Minecraft Has Sold Over 300 Million Copies (theverge.com) 31
Minecraft already has the distinction of being the bestselling video game of all time. Today, it adds more down to that particular feather in its cap with the announcement that it has sold a staggering 300 million copies. From a report: "As we approach the 15th anniversary, Minecraft remains one of the best-selling games of all time, with over 300 million copies sold, a milestone no one could have dreamed of when we were all placing our first blocks," Helen Chiang, head of Mojang Studios, said in a statement. Even the second bestselling video game of all time, Grand Theft Auto V, doesn't even come close to Minecraft's numbers, topping out at 185 million reported sales.
Re:Still to this day (Score:4, Insightful)
> I beat on things
Did this behavior start when you hit puberty by chance?
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You seem to be missing both the mining & crafting parts of the game, they can both be a lot of fun, hence the name of the game.
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Giant field of wheat. More bread than I know what to do with. Just to stay longer underground.
Plenty of stores of lose rock that just ends up tossed since I really don't need it for anything.
Plenty of iron to replace the tools I have.
I usually get to the point where I find some diamond and just quit. What I am suppose to do? I have the greatest thing I know of. All I can do is make holes faster.
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Depends on your goals and what you enjoy. It's entirely possible it's just not the game for you, which is fine too. Everybody has their preferences and likes/dislikes with games.
As far as Minecraft goes, it has a few different gameplay loops. There's a whole survival aspect where you build defenses to protect against bad guys. Maybe do that in interesting and unique places like the nether. There are bosses and an endgame as well for people to work towards.
Some people like redstone and making complex automat
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There's a whole survival aspect where you build defenses to protect against bad guys.
Dug a hole. Done
Maybe do that in interesting and unique places like the nether.
I think I have been there. Not sure
There are bosses and an endgame as well for people to work towards.
There is?
Some people like redstone and making complex automated machinery with it.
I can sometimes get doors to open when I step on plates.
Others enjoy the building
Cool something that is pain in the ass to show off to the friends I don't have. At least it is digital and doesn't take up much space. I regret asking for the Saturn V lego set for xmas one year.
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I think I have been there. Not sure
Doesn't seem like you're very interested in the game at all. No wonder you get bored and quit.
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My guess is you either quit playing eight years ago, you're trolling, or you've got a severe case of adult ADD.
This sounds about right. I use to play it a bit with my friend. Not much tho.
I download it on when I see stories like these come up to see what the fuss is about.
I never got it.
Then again, take away the Lego instructions and I am down to putting a flat 2x8 on top of a normal 2x4 and calling that a plane.
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I regret asking for the Saturn V lego set for xmas one year.
quote of the day lol
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Yes. If you combine an ender pearl with blaze powder it will make an eye of ender. Throw that, and it will move in the direction of the nearest stronghold. When you throw it and it just falls to the ground, mine down there and break into the stronghold. Find the end portal and fill it with 12 eye of enders. Then that will turn black to let you go to the end. There you need to kill the dragon to return to the overworld. To kil
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> I am really missing something from this game.
Playing the game. /s
On a more serious note, How Automation Can Enrich Your Game Experience [youtube.com]
Gnembon now works at Mojang so modding may get easier.
Numbers game (Score:2)
That's a nice comment and all, but sales figures are subject to some funny accounting practices.
For example, im not even sure how you measure sales these days. Minecraft on android and iphone remains a $7 purchase, so how many of those 300 million sales are mobile edition purchases?
Another thing that's interesting to consider is the revenue flows from the market place content. At this point, i wonder when they are going to make Minecraft free to play and sales figures become irrelevant. It would be interest
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what? I think you need to re-read the summary and evaluate your response.
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Even if they all were $7 that would still be $2.1B.
Tetris is #1 (Score:2)
According to some lists, Tetris is ahead of Minecraft by a significant margin (520 million copies sold). [gamespot.com] One of the variables in these lists is whether you include pack-in sales (a lot of Gameboys sold with Tetris back in the day).
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If you include games sold as part of a bundle, the top two are probably Minesweeper and Solitaire. Billions of copies were sold as part of the Windows game bundle.
A very apt summary (Score:2)
I found a review [youtube.com] a while ago that is still unmatched. It captures my sentiment for this game perfectly.
Especially where he compares it to building a model train set, a hobby you spend countless hours on that would feel a little less of a waste if you could just find someone to appreciate and praise it.
Maybe that's why there are probably more hours of video of various Minecraft worlds than there are ever going to be people spending those hours to watch them.
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Their heyday is probably past at this point, but for many years there were whole youtube channels and even entire creator networks devoted entirely to Minecraft content because of the sheer amount of hours watched of it. It took awhile to get going but a lot of stuff was appreciated and praised for a long time. I've seen some arguments made that Minecraft content was such a huge percentage of youtube consumption overall for awhile that it was a big contributor to the dominance that YT has today.
I doubt we'l
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Yeah, because MS Makes you buy it over and over (Score:2)
Bought Minecraft for the Xbox360. Bought it for the PC. Bought it again for each of my kids because the world decided kids need their own copies now instead of how it used to be where one FAMILY bought a game. Want to play Monopoly with 3 people? Go get 3 licenses plebs... Bought it again to get it on the Xbox One. Then bought the Java edition because I had family who couldn't play with my kids.
I AM DONE BUYING MINECRAFT ANYMORE! DONE!
Ripping off Inifiminer paid off /s (Score:2)
It is important to remember that games use other games as inspiration all the time. Notch credited Infinimer [wired.com] as the inspiration.
The redstone technical community REFUSING to release information on TNT duping until AFTER 1.