[karaterobot]

This doesn't make sense. They bought Minecraft 8 years ago, and it's grown by an order of magnitude since then. It's a huge cash cow for them. In what way is that consistent with the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy from 26 years ago, when they had an entirely different leadership team and business model? How is this not just a dumb move on their part, and actually part of some master plan to ... what... lose money?

[tomrod]

How many more licenses will be purchased -- and how much can they make from the lifetime value of Realms subscribers?

Seems like the beancounters won this one.