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The dollar amounts are not similar. Notch is earning a hell of a lot more and he's not in the US. He's making like $220k/day. Something like $70+ million total
by staunch 15y ago
The dollar amounts are not similar. Notch is earning a hell of a lot more and he's not in the US.
He's making like $220k/day. Something like $70+ million total sales.
- redthrowaway 15y agoI doubt that $70MM is sitting around in his paypal account, though. IIRC, he had something like $350k frozen.
- kenjackson 15y agoReally? Is there a source for that? Not that I don't believe you, but I'd love to cite this data myself. That's incredible.
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- ugh 15y agoMinecraft.net has a stats page: http://www.minecraft.net/stats http://www.minecraft.net/stats I’m pretty sure that someone somewhere on the web has recorded those numbers – but I’m too lazy to search right now. Calculating the average is something I can do, though: On January 12, 2011 Minecraft had sold one million copies. Since then Minecraft sold another 3.4 million copies in 345 days – that works out to an average of a little less than 10,000 copies per day. That works out to €150k daily revenue for 309 of those days (during beta, €15 per copy) and €190k daily revenue for the rest of the time (after the release, €20 per copy), resulting in a revenue around €50m for 2011.
- georgieporgie 15y agoHoly cow, seriously? Apparently, yes: http://texyt.com/minecraft+persson+notch+indie+game+success+00127 http://texyt.com/minecraft+persson+notch+indie+game+success+... At the end, they note that sales were settled in to about $100k/day in September 2010, from a relatively brief peak of $350k/day. Amazing numbers.
- lostsock 15y agoWell to be fair CK has made $83k / day so far... I doubt that it'll continue...