Why is minecraft still so expensive?

>>378445817
Because little kids still buy it

>>378445817
10 years down the tap into that game an you ask why it cost a lot man you fucking not understanding hiow business works like just think for a second how thse years go nby and those guyts need food for their families you will nevr understnad

It's the most fun you can have while playing an app.

because notch didn't know how prices work

>>378445863
It was still selling like crazy when I worked at gamestop a few month ago, and the parents didn't gave a second thought about buying it unlike CoD.

I hate to admit it but that 2billions MS throws at Notch is totally going to pay off.

minecraft is the second best selling game of all time and is only beaten by a game with a head start of several decades

>>378445817
I LOVE BUILDING BRICKS IN MINECRAP

>>378449508
what's the other game?

>>378449705
tetris by ~370,000,000 sales

>>378449884
cool
so you mean tetris out sold minecraf by 370 mill or tetris sold 370 mill, when it came out till now?

It's a 2 prong tactic
1: mojang wants mobile mc to sell more
2: mojang wants to get people off pc edition (it's harder for them to code, and enables them to sell you shit like skins and texture packs)

These two feed into eachother. make pc more expensive and it makes the 6-12 dollar mobile option much more attractive.

And ultimately, because people still buy it for that expensive price.

>>378445817
>not buying the full game for $5 when it was in early alpha then dropping the game before the end of beta

Because ripping off kids is easy.

>>378450137
this was the patrician route. You've exhausted all the fun of the game, hundreds of hours of exploring, building, and stories, before it went full retail.

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>>378450015
Difference.

There's no reason why it should be cheap. They're still making money on it for the price it's at.

>>378445817
It's the price people are willing to pay for it.
How are you so poor that $25 is expensive to you?

>>378450363
That's it? And how much did Microsoft buy it for? Doesn't seem like they've made their money back if it only costs 20 bucks. And considering all the sales that happened pre-microsoft purchase.

>>378446138
I skipped Minecraft and got Crashlands. Great value actually.

>>378450761
there's also figurines, legos, shirts, hats, books, ect

they've made a ton of money and will continue to make money for decades to come. Shit, a theme park might not be out of the question

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>>378450363
Holy fuck. Microsoft don't even need Halo anymore.

>>378450761
Minecraft's merchandising is one of the most successful in recent history, and the game's got tons of DLC.

>>378450761
Current price of Minecraft is around $25. Assuming everyone who's purchased the game has spent $25 (they haven't but we're ballparking here), with 122M units sold they're looking at $3.05 billion, a little more than a billion more than the 2B Microsoft bought the game off Notch for. Now, subtract a bit for the game being cheaper, people probably buying about half the copies before MS bought it, and then add a shitload more from all the licensed merchandise Minecraft has. They're most definitely making a profit here.

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>>378450870
most of that shit, especially the fanfiction books, is fanmade garbage that microsoft doesn't get a cent off of

>>378451276
Mostly just the books. Any of the toys that aren't Chinese knockoff shit or tube heroes knockoff shit I still cannot fucking believe that youtube has a fucking toy series for their lets players - the cancer is spreading are licensed, along with almost any apparel you'll see.

>>378450761
Did you forget about all the merch they sell? They sell a metric shitload of it too. That global sold is only for the PC version as well, imagine how many they resold on other platforms such as on an ipad because little Timmy wanted to play minecraft on the go?

It was an investment to profit no more than 2-3 years and to maintain for a long time.

>>378451276
What's the context for this

>>378451513
madness combat figurines when

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>>378451778
Now THAT shit I could get behind.

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>>378451708
it's a "joke" book

http://imgur.com/a/S8eaO

>>378450761
2 billion was a steal, notch was just sick of it

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>>378451646
Considering it's a game that sold more than GTAV, MS got Mojang for a steal.

Shit gets real if Minecraft 2 is announced at this year E3.

>>378445817
Offer and demand

>>378451276
>>378451934
jesus christ how fucking horrifying
i can only picture a bunch of overweight 8 year old special ed kids sitting in the corner as they spit half-chewed tendies everywhere while laughing as they pass this book around to read the "jokes" out loud

>>378452228
I don't even think kids would find this shit funny. I mean I enjoyed a lot of genuinely garbage shit as a kid but god damn these "jokes" are a new level of terrible.

