Thats pretty crazy. over 15k USD
He makes about €172,493 in sales a day (source: http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp). $15,000 is relatively nothing to him.
Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21
by bradtgmurray on Saturday August 20, 2011 @04:56PM
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He makes a lot of money, therefore he should throw money into a fire.
Snarky remarks aside...
The cost estimator basically says the incremental cost is $0.27/hour. That's pretty expensive for what is, in this case, basically bare streaming infrastructure (livestream adds some value, but not much for this particular use case).
The essential functionality could be easily replicated on e.g. Amazon EC2 at less than half, maybe even 1/3rd, the incremental cost even as a one-off thing.
Even now, as a not-particularly-wealthy person, I'm often willing to pay extra for convenience, but I just don't see ever being willing to pay 3x the cost of doing it myself for a non-mission-critical application, especially when there are even cheaper options like twitch.
Re:Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21
by jonursenbach on Saturday August 20, 2011 @03:05PM
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Holy shit.
Enter "mojang" there to see the cost.