disolitude on 10 September 2014
Not sure if you guys are dumb or just trolling... Microsoft couldn't give shit about minecraft as a game IP and that is not what they paid 2 billion for.
When they want is people who play Minecraft using microsoft accounts, which leads to microsoft services. Minecraft is everywhere, on every platform and once this deal goes through, in order to play it on any console you will need to log in with a microsoft account. Buying minecraft is a gateway for them to get iOS, Android, PS3, PS4 users to create microsoft accounts and utilize other microsoft services.
Facebook paid something like 14 billion for WhatsApp for this exact same reason.
