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Author of the article in question here. Are you sure? The articles you refer to are just after the "PayPal Freezes $750K in MineCraft Dev's Account" news. This
by koonsolo 12y ago
Author of the article in question here. Are you sure? The articles you refer to are just after the "PayPal Freezes $750K in MineCraft Dev's Account" news. This last part was of course, spread by Notch himself (another example of awesome marketing).
But let's agree, by then, Minecraft had already made $750K, which seems quite successful to me. And this was all before Minecraft hit the major new sites. Seems I left this part out of the article (I should probably update it).
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/10/paypal-freezes-minecraft-devs-600k-euros/ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/10/paypal-freezes-mi..., http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103385-PayPal-Freezes-750K-in-MineCraft-Devs-Account http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103385-PayPal-Free...
- realgirl 12y agoI stand corrected. :) Yeah, I would've mentioned something about the penny arcade article at least. I don't remember seeing anything about Notch or Minecraft in general discussion etc. until the comic went live. For that matter, I'd be very interested in seeing a graph of Minecraft's earnings from the early days, I imagine the spike was insane. Minor edit: Yeah I would've mentioned something about how the marketing he did reached a self-sustaining cycle. Where suddenly the big spin about minecraft wasn't just that it was a good indie game, but an unusually successful good indie game.