Notch gives $3 million Mojang dividend to employees

@DarkSonata according to wikipedia, 25.

Proceed to pity yourself!

@DarkSonata

It came out to 120k a person, providing the divided it equally.

Probably more than they're salaries.

@jordan97267

well, that's BEFORE taxes. After, it's probably closer to $80k or so per person.

@Faceless Troll Don't think so. I applied several weeks ago for the candy jar filler and haven't heard since then.

@Anarqi I'd gladly work as a Mojang ass-kisser slash donut getter if it meant getting a nice bonus.

@Dante G
Now try $120,000

@BlueRajasmyk

I'd be more than happy with 10k, with 120k I would be ecstatic.

@FuzzyPierce

At this point I'd hardly call it unfinished. When I play it I don't think of it as unfinished. To me, it's a full game with regular updates. Especially since there is "technically" and ending now.

@FuzzyPierce Look at it this way. The game is super fun to play in the state it is. Almost every month there are new things and features added for FREE. That's right, for free. Any other game company would be charging us $5-$10 for updates. Sure they might be bigger, but you are looking at this all wrong. They are actually smart for doing it like this. People will play the game for longer because each time they come back, there is something new to play with.

And please don't call EA a respectable company. Don't even get me started on how rediculous they are.

@Lotsamoss

Well, not any other company. Valve has added to TF2 an insane number of times, and then made the game free. But Valve has always been the exception, not the rule.

@FuzzyPierce NVM You didn't call EA respectable, I misread. But 1 more thing. Mojang also had it at such a low price at the beginning for those people that were there from the beginning as a thank you. They warned that once it was more complete, they would be raising the price. It still costs less than a lot of DLC nowadays and the guy in charge isn't keeping all of the hard earned money for himself. They deserve credit and respect.

@FuzzyPierce


cry us a river. at this point the game is more of a game then it will ever be. i spent 10 bucks ONCE and to this day i still get more gameplay then games i paid twice or three times as much. Limbo cost me 15 bucks and as great as it was it stands unplayed. If Monjag is STILL making money to this day then i applaud them.

@FuzzyPierce

You paid for a game that would be finished over time, nobody says when the game will be finished. Get over it.

@SisypheanLife

Valve has also screwed over alot of that goodwill by slamming purchasable items down everyone's throat. You either wait for a drop (which can, and does have it's drop rate controlled by Valve), craft it with a ridiculous material amount meant to frustrate you into buying it, or pay for it. And that's not even mentioning the items which can ONLY be found in crates, which cost money each time to open. They also whore out the game to be a promotion tool, giving items to preorders of games on Steam, then months later letting some of them trickle in as drops or crafts.

They make far more money now than they ever did with TF2 at retail. And "updates" today consist more of more paid items, usually from player contributions and not even Valve's work themselves, than actual content.

@FuzzyPierce
You gotta whisper things like these. God knows why, but the Minecraft Defense Force is the largest militia on the internet, possibly the world.

@Drakkenfyre
Your envy is showing.

@Drakkenfyre
Are you really trying to make someone think that buyable virtual hats are a big deal?

@Cave Johnson

You bring great shame to your user-name.

@FuzzyPierce "We're still playing an unfinished minecraft, guys. We're still missing tons of promised features. People are still buying it at an artifically increased price because it's "retail" now despite still being very, very unfinished."
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that a game that presents literally infinite amounts of playability and at least Skyrim amounts of adventure per world, along with getting new features all the time, was a bad deal. You idiot, people like the game BECAUSE it's unfinished! It's already so great now and keeps people occupied for loooooong amounts of time, and it doesn't even have all its features yet! The price isn't artificially increased, it's gotten a lot more things since beta, and now the price won't ever change again, so you're still getting a full game at the full price. It's just that instead of taking the BS Activision "You'll pay us some more later for DLC!" approach and just adding only what they said they would before saying it's done, they took the VALVe "Hey, we made new stuff, here you go." path and add new things while they work on the main stuff, which is epic.
TL:DR Minecraft is a whole game now, unfinished=/=bad.

@Cave Johnson
The real Cave Johnson would be bombing your house with Combustible Lemons (Tm) right about now for that stupid comment.

@superafroboy

Good PR is never kept private...

@superafroboy
I find nothing wrong with him letting people know he did something nice for his workers. Besides, if he didn't let you know, you would not be applauding him right now.

@Flat Rook

Actually, Notch had no decision over releasing the info or not... Looking through his employees twitter feed and they pretty much announced it before him, by atleast a day

@crookedking How do you know? you don't know shit.

@Raffi256 If I had to guess, they might get a tiny portion because in a way, they were working for Mojang, without working for Mojang... if that makes any sense. Through Bukkit they probably helped Notch sell atleast 1000 copies.


If they did, It would be more of a "Thank you for helping us" bonus