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- detritus0
Can't wait to see what MS do with it.
Just hope they leave a version of the shitty old Java version unspoilt...
- detritus0
Is this Microsoft sticking a very large foot in the future door of VR, whose future is at the moment seemingly owned as it is by Facebook?
in the short-term, a kid-centric phablet-type thing with this preloaded and a world subscription thrown in, then VR as it comes in down the line, means MS suddenly has long-term brand allegiance again.
- jtb260
Can't see this being worth 2.5 Billion to MS. It's certainly valuable, but with none of the creators coming over it's hard for me to imagine them seeing a return on this. It's at the peak of it's popularity.
VR would be a good move for minecraft. I'm just not sure there's 2b in that well.
- CygnusZero40
None of us are running game companies, we dont have any idea how much this is worth, but clearly MS really believes that they can turn this franchise into something huge, and then sure I can see it generating billions over years. Or maybe not. Who the hell knows. Its a business investment they hope will pay off, and if it was just as simple as, there isnt 2 bil to be made in that well, not so sure they would have cut that check.
- How are we better off after reading this post?detritus
- perhaps less posts assuming any of us knows anything about running a 400 billion dollar business?CygnusZero4
- I'll be sure to remember that next time you have a go.detritus
- monospaced0
The general consensus is that Microsoft did this to get into the mobile gaming market. Right now they are struggling to get developers to make games for their mobile platform because there isn't enough demand, and there isn't enough demand because there aren't developers making games. A real pickle.
Microsoft making it available as a premiere app on their phones and integrating it into their overall game strategy (Xbox) is what this is all about.
- futuremongolian0
RIP
- ETM0
They have already said it would be cross-platform and not restricted to their platforms, though I am sure their platforms will have extra benefits.
Speculation (which is all that exists at this point) is that they are looking for beneficial product tie-ins and more importantly having a property that actually develops brand awareness and mind share in younger consumers. Xbox is limiting and this lets them touch markets and marketplaces previously unavailable... PS4 for example...
- and their own mobile platform, for which minecraft has never existedmonospaced
- Yes, in that point you are correct. Though I doubt it would sell many Win phones at this stage.ETM
- Don't tell Microsoft that!monospaced
- ETM0
Thing of the licensing plays. How about cashing in like Lego and having all sorts of Mindcraft flavours with various hot IP. What if they made a line of physical Mindcraft toys like Lego, in partnership with a toy company. Minecraft movies or animated TV show. Maybe a Netflix show.
- Lego already licensed Minecraft and created toys... Boom! Head Exploded!!Knuckleberry
- Licensing has expirations.ETM
- Or they can just reap the existing benefits and renew.ETM
- ETM1
This article also points out:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/12-re…8. Schools love Minecraft. Apple thoroughly kicked Microsoft’s heinie in the education market by offering schools deep discounts starting in the ’80s. Now Google is going after that market aggressively with Google Apps and Chromebooks. Teachers who “get” Minecraft are over the moon about it. It finally gives Microsoft a chance to get its Keds inside the classroom door.
9. Parents also love Minecraft. Once they understand that Minecraft is more about building cool stuff than blowing things up, many parents don’t mind when their kids spend all night on it. Some have set up Minecraft servers for their kids so they can control whom their kids interact with during the game. When’s the last time you heard a parent say they love it when their kids play Halo or Call of Duty?
11. Microsoft has buckets of money to lose. Microsoft currently has about $85 billion in cash reserves, or enough to buy another 34 Minecrafts (or 40 copies of the L.A. Clippers). Even if it’s never a money maker, it’s worth it as an investment in mindshare (not to mention Mineshare).
- ernexbcn1
Notch is having a hard time being a billionaire
- I was reading this earlier. he does actually apologise via twitter to some of his old employees. I dunno. I like notch and wish he'd just keep making wee games.detritus
- I'm going to write to him and ask him to put back online a silly wee tower/ccc game he had on his game page (now http://notch.net/gam… )detritus
- Think of it this way — remember how boring games got back in the old days when you put in Infinite Power cheats?detritus
- Sad to read these. Spoke with him (briefly) on the tunnelbana a couple of times before Minecraft exploded and the big sale. Seemed like a genuinely nice guy.face_melter
- great analogy detrius. It's fun for the first minute then becomes the most boring game ever._niko
- Age of empires was so fun, it took me forever to gather resources, build shit, train armies, and all the while getting decimated by enemies, but you learn and_niko
- adapt, you keep coming back and improving, lose some win some, but keep struggling to succeed. Then I discovered cheat codes for everything and a_niko
- game I was passionately playing for a good year, I lost interest in overnight. no challenge, no fun being a god._niko
- My brother in law shared a story with me of when he spent a whole year at sea as an engineer on a Saudi Prince's super yaught. They traveled the mediterrenian_niko
- and the Caribbean, going from island to island, casino to casino, party to party. Boat would stop at a port, handlers would go to shore and come back with the_niko
- finest call-girls and best drugs money can buy, caviar, champagne, you name it. They had helicopters, jet skis, drove 2 million dollar hypercars and yet_niko
- They were the saddest, most bored people on earth, nothing to live for really they had it all at the snap of a finger, every excess imaginable. They were empty_niko
- DRIFTMONKEY1
timelining myself because detritus and this shit is rad. =)
- uan0
is there something like a private server mode in minecraft where you can make player accounts so they can build stuff together?
how do servers work? how does the game work?never played, total noob, asking in search of a multiuser vr building environment for kids.
- "Minecraft Realms is a subscription to your own personal Minecraft server, where you can easily and safely play online with friends in shared worlds"drgs
- you can also find free minecraft server providers and set up your own... or pay just a few dollars a month.slinky
- https://aternos.org/…slinky
- Realms are servers, run by us, just for you and your friends. Invite an infinite number of friends to join your personal Realm, and play with up to 10 at a timeuan
- optimally I need 25 placesuan
- https://stipe.com.au… get a custom URL too..slappy
- Alternatively, find an anarchy server with neverending world, move away from spawn as far as possible where no one will find you and build
https://oldfag.org/drgs - thank you! I'll check it out next week, qbn knowledge saved me lots of times:-)uan
- sted0
- drgs0
I've spent some time on 2b2t.org lately (oldest anarchy server) -- as a tourist. The spawn area or whatever is left of it is really something
Everything within a radius of 5k blocks looks like this. Some players are teaming up to build highways along the x and y axis, others are trying to destroy it, and they are constantly fighting over this
- Looks stupid afmonospaced
- And I’m a Minecraft fan, even though I haven’t played it in years.monospaced
- Its just the obsidian canopy, to trap all new players
https://map.daporkch…drgs - Outside of it there are highways and water channels which you can travel. There are no trees within a radius of 20k from the centerdrgs
- Ugh fuck thatmonospaced
- Depends. If you are looking for an extra hard challenge, 2b2t is greatdrgs
