A bit of honing in on the news as kotaku's story isn't entirely there. Minecraft has over 16M registered users, of which >4M have purchased the game. Neither f

A bit of honing in on the news as kotaku's story isn't entirely there. Minecraft has over 16M registered users, of which >4M have purchased the game. Neither figure is a firm representation of active players however. Minecraft receives roughly 10,000 new sales every day(at 15 euros a pop), so we can generally assume that there is a large, if rotating, pool of active players. Additionally, while the game is seeing the 1.0, it's far from finished. This is more of a formality for running out of time before the booked-well-in-advance launch venue. The "adventure update" (originally planned for the 1.7 beta) has been sidelined for the moment on account of the minecon launch. Instead the game now features a boss fight and an ending. The developers (notch/jeb) have kept an active voice in the community and have made it known that there is still much more content on the way, including what I assume to be the completion of the adventure update, and possibly other game modes and/or more advanced pre-built content being generated into maps. While I feel the game isn't "done" or "ready", it's still a reasonably nice time filler, even if it's ideology has an existential crisis.