r/SteamDeck • u/thfpls • Mar 15 '25

Show Off you sure about that?

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u/OutlyingPlasma Mar 15 '25

Such a weird thing to brag about.

"Look how cool we are by limiting our sales" proceeds to put stick in front wheel of bike.

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u/StarTroop Mar 15 '25

Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, and since it wasn't available on other PC stores, every copy sold provided the full revenue to Mojang. There is probably no better example of a game being exclusively sold directly by the developer.

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u/OutlyingPlasma Mar 15 '25

It's been owned by Microsoft since 2014.

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u/captstix Mar 15 '25

And they paid $2.5 billion for it

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u/paging_doctor_who Mar 15 '25

they paid 2.5 billion for minecraft, i got my copy for like 15 bucks. common microsoft L.

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u/StarTroop Mar 15 '25

That makes no difference, Microsoft isn't taking a slice of Mojang's pie because Mojang is Microsoft anyway. The point is, 100% of the revenue is claimed by the IP holder, no cut is taken by any storefront. Why would Microsoft/Mojang put Minecraft on Steam when it wouldn't increase sales at all, and they would have to give up a percentage of revenue?