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[kaian-a-coel]

At $15 apiece, microsoft would need to multiply minecraft playerbase by a little bit more than three.
Good luck selling those ~120 million copies.

[aristabulus]

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Bloomberg reported this too, roughly at the same time as WSJ.

No, Bloomberg was a day after, as is stated when they cite/link the WSJ article.  (in the middle paragraph saying no comments were made when solicited)

The digging folks have done in Notch's tweets shows the faintest shred of plausibility to the idea.  However, until an official announcement is made (or a refutation), those tweets don't mean the deal is actually going down.  People say all sorts of shit on Twitter all the time.

[Putnam]

At $15 apiece, microsoft would need to multiply minecraft playerbase by a little bit more than three.
Good luck selling those ~120 million copies.

Asssuming that the only way to get revenue from Minecraft is through game sales, just like Pokemon.

wait shit

Seriously, not an exaggeration: Minecraft is bigger than Pokemon ever was. Someone in a good enough marketing mindset can make a fortune from toys and other things. Perhaps they could sell professionally-made adventure maps on the Xbox One as DLC, with themed blocks coming with them. Lots of options that aren't just "sell more copies".

[kaian-a-coel]

I don't see microsoft making a billion dollars in legos and t-shirts.
Even if they manage to double mojang's net income it'll take them a decade to turn a profit.

And I very much doubt that minecraft is "bigger than pokemon ever was". Pokemon is much older, sold more copies overall, left a bigger imprint on the collective consciousness, have more derived products, and several films, animated series and even P&P RPGs.

[Aklyon]

Pokemon has at least as many movies as there are Final Fantasy games, last I'd checked. While I don't know of the quality of the more recent ones than Movie 2000, I'd say thats a bit more of an impact than minecraft.

[sluissa]

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Bloomberg reported this too, roughly at the same time as WSJ.

No, Bloomberg was a day after, as is stated when they cite/link the WSJ article.  (in the middle paragraph saying no comments were made when solicited)

The digging folks have done in Notch's tweets shows the faintest shred of plausibility to the idea.  However, until an official announcement is made (or a refutation), those tweets don't mean the deal is actually going down.  People say all sorts of shit on Twitter all the time.

I'll say that the silence coming out of Mojang/Notch says a lot as well. If this were really just someone trying to stir up something it wouldn't take all that long to hear a refutation. Only way I can think of this not being a real thing at the moment is if there WERE talks about it in the past which fell apart, but some sort of non-disclosure still exists between the two companies which makes it hard to say anything to confirm or deny.

[Putnam]

Pokemon has at least as many movies as there are Final Fantasy games, last I'd checked. While I don't know of the quality of the more recent ones than Movie 2000, I'd say thats a bit more of an impact than minecraft.

That's because The Pokemon Company has actually put effort into making Pokemon a gigantic multimedia franchise. I'm trying to say that Minecraft--on games sales alone, considering only individual generations (as combining them all is obviously going to have quite a few overlap sales)--is bigger than Pokemon, and if that popularity were to be exploited it could make a far bigger franchise.

[Orange Wizard]

Honestly, I think Google would do better owning Minecraft than Microsoft. At least Google tries to look nice and friendly.

Yes, but google would implement shitty useless 'updates' that make it more and more obtuse as time goes on.

e opens up the screen that lets you choose between inventory and main menu.

Inventory lets you pick between wood-related blocks, stone-related blocks etc.
Then you select the block you want out of those categories.
Then you go back through the menus and put it in the crafting square.
Then you go through the menus to get the rest of the stuff.
Then you get the tool.
Then you go through the menus to equip it.
Then you start starving.
Then by the time you grab the porkchop, you've died of starvation.

And Microsoft wouldn't do that?

[Chiefwaffles]

If a big company like Google or Microsoft bought Mojang, chances are we wouldn't see any real differences in the gameplay other than "connect your Minecraft account with your Microsoft account!!!!!" and you would just see more 'big picture' type things such as Minecraft being removed from the PS4, a push in merchandise, free copy of MC with Windows 8, MC on Microsoft's store/whatever it's called, etc.

[Jack_Bread]

It's funny how people are getting so worked up about this. Like if Microsoft buys this, they're going to throw out all the original developers and install new ones with a different vision that gets orders from higher-ups with no knowledge of game design. I highly doubt they'd do anything stupid to Minecraft aside from making you sign in through their own game service. I could be wrong, but we just have to wait and see where they're going with this.

[MarcAFK]

Yes but pokemon is adorable, and minecraft has no pikachu, that is all.

[Putnam]

Yes but pokemon is adorable, and minecraft has no pikachu, that is all.

you will see at least one of these wherever children gather

[LordSlowpoke]

Yes but pokemon is adorable, and minecraft has no pikachu, that is all.

you will see at least one of these wherever children gather

this child is a child

it is hardly adorable

[Putnam]

ignore the child

[Vorthon]

Yes but pokemon is adorable, and minecraft has no pikachu, that is all.

It has bunnies. Which are amazingly hard to kill. And keep out of carrot patches.