03-31-2011, 06:27 AM
It's not so much the money Mojang is making that confuses people, it's where that money goes.
From my understanding Notch is doing the clever thing and using the money from Minecraft to establish himself properly, setting up a proper team, paying for office space and equipment, and so forth.
They even have another game being worked on tentatively in the background, which in my mind is good planning if he wants to keep Mojang alive after Minecraft eventually dies down.
Not to mention basic running costs, like bandwidth fees for his site, and the rather nifty cloud solution for game updates and account verification, which isn't cheap but does get around the early growing pains preventing people from playing when the authentication server periodically died.
And if you look at the last few updates they're actually still doing a considerable amount of work despite their offices being worked on and the recent spat of conventions and such, provided Notch keeps a level head (which so far he seems to be doing) and they don't fall into the dreaded trap of project creep, I'd say they're nicely on track.
If it was a realistic option I'd happily invest money in them.
From my understanding Notch is doing the clever thing and using the money from Minecraft to establish himself properly, setting up a proper team, paying for office space and equipment, and so forth.
They even have another game being worked on tentatively in the background, which in my mind is good planning if he wants to keep Mojang alive after Minecraft eventually dies down.
Not to mention basic running costs, like bandwidth fees for his site, and the rather nifty cloud solution for game updates and account verification, which isn't cheap but does get around the early growing pains preventing people from playing when the authentication server periodically died.
And if you look at the last few updates they're actually still doing a considerable amount of work despite their offices being worked on and the recent spat of conventions and such, provided Notch keeps a level head (which so far he seems to be doing) and they don't fall into the dreaded trap of project creep, I'd say they're nicely on track.
If it was a realistic option I'd happily invest money in them.