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if through this the founders were majority holders, they must be, to say the least, some of the most extremely successful business people in all of gaming so fa
by no_wizard 4y ago
if through this the founders were majority holders, they must be, to say the least, some of the most extremely successful business people in all of gaming so far.
Microsoft paid a good sum of money for them before, and then they got spun off, and had successful runs with Destiny, and I'm sure the Activision partnership was lucrative, and now Sony buys them straight for 3.6 Billion USD.
Only Carmack has had this kind of success I think.
- ingenieros 4y agoMost of them left a few years after being acquired by Microsoft to start another company named Wideload Games which was later acquired by Disney. By this point I'd be surprised if anyone from the original core team is still at Bungie. Also, Carmack wouldn't have taken that gig at Oculus if he had fu money. From what I can recall he was screwed over by Zenimax in that acquisition and a quick google search reveals his net worth to be at 50 million which is not too shabby, but certainly nowhere near his contribution to the field. Contrary to popular belief only a handful of game devs have made out like bandits: Tim Sweeney, Gabe Newell and Notch come to mind.
- no_wizard 4y agoor perhaps, he took the gig at Oculus because he had more than enough money to live on for the rest of his days? I guess I don't see that as evidence one way or another. That not withstanding, 50 million is very good, but was actually yes, less than I expected, taking that on face value