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Minecraft has been a huge success, but $250,000-a-day is a little misleading. The site was down for the last few days due to mentions from Penny Arcade and els

Minecraft has been a huge success, but $250,000-a-day is a little misleading. The site was down for the last few days due to mentions from Penny Arcade and elsewhere (PA ran two comics on Minecraft, which is insane exposure to a huge gaming audience). Notch turned the downtime into a free-to-play period, but you couldn't buy Minecraft while things were down. The $250k/day number actually represents a few days of sales pressure, but it's still awfully impressive...

RossM 16y ago
To add: in order to continue playing Minecraft after the free-to-play period you have to buy a subscription, however I agree with the idea there have been recent spikes as people do buy it. I read somewhere that Notch had accrued at least two million in PayPal but can't vouch that it's accurate.
- ptomato 16y ago
  Certainly not two million in PayPal all at once, but if you want to know how many copies he's sold the numbers are right here http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp and I don't think the price has been below €10.