The money was probably split among the various founders... especially the ones who are bailing. But still...
I'm kind of keeping my opinions on this to myself. Hard to tell where flabbergast ends and sour grapes begins.
It's definitely an opportunity if there ever was one. It's brewed up alot of hate and people are going to be falling off the Minecraft bandwagon faster than ever before.
Maybe. I wish I was in a better position to take advantage of it.
Really, there are a lot of users who don't care... and those that do are already ingrained in the "rage-quit" cycle: "Stupid game!!! I'm never playing this again!" ...until five minutes later... I suspect any "I'm never playing again" from those folks will be short lived.
Video games tend to go through this sort of backlash periodically where a bunch of people threaten to quit "forever" but very few actually do. So we'll see.
Personally, I think it's a really dumb move on MS's part. They somehow think they will "break even" by June 2015. They must be using a different math book than I am but then again, I don't run a successful multi-billion $$ corporation either. That being said, they've been making a lot of seemingly dumb moves lately so who knows.
One thing that should be nice about all of this is that competitors (like myself) should be facing _much_ less backlash going forward. We are no longer "attacking notch's dream" as some people reacted in the past. At least I hope the community will be much less defensive going forward.
That's also the dumb thing. This wasn't notch's dream. He specifically stated he's just a nerd programmer wanting to make silly things. He NEVER wanted Minecraft to be like this. That's why he said now, if he ever makes something again that starts to gain traction, he's dropping it completely. Sad, but I can't blame him.
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Development speed doesn't mean much to me anymore. I just love this place.
