> ... I would probably be able to buy all of Mexico with that amount of cash. > > Reuters is saying Microsoft is gonna pay 2.5 billion for Mojang. This is stupid. > Just... why spend all that money? They're not gonna make a single dime from the > purchase and will probably murder the studio in a couple of years.
That's ridiculous. I can't go into specifics, but it sure as hell won't be as soon as that, and the game is still making money hand-over-fist. The fact that they paid that much money for the company is pretty much why they aren't going to do anything to kill the studio in the first fucking place.