Annoying shitty squeaky minecraft brats who were 12 when it was released are now old enough to post.

>>378452112
>SCORPIO ONLY

>>378452491
In two years, people born after 9/11 will be old enough to post.

>>378452685
8 year olds who are nostalgic about getting modern warfare for christmas are old enough to post now.

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>>378451276
>The player who walked in on two creepers

>>378450363
>Some /v/ neckbeard makes a game
>2nd best selling game of all time
Is the vidya industry even trying?

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>>378453550
Kek, thanks family

>>378450872
brown bdicks?

>>378452585
>scoprio outsells everything because of minecraft 2, and kids demanding it from their parents

man, i hope i get bored of videogames entirely before 2025 or so, it's going to be a mess

>>378454115
You will just get a PC like me and play emulators all day while ranting on /vr/ or here even.

it's been 4 years since I've last played minecraft
convince me to mod it and replay it again

>>378454115
On the other hand, it WOULD be funny to watch the /v/irgins go into full meltdown at the unstoppable tide of gold faces being thrown out by xbox fans.

>>378454406
shit i might get in on that
I love posting opinions I don't even hold just to make /v/irgins mad

>>378454109
yes.

>>378454625
yes?

>>378445863
My son has bought it for xbox 360, his iPad, his android, and his pc
He still plays it now (likes bedwars multi)

He watches youtubers playing it
Kids fucking love it

>>378454823
Why did you let him buy it so many times?

>>378454337
heres my mod list, it feels like im playing a DLC (1.7.10)

Buildcraft
Industrialcraft
Balkon's Weapons
qcraft
Ironchest
Equilavent Exchange

Other mods that improve stuff from cancer to playable
Treecapitator
Dimensional Anchors
Journeymap
NEI
Optifine

have fun with them

>>378454823
>My son
and you allowed all of this? how fucking horrifying

don't be surprised when he turns out like the average person that browses this website

>>378452228
>>378452417
It was written by a kid and his parents. If I'm remembering right one of them had a PhD.

>>378455002
I'm a bad parent

We had it for the xbox first, then outside of my control he used credit from his istore and playstore which he got as presents to buy it twice more.

Then he was bitching about mods and online, so I thought fuck it and got it again for the PC

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>>378455170
like father like son?

>>378455308
Teach him some manners. He can't spend money like that when he grows up.

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>>378450761
Microsoft didn't buy Mojang for Minecraft or any of the other games, the game itself is irrelavant.

they bought a generation of gamers, they bought nostalgia, Minecraft is little to no use for Microsoft right now besides small pet projects.

the point is, years down the line they can just say hey [SOFTWARE] comes with Minecraft, perhaps "Minecraft 2" that game you remembered so fondly from your childhood/teenage years, etc, so pre-order now!

they purchased the "Super Mario" of a future generation of consumers.

>>378455482
Well it was his money, he can spend it how he wants? And I am not for want or things, so it didn't really bother me

>>378455308
honestly I think you should just send him to military school or choke him to death, whichever comes first

>>378455537
Well, this, and the fact that they made a shitload of money in just licensing toys and clothing alone. But the most important part is what you said - they bought an entire generation of kids.

friendly reminder that notch sold the game so he could detach himself from the cancerous obsessive community that formed around his shitty half assed game

the two million on the side was just a bonus

>>378456040
>the two million on the side was just a bonus
anon, it's $2.5B not Million, B as in Billion

>>378456040
$2.5 billion, actually. Dude's set for life AND he's just about fully detached from his game that spiraled into a pool of autism. Now he's living the dream - doing nothing but fucking around with coding while shitposting on twitter.

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>tfw Minecraft is still shit
>tfw Terraria became one of the top 10 best games of all time
Wew lads, I backed the wrong horse in 2010.

>>378450363
>GTAV is super close to passing Wii Sports
holy shit

>>378456571
>most people buy the game twice
>some people buy it three times
wow what a surprise

>>378452112
It might as well to be honest. They've been busy working on a C++ version which is on the win10 store so it's easier to maintain across the dozen versions and with that it's pretty easy to advertise "wow same worlds on ipad and on pc!"

