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brett_jv

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2. Really don't see how the heck that was a 'good' investment by MS ...

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 05:01 PM

Nov 2015

Games simply do NOT stay 'hot' for very long.

The market is very much prone to 'fads', then they tend to burn out ... and dramatically, usually.

Considering they didn't even 'buy' the founder/creators of the actual game, just the rights to the existing game, and the fact that the game is 5 years old and has 'only' grossed $700M yet they spent $2,500M to buy the rights and the studio and it's programmers (who I'm guessing are not esp. talented, this 'game' is more about the 'idea' than any real technical programming accomplishments), I have a hard time seeing how MS makes back their $2.5B from the deal.

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