Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
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Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#2Why would you work for a software company if you are making that much?
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#3Not surprised. What could a job at either Valve or Bungie give him that he doesn't get now?
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#4It's kinda sad that the Dwarf Fortress creator only earns about 2k a day. It shows what some business savvy will do for you.
Then ago, the DF creator is passionatr about his vision, so who knows.
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#5Not surprised. What could a job at either Valve or Bungie give him that he doesn't get now?
Quite true. Notch has the potential to build his own 'Valve' or 'Bungie'.
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#6The most refreshing part of this story is that it's not about the Apple / Google / etc App stores.
Shows that exceptional indie products can get huge traction on a traditional platform, sort of like Braid on XBOX / PC / etc.
That said, also excites me for the future when MSFT's & Apple's standard OS come with a servicable app store baked in.
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#7Why would you work for a software company if you are making that much?
Think Hollywood director type job offer.
Use somebody else's money to build your dream product with a huge incredible staff.
Get gauranteed, huge up front salary to do so.
Take away a sizeable piece of the action on the success.
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#8Valve: "We heard you were making $350k/day, how would you like a job making $50k/year?"
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#9It's kinda sad that the Dwarf Fortress creator only earns about 2k a day. It shows what some business savvy will do for you. Then ago, the DF creator is passionatr about his vision, so who knows.
Not sure if it's business savvy. While Dwarf Fortress is a great indie game I don't think it has the wide spread appeal of a game like mine craft. Mine craft's 3D world and game play is more intuitive to your average person. Not to mention Notch's luck with going viral certainly helps as well.
Re: Minecraft creator banks $350k a day, turns down job offers from Valve and Bungie
#10I don't know where this website pulled their numbers from, but I think they're incorrect.
According to Minecraft's stats[1], in the last 24 hours 12,025 people bought the game, times 9.95 Euro = 119,499.50 Euro, which is a bit less than $163k/day in American dollars.