>>378456470
>>378456519
point still stands

What is the point of Minecraft?

>>378456641
back in the day GTA4 was supposed to be the penultimate Wii killer, that never happened. It's interesting how GTAV kind of did fulfill the analysts (like Michael "PS3 is Wii HD!" Pachter) wishful thinking

>>378456932
You build shit. Dudes come at night to fuck with your shit if you want them to. It's basically the prototype of every "survival-openworld-crafting-early access" abomination on steam, and somehow despite almost a decade is still better than all of them.

Post comfy songs from the ost.
https://youtu.be/K0Zek3lUB2o

>>378455537
Holy fuck, I never thought of that. The profit of minecraft isn't even Icing on the cake, it's the sprinkles.

>>378456932
it's like lego except you don't need to keep milking your wallet to get blocks and doesn't create a mess

>>378452112
>>378452585
>>378454115

Worse -

It will be offered up as a "games as a service" with loot boxes and different "tiers". Free, club membership, premium membership, platinum membership.

Free. You get an avatar and access to then overworld. You get your "Complimentary!" 24 slot storage space and can host your own 3x3 map grid for building your empire!

Club membership. You get everything in the free membership but also unlock the club bank that expands your 24 slot storage to 3 more slots expanding your storage to 96 slots. In addition to this you now are seen as a knight of the land and the dragon amulet you wear around your neck allows you to build a Nether Portal with the appropriate materials. The Nether Portal allows you to venture into the *exclusive nether zone where you can battle special monsters and have access to rare loot and materials. With your knight's amulet you can invite alone one free friend.
Your status as a knight of the land grants you a 5x5 grid for building your emprire.

Premium membership. You get everything in the above two tiers in addition to an additional 96 slots. The ability to build up to 3 nether portals. The ability to build an angel portal with the appropriate materials that leads to the high-realms (from the nether) where there is even rarer loot and monsters and materials. You get a 7x7 grid for your empire and you are allowed a special mount for traversing your vast kingdom. You have the rank of lord.

Platinum membership. Same as above. 6 nether portals, 2 angel portals. Monthly events. 9x9 grid, tons of inventory space. Rank of king and soft-admin privileges (controlling your 9x9 domain's permissions).

----

Also introducing ancient relics! unidentified items or containers that may or may not contain exclusive and valuable items that need to be identified and opened by an ancient sage. Ancient sages are found in the Nether and will perform their work for good boy points!

>>378454746
yes!

Tekkit is still the best mod pack. Prove me wrong

>>378457637
it's the best premade modpack, i'll give you that, but the objective best modpack is the one you assemble yourself to your every whim

>>378457224
That's a silvagunner track.

It was way cheaper to buy before it got popular. Shoulda bought it then.

>>378457363
you're supposed to travel to the Czech republic for cheap LEGO's and Beer, that's how that game is played.

>>378457450
I feel like there must be private servers that do this already.

>>378455482

I'm sorry your poor anon, shit fucking sucks.

What is the point of Minecrap?

>>378457873
>only had a shitty notebook laptop and a pirated copy of minecraft that I could get maybe 10fps on lowest settings
>now it's $30+ to buy it when it was like $15 or so and "you get a copy on every device" was promised
fug

>>378450237
>before it went full retard.
Fixed it for you.

>>378458025
lol @ u

>>378458185
You mean Mineycrafta?

>>378454823
You are a bad parent

>>378445817
Are those brown bricks?

>>378458489
No he isn't
He says his kid wasted his allowance on the game, so he is actually a good parent.

>>378458594
That makes no sense. You are also a bad parent

>>378458187
>and "you get a copy on every device" was promised
never happened

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>>378450137
Honestly I think a lot of the fun came from the potential the game had. But no, we had to have nothing but boring, stupid, predictable enemies and autistic building added into the game. Oh and I guess an endgame that is only accessible by farming and other boring shit.

>>378458654
>kid will likely realize buying so many copies of the same game was a waste of money
>won't do it in the future
good parenting imo, let the kid make his mistakes while also letting him enjoy them while he's young

>>378458654
You are a good parent if you give your kid money and you let him spend his money in any way he wants it, as long as you aren't giving him drugs or amphetamines I guess

>>378455737
He is a fucking child not an adult. Children can not deal with money. Hell they can barely manage their emotions so how in hell should they be able to manage their finances ?

