>sold one game for $2.5 billion Is he the most successful

sure, why not

also he taught us that you can't buy happiness, friends, or respect

>>380099887

Not even the only valuable lesson he taught. He taught that success in life is one hundred billion percent pure random chance and it doesn't even matter what the fuck you do. Notch is truly a great man.

>>380099660
Hes a pretty good guy

>>380099660
Yes, I don't think anyone else made 2.5 billion from a single game.

Most game designers are barely scraping by because publishers take most of the profit

>>380099887
You can, he just didn't. He could create a fund for indie games or something. He would be respected, maybe would even have friends.

>>380099660
Will anyone be this "successful" ever again? We're truly living in the lottery age.

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>you will never be this mad online

>>380100713
This.


I wouldn't say that those 2.5 billion are an achievement, M$ loved to overpay for shit.
I mean they fuckin bought Nokia for 3 billion just to let it die in the same period, they were just throwing money away.

>>380099887
>he taught us that you can't buy happiness, friends, or respect

If you don't to change yourself

>>380100713
>>380101838
I dont think having a billion dollar idea is luck to be honest

Also having the idea and making it work are two different pairs of shoes

>>380103203
>I dont think having a billion dollar idea is luck to be honest

It is luck. It's impossible for anyone to predict what the masses will latch onto. Notch himself sure as fuck had no idea that Minecraft would become a global sensation, it was just a thing he fucked around with for fun.

>>380103710
I thought notch stole the minecraft idea from some other guy though

>>380099660
He literally is, objectively.

>>380099660
I thought it was 4.5B, which was even more than Star Wars was worth to Disney?

>>380103710
>It's impossible for anyone to predict what the masses will latch onto.

Autism cubes and autism spinners are a pretty good example of this.

>>380099660
You forgot the revenue from all the copies sold before handing the rights to MS.

>>380101823
There was more to the argument. Zoe was BTFO by nearly every post other than her posse of SJW white knights

>>380101823
>enough money to buy anything he wants
Why the fuck would he not be spending his time doing whatever the hell he wants then? He doesn't have to work another day in his life and his preferred past time is being mad at the internet, why should he spend his money according to your whims and expectations?

>>380099660

Could've sold it for much more than that

Does he get royalties or did he sell the IP for a fixed price?

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>>380101823
>Zoe Quinn is still alive

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>>380100713
>is one hundred billion percent pure random chance and it doesn't even matter what the fuck you do.

>>380105551

>hey random neckbeard, we will buy that game from you for 2.5 billion dollars
>yeah, i dunno.... 2.5 billion is not that much.... maybe you can go higher?

This is what you think should have happened? 2.5 billion is enough to do LTIERALLY anything he wants for the remainder of his life. ANYTHING

>>380105229
everybody seems to forget that notch is a /v/irgin that became a billionaire overnight
would any of us really act any differently in the same position?

>>380106958
Do you think notch started this thread?

>>380106796

Not saying he made a bad deal

He's living the dream. He can shitpost all day on a $5000 PC and go to sleep on a mattress stuffed with $100 bills

>>380107214
Yes I did

>>380099660
>Is he the most successful game developer
thief and yes

>>380108701
All the money he has was legitimately acquired. Unless by that you meant some autistic argument that abstract ideas can be 'stolen'.

>>380104550
You thought wrong, feg

He's a one hit wonder

The chinks at nintendo are more impresive

>>380110556
Nintendo does not hire Chinese people.

>>380107214
No, I didn't.

>>380101459
fucking this, nothing more frustrating than a billionare who doesn't know what to do with his money

>>380109973
Ideas can be stolen, even if they couldn't your point is still irrelevant as he copied an already existing game not an "idea".

>>380103954
he stole it from infiniminer

>>380106958
I feel like an /anon who got this power would be a force to be reckened with, unfortunatley /a/nons just don't up and become millionares by releasing something the blows up overnight.

>>380111362

Not Notch's fault that Zach never finished his game.

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>>380111143
No they can't be stolen, abstract thoughts, numbers, algorithms have no physical representation thus they can't be removed from somebodies wealth. Also he didn't "copy" an already existing game, he was inspired by it.
>>380111362
The author of infiniminer doesn't have a copyright on the voxel genre, it cannot be "stolen".

>>380112240
Speak for yourself. If I had a billion dollars in a blink of an eye I'd become the most impressive NEET on the planet and fap myself into oblivion. The only thing that'd become a force to be reckoned with are my kegels.

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>>380099887
>happiness

are you 8 or sopmething ?

>>380105551
>>380106796
>>380107291
Minecraft should be worth way more than Beats Headphones yet Beats Headphones was bought by Apple at higher prices despite the fact Minecraft had a far larger player/consumerbase.

>>380112240
>/a/nons
The most they accomplished was either translating shit, or going to Japan and being a fucking teacher.
Not dissing the translators, but there is just way more money in video games than anime.

>>380099660
is he /ourguy/?

>>380100713
Na.
This is ten percent luck
Twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure
Fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name

>>380118272
>200% of something
Are you actually retarded