Azzanation said:
I think its pretty evident that Minecraft racks in a good amount of money, its not just the video games but the franchise itself with merchandise etc. No i dont have concrete evidence, i am basically just saying a lump sum of money placed infront of human eyes can be tempting. Valve makes money and Gabe earns his money but i can say Gabe does not take home 100% of the earnings through Steam. He will have expenses. $5b is $5b. I dont reckon he will sell but humans arent perfect either. Thats is a good retirement fund. |
Why would he sell to Microsoft though? Surely Amazon, Google, Apple or even someone like Tencent would be more likely. And I don't know about you guys but I could see it being bought for a hell of a lot more. More like 30BN. It generated 4.4BN in revenue last year and it's growing still. Why would they sell for so little?
Say it makes 1.5BN profit a year. It would only take a company about 3 years to make back their money if they bought it. Not to mention if they actually developed new games like half life 3 profits could be much higher. So yeah if a company like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon or a Google want to buy such a profitable gaming business they are going to have to pay a hell of a lot more then 5BN. We're talking 30-50BN imo.
| Random_Matt said: Gabe has already publicly on more than one occasion said he will never sell to MS. |
All the more reason why Amazon, Google, Disney, Apple or Tencent among others would be more likely then Microsoft. Hell even Sony.
| WolfpackN64 said: Que everyone jumping ship to GitLab. |
Looks like it's already happening.
"there are legitimate concerns that Microsoft will need to address. GitLab, a GitHub competitor, claims it has seen a 10x increase in the amount of developers moving their repositories over to its service, an early sign that there’s some developer unrest."