>>378458894
My parents gave me $5 when I was a kid and told me if I wanted a SNES I should save it over
And I did save over
Now I know how to administer my money perfectly.
So yeah, you are an idiot anon.

>>378458894
He has spent like a total of what $80, I have spent more on a night out.

He spent it over the course of maybe 2/3 years, I'm shure he will be fine

>>378458707
It was promised that anyone who bought the game in alpha would receive all future versions for free. They probably worded that wrong but that was the implication.

>>378459228
It obviously meant that all "updates"

>>378459045
>implying kids today know how to budget.
They don't teach that shit in school. No wonder why many people get into soo much debt during college.

>>378459228
nobody who owned the original PC version got any of the console versions for free
i believe people did get the shitty win10 version though

>>378449692
I am better than you are

Some idiot posted his account here to share it and then some asshole changed his password.

>>378459838
Ok then you make the review

>>378445817
What's it cost now? I bought it back in indev when nobody knew what it was.

>>378460171
27 usd

>>378451276

If I read this as post-ironic satire it cracks me up

>>378459625
source?

>>378460090
what the fuck else did you expect

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Wasn't there a /v/ alpha server up a week ago?

Where did that go?

>>378460802
>Implying alpha fuckers have time to actually play
Hahahahaha

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>>378460909

Newfag?

>>378460639

https://exhentai.org/g/667336/920e707222/

>>378459350

If you need a class to learn how to budget you deserve to be in the poorhouse

>>378445817
Because milk people for all they are worth

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>>378460802
im the OP that made that server
barely anyone joined, and those who did kept blowing each other up
I'll probably put it up again with the FLAOT map

MINEYCRAFTA

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>>378462810

Put it up again. I was having fun, it was cozy.

Are you that tom person?

>>378459350
I still don't understand how people have such a hard time with the simple concept of "Don't spend more money than you have, idiot"

>>378463095
To be fair, if you go to a good college for something good you can get a good job and pay back your debt reasonably fast

It's people who take loans and go to school for sociology or Africana studies who are fucked

I remember when that fat faggot notch posted here.

>>378460641
Nothing, I was expecting, maybe he was still around and salt the wound.

>>378462810
>who did kept blowing each other up
>Manchildren acting like edgy 12 year olds
Wew

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>>378462957
yep thats me. i handed the server to a guy who said he could have it up 24/7. but it's been down for days so idk.
I'll make a thread when it's working

>>378463732

Link here if this thread is still up when you have it

>>378463732
>87 views
JUST

>>378450363
The top two grossing games of all time are:
A game made by a single researcher in order to test Soviet scientific computer hardware
A game made by a fat /v/tard with no prior game design experience

Jesus Christ.

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>>378463732
>i handed the server to a guy who said he could have it up 24/7

He used his admin powers to make some super special spawn base or something with infinite materials. He made it mostly out of wood and then somebody burned it all down and he was so upset he closed the server for everyone.

If you're going to run a server I think it's best to treat it as a sandbox for the players and rarely interfering with admin powers.

>>378464871
>A game made by a fat /v/tard with no prior game design experience
Honestly these people make the best games and the reason that game design degrees and courses make me laugh. Some of the best games like Doom were made by people who just liked games and knew how to code. They didn't need shit like courses on what makes games fun - that shit's obvious.

>>378445817
cracked accounts are like 0.25$
git gud

>>378465076
oh shit i didn't know that.
the first few nights when youre mining and surviving mobs in a dirthouse are the best. once you have chests full of every material it gets boring
so it's probably best to make a new world every couple of days

>>378464871

Do we have any other claims to fame aside from Minecraft and Katawa Shoujo? Politics aside of course

>>378466429
Didn't Risk of Rain come out of the /vg/ gamedev general?

>>378466429

Dorf fortress was heavily shilled here, ace of spades and day z i think all had /v/ involvement

>>378462810

Does anybody else get vertigo with this shit?

>>378466338
>so it's probably best to make a new world every couple of days

Maybe once a month or so.

>>378455269
>tfw your kid is smarter than you