In the news today, Microsoft
bought Mojang for $2.5 billion. Mojang is famous for one product: Minecraft.
Minecraft is like Second Life in that there are no specific goals for players to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in choosing how to play the game.
Although Minecraft is hugely popular, it has never appealed to me. The graphics are primitive and everything appears block-shaped, even spherical objects, like the sun and the moon. Here's a screen-shot of a scene from Minecraft, showing a couple of sheep:
Impressive, isn't it? If Microsoft is willing to pay $2.5 billion for Minecraft, how much would Second Life be worth with its vastly superior rendering system?
Apparently, zero.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's zero. There's probably a number between 0 and $2.5 billion that would interest Microsoft.
DeleteThen why haven't they bought it? SL has been around much longer than Minecraft.
DeleteMaybe SL management wants too much.
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