's support of the Xbox One for the next few years, which was discussed a few pages back. this is clearly a walk back of what they previously had stated in no uncertain terms lol "As our content comes out over the next year, two years, all of our games, sort of like PC, will play up and down that family of devices," Booty tells MCV. "We want to make sure that if someone invests in Xbox between now and [Series X] that they feel that they made a good investment and that we're committed to them with content."
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Jul 17, 2020 22:58
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or they mean any projects from now will be free to go next gen only, and the ones already in dev for the first year or two are going to be xbone compatible
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Jul 17, 2020 23:00
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Stux posted:or they mean any projects from now will be free to go next gen only, and the ones already in dev for the first year or two are going to be xbone compatible
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Jul 17, 2020 23:33
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Just beat Shantae and the Seven Sirens. I gotta say that...Rottytops is a really lovely friend. Sky is right, I have no idea why Shantae is friends with her.
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punk rebel ecks posted:So? Just because Minecraft isn't pulling GTA5 profit doesn't mean it isn't printing an ungodly amount of money. $2.5 billion is so much money
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Jul 18, 2020 00:04
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its a very large amount of money. very large indeed. huge you could say.
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would like to see $2.5 billion stacked up in a parking lot to get a good sense of scale
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TheScott2K posted:$2.5 billion is so much money
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Popularity can be addressed any number of ways but it seems pretty well established that GTAV is the most profitable single title in the history of selling things for entertainment. Which is wild. Do you have sources for your claims? Not debating, just interested. I love reading about this poo poo.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-violent-videogame-has-made-more-money-than-any-movie-ever-2018-04-06 And that's from a year ago lol
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Intel&Sebastian posted:https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-violent-videogame-has-made-more-money-than-any-movie-ever-2018-04-06
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I'm in my late 30's a year goes by and I don't even know what the gently caress
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2018 was a century ago
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TheScott2K posted:$2.5 billion is so much money And Minecraft is a very valuable IP. It earns more or less (often more) than $100 million per year on mobile alone. Add in merchandising and spinoffs and it rakes in a lot of cash. punk rebel ecks fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jul 18, 2020 |
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I think its an odd position to hold that a game which sold 150 million copies and has 120 million active monthly users with monthly subscriptions, microtransactions, and merchandising deals out the wazoo could not have made half as much money as a game that sold 120 million copies.
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Barudak posted:I think its an odd position to hold that a game which sold 150 million copies and has 120 million active monthly users with monthly subscriptions, microtransactions, and merchandising deals out the wazoo could not have made half as much money as a game that sold 120 million copies. That Microsoft Magic, baby
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punk rebel ecks posted:And Minecraft is a very valuable IP. lol you cant say often more when linking an article from 2019 saying mobile had its best year ever at $110 mil cmon, people are going to click the link. try harder. the actual article makes it sound more like they hit over $100 million in 2018 and then pushed up a bit more from that in 2019.
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