[geezerjay]

> Suddenly paying $2.5 Billion in late 2014 starts to make some sense.

You mean expecting that a game that's already a half a dozen years old will keep increasing its revenue for a decade straight?

Does that make any sense whatsoever?

[ameister14]

No, I mean expecting that a game of this type that has more than doubled in revenue for the past two years to continue to be profitable makes sense. As it turns out, this was an excellent bet, as their next quarters saw revenue increases in the hundreds of millions.

Two years later, they continued to increase sales of the game, selling about 20 million copies in 2016.

It worked.