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So he's sold 60k prepurchases at EUR 9.95 in a little over two weeks?! Holy cow. Found some stats - http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp http://www.minecraft.ne

• drtse4 16y ago
  This game is nearly everyday on the front-page of reddit/digg/etc... , and a lot of people are making youtube videos of their creations. With all this web coverage he doesn't need to spend money in advertising :). A game that makes people build something (even if useless, it's still a game) and make it easy to share, instead of bovinely click around like in Zynga's games. Recipe for success?
• jakewalker 16y ago
  Prepurchases? Pretty sure that could be the problem - - PayPal doesn't permit charging someone for goods that aren't going to ship immediately.
  • DavidPP 16y ago
    It's not exactly a prepurchase since for 13$ you get access to the alpha version.
• petercooper 16y ago
  Yeah, it blew up on Reddit a couple of weeks ago. For some reason the story didn't take hold over here on HN. This is why I read both sites - often you get great stuff over there that doesn't make it over the front page karma barrier here because not enough people read /new ;-)