Minecraft sales top 100 million
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http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/2/11838036/minecraft-sales-100-million
>Microsoft acquired Minecraft maker Mojang nearly two years ago, and at the time it had sold more than 50 million copies across PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and other platforms. Microsoft is revealing today that Minecraft has now reached the 100 million sale milestone, having sold 53,000 copies per day during the course of 2016. It's a phenomenal achievement for a game that started off as a bedroom project, distributed initially as a Java applet on a web forum.
>Minecraft quickly captured the imagination of thousands of gamers who loved the indie game's concept of allowing players to shape an environment by crafting and building constructions out of blocks. It has spawned a giant community that creates replica objects and YouTube tips on how to play Minecraft that are regularly shared with millions of viewers.
Here's to 100 million more. Notch, you are our generation's genius.
What went so wrong with the game?
Remember the alpha/beta days?
>>339710053
>on a web forum
Congratz Notch, congratz Microsoft <3
>>339710053
Why does Ausfalua get a creeper on top?
>>339710146
>Remember when the game was worse in every single way?
Yep me too.
Lol?
>>339710281
They were destroyed.
>>339710053
Hunger bar killed minecraft for me
>>339710426
>They were destroyed.
HOLY SHIT MY SIDES
I remember when Notch was shilling it here back when it was played in the browser and had virtually no content. We called it a shitty Infiniminer/Brominer ripoff.
>>339710538
>shilling
No one who was on /v/ at that time uses buzzwords like this.
He used to give people free copies because they couldn't afford it. Notch was one of US. You were not.
>>339710662
Nigger, I'm talking about a time before the game was even sold. It was just a .jar file he uploaded.
>>339710378
Not him but the game was significantly better in Alpha/early Beta, before blatantly imbalanced and broken features such as hunger and whatever the fuck those villager """NPCs""" are even good for. Plus, the community went to complete since basically since the console versions of the game released (not trying to explicitly say there's a correlation with that, just that's when I felt the community took a nosedive)
>meanwhile the superior game Ace of Spades still hasn't gotten a good remake that actually has 1080P+ resolution
never ever
>>339710053
>Notch, you are our generation's genius.
For ruining a game with some shitty food system?
And I called microsoft stupid for giving 3 billiion cuckbux to notch
