Minecraft made $33 million in revenue so far
Minecraft creator Markus Persson has revealed that about 1.8 million people have bought Minecraft, leading to roughly $33 million in revenue.
We already had an inkling that the indie hit Minecraft has been financially successful. Just how successful, you may ask? The answer is somewhere around $33 million in revenue from 1.8 million users, reports Gamasutra.
Creator Markus "Notch" Persson responded to a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" question, saying the game sold roughly 800,000 in alpha for €9.95, then over 1 million beta versions at €14.95. A little math wizardry puts the total revenues at €23 million, or $33 million.
Persson notes that some is removed for PayPal and taxes, but he says "it's still a huge wad of money." At the same time, he isn't living too lavishly. "It all ends up in an account somewhere, and I try not to look at it. I get a normal salary these days for day to day stuff, but there's a big pile somewhere."
So now that Persson is an IGF award winner and a bona fide Richie Rich, he's in a good position to give advice to aspiring developers. "Start with just making games to get used to it," he said in the Reddit thread. "Focus on the details. What makes a jump animation feel good? What is a good main menu? Try to finish a few projects."
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replyComment on Minecraft made $33 million in revenue so far, by Steve Watts.
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Summary: Minecraft creator Markus Persson has revealed that about 1.8 million people have bought Minecraft, leading to roughly $33 million in revenue.
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What's up with these summaries? Are they random entries or a new thing you guys have started doing?
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a thousand to 1 maybe? plenty of indy games have sold this amount at this price, this guy's just doing a lot better cause it's just him.
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Ouch.
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I think a lot of people are making those posts because he isn't doing updates as often as he used to.
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Vacations aren't going to take themselves either: http://i53.tinypic.com/r73yps.png
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wtf, so he can build something better than you can even start *even when he takes 33% of his time off* is your point that you suck hairy nuts?
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This is what I don't get, why the fuck is Notch making a card game? I'm not even saying it's bad - but he needs to hammer this Minecraft franchise with content/merchandise the lot. Not stretch his efforts to unproven properties.
He may be a one hit wonder, but his one hit could stretch multiple games and make a shitload of money.-
It's not like he needs money. The dude is flush with cash. Not only does it make complete business sense to create a new IP to generate more revenue streams, but being able to do something else as well is a huge relief when it comes to mental health.
Also.. he's not really involved in the card game from what I understand.-
How does it make any business sense at all? You have an IP, you need to build the brand. Look at Rovio with Angry birds.
Scrolls will be a nothing game, it will not make the money that Minecraft can.
The dude is flush with cash yes, and maybe that's ok for him - but he could be building an empire out of this.-
Who says he wants to build an empire, though?
Hell, I don't know why he even started a company. Seems like he'd be perfectly happy just pumping out fun little indie games and living comfortably for the rest of his life.
God knows I would.
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They are already trying to embrace the modding community. Soon there will be a new mod interface so implementing mods will be a breeze. Plus notch stated that they want to use more mods people have made directly into the game, but they just can't steal the code and say it is theirs. He is working on a way to have mods submitted with some legal option of "we aren't stealing your mod, you are giving it to use to implement in the game" kinda thing.
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http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/thumb/7/7c/Boo.png/400px-Boo.png
Does he even have The Nether in SMP yet?
That fucker.-
I wouldn't mind if the Nether was removed completely. As it stands right now, it's just a failed experiment.
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Good for him. Works hard on a game, people buy the game, gets rich, takes some time off. I find it humorous that people act like he owes them something. I'd bet an overwhelming portion of the people complaining have gotten better bang for buck ratio out of minecraft than most games they buy. I'd also bet that most of the complainers would have worked even less than he has, or dropped their gloves entirely after the first few million dollars.
But hey, go team entitlement, go!-
im pretty sure a large portion of the more insane whiners simply have aspergers and/or zero perspective.
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