>have a cult following
>big enough to hold a game convention for you game several times
>merch sales
Would you have sold your golden goose for 2.5 billion dollars?
>have a cult following. >big enough to hold a game convention for you game several times. >merch sales
Yes
>have a cult following
>big enough to hold a game convention for you game several times
oh boy i get to deal with endless 12 year old minecraft spergs, lucky me
I don't know who this is.
He also does not appear to be videogame.
He is the inventor of videogame
His hat is very dignified.
It is also black. A black hat, if you will.
Is Vidyaman also a haxzor?
yes, in fact it is theorized he has even once browsed the infamous hacker website known as "Ganker"
>Would you have sold your golden goose for 2.5 billion dollars
Yeah. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. He's set for life. He can do literally nothing and have absolutely no worries.
Has he ran out of money yet?
Personally, no, probably I wouldn't. And even if I did, it would Not be the way this moron did it, I'd demand 100 mil royalties for it before the sale.
So taking 2.5 billion in cash is moronic just because you didn't tack on 100 mil on royalties???
In Notch's case absolutely. He could've easily demanded that off Microsoft, or at least attempt it.
He literally can't run out of money, moron. He can easily and with no risk gain 6%/year over inflation. It's impossible to spend more than that even if he tried
Maybe?
He probably could've milked the game for just as much had he kept the IP to himself, but getting to cash out and frick off? I don't know what I'd have picked.
If he's smart with his money, which I kind of doubt he is, he can easily turn that in to much much more and live off the interest without ever doing anything again. He's not married and doesn't have kids so I don't know exactly what he plans on doing with it down the line
>Live off the interest
homie are you not paying attention?
I would have sold it and then use the money to create a new and better company and have them make games for me. Notch could've done that a long time ago, but now nobody even cares who he is.
You're a NEET you don't know how to do any of that.
With 2 billion dollars I wouldn't need to know how to do any of that. That's the point. You hire some competent game developers and they make games for you. Notch should've done that when he was still fresh on people's minds, but now it's too late.
>but now it's too late.
He can still do it just because he has lots of money. You can find plenty of competent code and artmonkeys to make a game for you if you have the big bux
WHY DID HE NOT BUY Ganker NOW WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH HIROSHIT
Microsoft would just make a Minecraft clone and advertise it to the point of success without him if he kept it. They wanted the original game's identity but were willing to crush it if need be.
>literal billionaire
>sits at home mad all day
lol yogscast won
>Would you have sold your golden goose for 2.5 billion dollars?
Yes, duh. It's 2.5 Billion dollars. With a 'B'. You're literally set for life, unless you go full-moron and start collecting Russian oligarch-tier yachts.
What I don't understand is why he didn't try making any other games. Or, heck, funding some obscure IP revivals. Something like $10 million is peanuts to him.
Seeing how the other mojang projects at the time were literally a card game i don't think he cares that much about making games
2.5B is an ungodly amount of money. If you are 20 and die at 100, you can spend 85K EVERY SINGLE DAY and still have some money left over.
>Ganker is this bad at maths
I mean he's technically correct as long as his definition of "some money left over" is a billion dollars
Are you both moronic?
>using a calculator
you didn't beat the game
Ironic
>it's true
God damn, outside of buying a nice house in the mountains or near the coast, I can't think of a way to actually burn the money. Probably donate a billion to whatever research project interests me and live as a hermit.
>2.5 B
That'll be half of your money plus taxes, thanks.
Not how it works. Mojang was owned by another company, so that's where the money goes. All of it. How he gets it out of the company in order to spend it is another issue, but he's not getting the money as cash and paying a ridiculous amount of taxes because, unlike Ganker, he's not braindead.
I lost all respect for this guy when he didn't give a shit about Microsoft taking out Ganker references and adding BLM ones but shat his pants in rage over a Sonic the Hedgehog crossover.
Absolutely.
I would have cashed out and retired to Thailand where I fricked very little, petite Thai prostitutes of questionable ages.
Then once I got bored of that, I'd start fricking the delicious Thai ladyboys.
What would you actually do with all that money? It's an absurd amount. I'd probably just keep posting here, maybe pay for a personal trainer and chef.
>cash out and don't have to think about the thing I know brought in billions of autism spectrums that will inevitably complain about any change or update I would make
If I had an idea that had that appeal I would
Notch was always about vacations and stealing ideas.
>Do nothing
>Get paid billions
You can't help but respect the fat frick for that.
Microsoft probably made 10 times over that buy in price. But 2.5billion is still an absurd amount for one person. No matter what. For what the game was it was absolutely worth it.
Yes
Had he stayed he could've been vidya Jesus to hundreds of millions of zoomers, the next Disney scale figure
Just put a video of yourself reading the changelog every time a patch is out and embed it into the client and cement your legacy forever
Mega cringe, who the frick cares about zoomers?
My homie zoomers have made wealthy and influential men out of supreme morons on a much smaller scale, all for playing a game on stream and saying some dumb shit every now and then. Imagine the money and influence you'd have as the person dictating the direction of Minecraft and its public face.
I don't think people who ask this can conceptualize how much money that is for one man. I would sell anything for that price. Wife, kids? Want to frick my butthole? Sure, deal.
2.5 Billion dollars is 2500 Million dollars is 2,500,000 thousand dollars is 25,000,000 hundred dollars is 250,000,000 ten dollars is 2,500,000,000 one dollars.
For all you visual thinkers, that amount of money could buy you about 2,500,000,000 snicker bars.
That's a lot of nuts.
MS handled Minecraft better than he did and made the brand grow. He wouldnt have earned 2.5 billion if he didnt sell because he's a lazy butthole in the first place.
The smart thing would have been to create your own developer and then make games you wanted to make with the money since 2.5 billion is a ton of money for any dream game you want but instead he just wastes the money doing nothing.
Why would you need or want more than 2 billion dollars?
number must go up
>money but money and money
yes
Yes, homie you moronic? $2.5B is multiple generations worth of wealth.
Notch was a one trick pony that got lucky. His original idea wasn't even his. He literally copied it from another game. None of his other game ideas ever played out.