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Cryomatrix
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Hello,
If you guys won a 1 billion straight cash (after all taxes taken out and whatever) what would you do? Would you keep it all? Build a video game company? What would you do?
Basically, if I won 1 billion in straight cash (US dollars), I'd see about buying an american NFL football franchise (despite the fact they are all in the billions for value). I'd see if i can buy a 51% share into one. Then i'd treat it like my own game and do with the team what I want.
Or . . . the reality is, i'd probably give away hundreds of millions but then I'd either establish a videogame company or see If I can buy one. Perhaps, Ubisoft, Zenimax, Bethesda, maybe CCP. I'd see what I can do with their games with a ton of cash flow.
I detest mobile games as shallow addicting money grabs, so it would likely be PC only. I'd probably try to make the best MMO ever. But it would be a totally unique experience. Well, i'd also get the Star Wars IP if they'd allow it and make it a starwars game like a cross between a sandbox on the planet and EVE.
I'd also invest in making a TV series based in the Star Wars IP, but I doubt Disney would allow that. If they don't, I'd sponsor a TV show with GoT budget but in a different book series. Perhaps, Forgotten Realms, wheel of time (even though I hated the books) or something else.
The likely conclusion is that I'd lose hundreds of millions of dollars, but it would still be fun. I enjoy life as it is, I don't really need a billion dollars, so if I lost 99.5% of it, I wouldn't really care because the 5 million after it, is enough to make me happy.
So what would you do? Thanks for listening. . . .
Sincerely,
Cryomatrix
PS: I also made this thread because I couldn't possibly care less about the true definition of an MMO, I don't even see why any person cares, just play the game if you like it or not. Leave definitions to semantic blowhards in the academic world.
PS: I don't think GoT is the best series ever, I think it has 2 things that are unique that I don't know why other sci-fi shows don't follow.
A) 1st unique thing is the huge budget.
2nd unique thing is that there is no clear line of delineation between good and evil. There are only two polarizing figures and everyone else is somewhere in between.
I just hate books in which the evil side is clear and the good side is clear. The reality is that both sides are always the "good side" as they see themselves. They always see the other side as "evil".
If you guys won a 1 billion straight cash (after all taxes taken out and whatever) what would you do? Would you keep it all? Build a video game company? What would you do?
Basically, if I won 1 billion in straight cash (US dollars), I'd see about buying an american NFL football franchise (despite the fact they are all in the billions for value). I'd see if i can buy a 51% share into one. Then i'd treat it like my own game and do with the team what I want.
Or . . . the reality is, i'd probably give away hundreds of millions but then I'd either establish a videogame company or see If I can buy one. Perhaps, Ubisoft, Zenimax, Bethesda, maybe CCP. I'd see what I can do with their games with a ton of cash flow.
I detest mobile games as shallow addicting money grabs, so it would likely be PC only. I'd probably try to make the best MMO ever. But it would be a totally unique experience. Well, i'd also get the Star Wars IP if they'd allow it and make it a starwars game like a cross between a sandbox on the planet and EVE.
I'd also invest in making a TV series based in the Star Wars IP, but I doubt Disney would allow that. If they don't, I'd sponsor a TV show with GoT budget but in a different book series. Perhaps, Forgotten Realms, wheel of time (even though I hated the books) or something else.
The likely conclusion is that I'd lose hundreds of millions of dollars, but it would still be fun. I enjoy life as it is, I don't really need a billion dollars, so if I lost 99.5% of it, I wouldn't really care because the 5 million after it, is enough to make me happy.
So what would you do? Thanks for listening. . . .
Sincerely,
Cryomatrix
PS: I also made this thread because I couldn't possibly care less about the true definition of an MMO, I don't even see why any person cares, just play the game if you like it or not. Leave definitions to semantic blowhards in the academic world.
PS: I don't think GoT is the best series ever, I think it has 2 things that are unique that I don't know why other sci-fi shows don't follow.
A) 1st unique thing is the huge budget.
2nd unique thing is that there is no clear line of delineation between good and evil. There are only two polarizing figures and everyone else is somewhere in between. I just hate books in which the evil side is clear and the good side is clear. The reality is that both sides are always the "good side" as they see themselves. They always see the other side as "evil".
