Hell no.

99% of Japanese games suck monkey balls.

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#1 - Did you think anyone would pay what Microsoft did before they paid it?  Neither of us have any idea how it will pan out.  Minecraft may be around for two years or twenty years, it all depends on IP management as to its value in 2037.  Who would have imagined in the 80s that Mario would still be relevant in 2010s?

#2 - I never said it did.  It benefited Notch and possibly Microsoft. It was a business decision, not one done out of charity.

#3 - Possible, but Microsoft as a whole seem to have a philosophy of going for larger bets they deem safer.  They made a push in early 360 days for example with Japanese content such as Lost Odyssey and given they stopped I'm guessing that didn't have the immediate ROI they wanted.  They stick with trusted IPs such as Halo and Forza and they bought Gears.

As a gamer I'm not even arguing with you. I think the Xbox One is their weakest effort in terms of appealing to my taste in games. I want Bloodborne, Nioh, Nier: Automata, Horizon: Zero Dawn as these are great and fresh experiences that have made PlayStation my preferred place to play this generation.  All I was saying was they made business decision they felt wa sin their best interest. Time will tell how it plays out, but I'm not sold in and of itself was a terrible decision or if they didn't do it would have pursued the course of action you suggested. The money may have just sat their accumulating interest instead. Hard to know without talking to people behind the decision.

lol @ “how have gamers benefitted”? You can now play the game with friends and family across pretty much any device sans PlayStation and share worlds. That’s a pretty awesome evolution for the franchise. They’ve also continued to release the game on pretty much every platform. There has been zero negatives and nothing but positives about MS buying Mojang. Remember, they bought Mojang, not Minecraft. So they also get other games they make.

This again? Is this like a yearly statement by MS? At least it cant be a let down as is just interest, unlike "greatest line up in xbox history" wich for 2 years straight was shown to be bulls*t.

I concur.

And that goes for any publisher. EA, Activision... Both renowned for buying, milking and then closing.

I would suggest that you would get more than a 1% return on $2.5 billion .

Am I the only one who doesn't want this to happen?

Microsoft doesn't let their studios have the freedom that Sony and Nintendo does, so whichever one they purchase could end up being another Rare.

There's also rumors that Xbox might bite the dust if it doesn't become profitable soon, so again, any purchased studio could just be boarding a sinking ship.

Xbox is wildly profitable since about halfway though last gen.

I disagree, I'd say 99% of western games suck monkey balls. Plus the main reason I bought a 360 was for the Exclusive Japanese games, I have zero intention of buying a X1 without something Japanese that isn't available elsewhere.

Micrsoft acquiring a studio or franchise is boarding a sinking ship. Xbox profitable or not. This is not even an exaggeration.