Mojang has revealed that when it's collectible card battling game Scrolls comes to tablets, it will be dropping the price significantly from the current PC version. A post on the Scrolls website reasons that, “our current price of $21 isn't feasible for tablets... Free-to-play would be an option, but we’re not keen on the way that form of monetisation can affect gameplay.” That much makes sense.
Integrations of NFTs with Minecraft are generally not something Mojang will support or allow.
The Minecraft mobile apps made Microsoft over $100 million last year. The profits are the highest for the iOS and Android versions of Mojang's blocky sandbox adventure.
I admit that I was one of those people who laughed when MS spent 2.5 billion USD in 2014 for Mojang.
I was wrong. This game is not going anywhere.
Crazy how this game got so huge. Same as Fortnite. There's a formula, and it's streaming. What popular culture rip offs were for Fortnite, Mods were for Minecraft. Popularity to follow, kids(and parents) to spend $. I've seen children play Minecraft, and I have seen them play Mario.. With Minecraft, they seem to mimic streamers/videos.
mario is a high quality game, for you to compare mario to this just reminds me why single player games are dying,
I'm not comparing Mario.. Just comparing one of the more accessible popular single player games(to children and long time fans) to Minecraft, not that they are similar or on the same level. I'm saying that children follow trends, and that's where the money is. Mario's $ is in the initial purchase, not the long game and Minecraft and Fortnite are running.
They definitely made a lot more than that back.
They bought Minecraft when it was around 30 million players. Now it's at 154 million copies sold. The 2nd best selling game of all time.
fun fact: Phil Spencer was the one that convinced Nadella to buy Minecraft.
Unfortunate news falls on Mojang’s lesser-known title, Scrolls. Lead game designer Måns Olson announced on Tuesday that the official Scrolls servers are shutting down soon, and a number of community events have been scheduled to send it off.
I'm glad its not F2P, but I do wonder if the every growing amount of non-tablet games (like BioShock recently) going to tablets is having an effect on the audience and who is playing on iPad.
Given App Store pricing I think it's very wise. More people will buy it who otherwise might have sat on the fence. Plus smaller screens kind of lessen the experience in some people's minds, so the price drop justifies it to those people.
$5 is a nice round number for the App Store. Premium without being PREMIUM.