Lets see here, 20 million usd. Lets say mojang gets around $12 from each sold copy of minecraft after taxes, putting taxes at a very generous 50%, they'll require around ~1666666 sold copies for that. At a rate of 9000 copies sold per day, they'll have the budget required after half a year of minecraft sales. Needless to…
what it think is really pushing it over the top is tim shafer and ron gilbert's name attached. this kind of model seems to work (minecraft, overgrowth, natural selection 2 etc.). problem is i can see it one day someone going to promise big and completely fail to deliver, or deliver the game and find out that the…