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Thinking about MS's recent acquisitions, how long will it take to recoup the money they spent on: LinkedIn, MineCraft and now GitHub?

LinkedIn: $26b

MineCraft: $2.5b

Github: $7.5b

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Did the Minecraft thing not make money for them? I imagine now that it's on a ton of platforms it's made that back?

As of January 2018, over 144 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time behind Tetris.

^ from wikipedia

If they sold each for $10, then thats $1.5 bil (if my maths right). So I think it's safe to say that they have not made their money back ... yet.

It's $26 on PC and $20 on Xbox, so the revenue is about there

+ microtransactions for skins and graphics packs

Merch? Every kid I know has Minecraft Legos, Minecraft pajamas, Minecraft fidget spinners ...

Minecraft legos are a funny thought. Minecraft basically _is_ digitized lego.

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