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If Minecraft is worth 2.5 billion, how much is Dwarf Fortress (an all around superior game) worth?

• notacoward 12y ago
  Next to nothing. First, it's not obviously superior. The learning curve, both for playing and creating, is much higher. Proponents with slight (or more than slight) elitist tendencies might see that as a positive, but everyone else sees it as a negative. Also, the mechanics of DF don't lend themselves as well to free-form experimentation as Minecraft's. As a GAME with a goal etc. perhaps DF is better, but as an ACTIVITY and particularly as a learning experience it's far behind. More importantly, the value of Minecraft goes well beyond the game itself. It's also about the community, the business relationships, the approval of educators. There's a maker place that my daughter goes to, where they offer several very popular courses in Minecraft building and modding. There are probably thousands of such places, and millions of individual kids talking about Minecraft after school. Critical mass matters, and DF will never have that. So you enjoy DF more? Bully for you. Your enjoyment DOES NOT MATTER in terms of valuation. "Worth" is determined directly by the purchaser, indirectly by the market as a whole, not at all by the opinion of one person who wasn't involved.
• wlievens 12y ago
  Technical superiority (which is subjective) is not really that connected to value.