The Fury said:
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Yeah, I never said it was good stuff (flickr might be the biggest one). But then remember, MS bought Mojang for $2.5billion... which at the time was a company that was making about $90mil a year profit. It will take them over 20 years to get that back from the company if they stay around that sum. So not really sure how MS value things.Think about it like this. You just said Minecraft makes about $90,000,000 a year in profit. Microsoft has, literally, billions of dollars just sitting in a bank. You take that 2.5 billion dollars they spent buying Mojang. If they left that money just sitting in a bank, it would have generated about $25,000,000 for them in interest. So when you say Minecraft makes around $90,000,000 in profit per year, well just do the math.
$90,000,000 from Minecraft, versus $25,000,000 from interest. It seems like an instant win for ANY company to make that deal.
This is what companies mean when they are talking about making money right away or breaking even on these huge deals. No, they aren't close to making back that 2.5 billion yet, but they are generating more profit because of the deal.
