Minecraft Unseats COD as Most Played Game Over Xbox Live

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Minecraft Unseats COD as Most Played Game Over Xbox Live



Minecraft is the first Xbox Live Arcade game to top all online activity.

In case you hadn't heard, a lot of people like to play Minecraft of an evening. Once a PC gaming independent darling, the building simulator that sprung from the mind of Notch has also found a large following on a console as an Xbox Live Arcade game. Even though the code on Xbox Live is older than the PC version - build 1.8.2 as of last week's update - the convenience of playing Minecraft from your couch, as well as the ability to play cooperatively both online and with split-screen, has enchanted players. In Larry Hryb's weekly update on Xbox Live statistics, Minecraft topped the list for unique users' online activity over Xbox Live, beating out AAA titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, FIFA 13, Black Ops and Borderlands 2.

To our knowledge, last week's list marks the first time an Xbox Live Arcade game took the number one spot for all online activity. Not only that, but Minecraft took the top spot in Live Arcade sales last week too, beating out the popular new Walking Dead episode from Telltale.

Here are the relevant lists, in case you were interested in getting the full context:


Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles (based on UU's)

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
EA Sports FIFA Soccer 13
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Borderlands 2
Halo: Reach
Battlefield 3
Modern Warfare 2
Madden NFL 13
NBA 2K13
Happy Wars
Skyrim
Gears of War 3
RESIDENT EVIL 6
GTA IV
FIFA 12
Forza Motorsport 4
Dishonored
EA SPORTS NHL13
Halo

Top Arcade Titles (Full Versions purchased)


Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
The Walking Dead
Sonic Adventure 2
Trials Evolution
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Worms Revolution
Counter-Strike: GO
Pinball FX2
Zombie Driver HD
Trials HD
Castle Crashers
Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise
Mark of the Ninja
Magic 2013
Nexuiz
Jet Set Radio
Toy Soldiers: Cold War
Fruit Ninja Kinect
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Toy Soldiers






To sum up, Minecraft is still selling like freaking hotcakes and people love to play it. That is all.

Source: Major Nelson [http://majornelson.com/2012/10/24/live-activity-for-week-of-october-15/]

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Wow. Someone has finally unseated Call of Duty from it's throne...and it's an Indie game. Notch...one word
http://cdn.planetminecraft.com/files/resource_media/screenshot/1138/win_497530.jpg

Minecraft was kinda boring me, but now that creativity mode was added, I should probably give it another spin. On a side note, Halo Reach has more people than Battlefield. YAY! :)
 
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This pleases me.
Yeeees. Gooooood. Don't shoot, just craft.

So maybe we'll see MW3 even lower on the next one?
Please?
No?
Oh fine.
 
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juyunseen said:
This pleases me.
Yeeees. Gooooood. Don't shoot, just craft.

So maybe we'll see MW3 even lower on the next one?
Please?
No?
Oh fine.
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The next one will be post-Black Ops 2, so yes but not in the way you're hoping for.
 
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Well, as a Halo fan who has bought Minecraft and the first Skin pack:


Seriously, I don't know what is better: That CoD has been dethroned or that it was beaten by something at 1/2 to 1/3 of the launch price!
 
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9thRequiem said:
juyunseen said:
This pleases me.
Yeeees. Gooooood. Don't shoot, just craft.

So maybe we'll see MW3 even lower on the next one?
Please?
No?
Oh fine.
Click to expand...
The next one will be post-Black Ops 2, so yes but not in the way you're hoping for.
Click to expand...
Well I just can't win can I?

A part of me wants to point out that it'll also be post- Halo 4, but... yeah, after Reach's inability to take the first spot, we wont be seeing any change here...
 
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That's impressive, but I am more surprised as to how ME3 isn't even in the top-20 with the new multiplayer DLC out and everything. Guess the shitty random pack system turned everyone away once they remembered how shitty it was >.>
 
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I'm looking forward to the upcoming announcement from EA's CEO, about how he'll no longer green-light any game that doesn't have an interface for gathering materials and building things out of them. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119449-EA-Turns-Its-Back-on-Single-Player-Games]
 
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DVS BSTrD said:
We all knew Notch had the top pick.
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I always enjoy picking out your comments. You, sir, are truly a diamond in the rough.

OT: Everybody like Minecraft. I like Minecraft, you like Minecraft, PC gamers like Minecraft, console gamers like Minecraft... Everybody likes Minecraft!

I don't particularly care about the fact that CoD has been 'unseated'; I'm just happy that I will get to see more funny videos like this [http://ah.roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=4846&v=more]. Remember, internet, your kill montage may be great, but it will never match the beautiful madness that comes from giving a bunch of people tools to reshape the world.
 
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