Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. And how did that end? They eventually split in 2007. That's what happened when Microsoft acquired Bungie, the makers of the multi-billion-dollar Halo franchise. The question now on fans' minds is whether a big company like Microsoft will let this independent, humble game maker roam freely and retain its unique flavor - or suck the soul out of the studio. And it's more than double that number today. Between 20, the number of registered users grew from 14 million to 39 million. Still, there's value in Minecraft's fan base alone, especially because it keeps growing. Related news: Football + FarmVille? Can Sports save Zynga? King Digital Entertainment ( KING) hasn't produced anything as addictive as the mobile game Candy Crush, and its shares have fallen 36% since it started trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in March. Rovio is dumping its CEO in January to try to turn things around.
The video game world is full of one-hit wonders.Īngry Birds was a sensation that Rovio hasn't been able to replicate, and the company ended 2013 with a 50% drop in net profit. If Microsoft is buying Minecraft to pump out hit games, the odds are stacked against it. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter." but I don't make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits," he wrote. Now that a major corporation is involved and Minecraft has gone mainstream, it's all too much for him. On Monday, Larsson wrote a public letter saying he's leaving Mojang as soon as he signs the deal. But buying Minecraft won't give Microsoft the brains behind the creation.
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