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You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
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- Spend 25% - house, cars, holidays etc
- Save 25% - in case I fuck up, would be nice to have some decent cash in reserve
- Invest 50%
Whilst designing an MMO is my dream job, it's still a job so I think if I won $1b I probably wouldn't be arsed about doing it. There are so many other things I want to do in life that I would suddenly be able to do with that much money.That said, I've got $0.5b to invest and some of that I would be buying businesses with. I would definitely be tempted to invest or buy a company like CSE and get them to experiment with some mechanics I've been designing (aura-based tanking with collision detection and group formations). I wouldn't want to interfere with existing projects and I wouldn't take a lead in the new project - whilst I'm a developer and a project manager, I wouldn't presume to tell the experts how to do their job - but I would definitely be an irritating backseat driver!
You'd be surprised how easy it is to blow through that amount of money... hell, my parents went through a million dollars in medical expenses alone in one year.
We live in a world in which a trillion dollars is now considered a lot of money, not billions. By the time some of our kids retire, a trillion will be worth what a million is today... not much.
You can also do that with a LOT less. Looking it up, the median household income in the U.S. was just over 55K in 2016.
Of course it depends on where you live but with several million + and living off the interest one would make much more than that.
Just make sure you have good insurance as well as long term care insurance once you reach your 50's.
I strongly suspect that "not retiring" will not yield anything even close to a billion for most people.
and for "most" people, (especially because they don't save a lot) they might not even break a million over their lives (
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First, I would be in shock at actually winning.
Then, I would have no clue what to actually spend it on.
House is paid for, car is paid for, only work part time (self employed) as we do not really need the cash.
So I would probably end up investing in something to do with future tech, just for shits and giggles.
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I live on a somewhat rural island. I would start buying up the property around me. Turn my 7 1/2 acres into a lot more.
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First purchase would be a nice house somewhere here in north east USA, nothing crazy just something with some woodlands and a huge garage for my:
Bugatti Chiron
Koenigsegg Agera RS
Pagani Huayra BC
Id spend my time driving through and exploring the most diverse and beautiful country in the world, USA (obviously that's my personal opinion).
The only charities I'd donate to are animal rescue and care facilities here and internationally.
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I don't believe in retiring, my hope is that my death and retirement will be simultaneous (which would happen if I die young), but the hope is to make it the 80's before I hope to die. Oh well, 44 more years to go.
My principle with the 1 billion is that i'd make sure to keep like 10ish million that I don't touch, maybe invest 50 m personally, then give away or blow the rest. I do think winning that much would have a chance at making life not that much fun.
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Before that, I'd get some medical problems fixed that limit my gaming.
Once settled in to my new comfy life, I'd probably then use money to commission useful and interesting open souce projects. Instead of the usual "gee I wish program X had this feature, whine whine." I'd be able to contact the author and say, "If you add this feature, I will pay you this much." Or I could go on various (Linux) forums and say things like "I'd like someone to write a <insert game name here> clone native to Linux. I will pay this much."
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I'd buy my loft in Cambridge (MA), but before I did anything I'd hire a lawyer and and set up a Foundation. I would have to do this because in MA you have to give your name for any lottery winnings. In order to still be anonymous you can put it in a Foundation and be the manager of it and still be anonymous.
Then a new Classical Guitar, new Harp, and essentially live off the interest, travel, and just enjoy life.
I wouldn't hire anyone for calls and the like.
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The thing that you have to understand about lottery winnings is that they're basically cursed. If you win the lottery, you'll have fourth cousins twice removed that you didn't even know you had and probably don't coming out of the woodwork asking for money. Friends, relatives, co-workers, and random hangers-on will constantly beg you for money, at all hours of the day and no matter where you go. You'll get suicide threats and all manner of sob stories to try to get money out of you. It will not stop until you die, even if the money runs out first.
And why shouldn't they beg? After all, you've established yourself as someone with a ton of money and no clue how to manage it. You demonstrated the latter by playing the lottery in the first place and the former by having the misfortune of winning it. The only way to truly win the lottery is not to play.