20 Million Minecraft Fans Can't Be Wrong

Greg Tito

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20 Million Minecraft Fans Can't Be Wrong



Notch waxes trivial with the latest stat update to his Minecraft empire.

20 million is not a small number. 8 million people live within the limits of New York City. World of Warcraft had 12.5 million concurrent users at its peak. As of this weekend, Minecraft has more registered users than both of those combined. Of course, not all of those are paying customers with Markus "Notch" Persson reporting that only about 4.6 million people have paid for a copy. Still, 20 million registered users for an independently developed building game from Sweden is nothing to sneeze at.

After Notch announced the milestone on Twitter, he decided to go a little crazy with his comparisons. "Minecraft now has 20 million registered users. At 70 kg each, that's 25% of the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza," he said on Saturday [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/158311410600906753].

"20 million people produce enough heat energy to power a Flux Capacitor, but there are significant logistic problems with doing so," Notch added [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/158312964972228609].

"At 4 liters per day, it would take a million years to drink 20 million liquidized humans," he continued [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/158314469364219904]. "Okay, I'll stop now."

Perhaps the most important nugget of information to be gleaned is a simple percentage. "23.23 percent also bought the game. Extrapolating, we find that 76.77 percent of the internet will register for things they don't want," said Notch. [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/158312502164324355]

Wise words. Given the number of forums and websites I've signed up for with no intention of handing over any money, that ratio might actually be much, much higher.

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Lancer873

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Aww... I kinda wish that he had kept going with those facts. That was kind of interesting.
And gratz to Mojang for another big milestone! One thing though: 20 million is approximately half a million less than 8 million plus 12.5 million, so you can't really say Minecraft had more than both combined at the time.
 

Blunderboy

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As point of fact 20 Million people can be wrong. :p
They're greatly out numbered by the remaining Six Billion, Nine hundred and eighty thousand people not playing Minecraft.
Before anyone quotes be in an attempt to start a flame war, I am joking. Well done to Notch. Minecraft isn't for me but he's done well. I may not agree personally with his rabid army of fan boys ready to leap to his defence at the slightest perceived insult, but good luck to him.
 

Steve the Pocket

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Greg Tito said:
Perhaps the most important nugget of information to be gleaned is a simple percentage. "23.23 percent also bought the game. Extrapolating, we find that 76.77 percent of the internet will register for things they don't want," said Notch. [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/158312502164324355]
Funny how he didn't reach the conclusion that over three quarters of Minecraft users pirated the game.
 

Lancer873

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Steve the Pocket said:
Greg Tito said:
Perhaps the most important nugget of information to be gleaned is a simple percentage. "23.23 percent also bought the game. Extrapolating, we find that 76.77 percent of the internet will register for things they don't want," said Notch. [https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/158312502164324355]
Funny how he didn't reach the conclusion that over three quarters of Minecraft users pirated the game.
"Pirated" copies wouldn't require registration, since the game verifies via login information. Most pirates would simply use the login of someone else and play in offline mode. Also note that registered people who haven't bought the game can still play Minecraft Classic. It sucks compared to survival or even modern creative, but it has some dedicated multiplayer servers complete with an online server list, so there's still a reason to register without buying it.
 

Treblaine

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Greg Tito said:
After Notch announced the milestone on Twitter, he decided to go a little crazy with his comparisons. "Minecraft now has 20 million registered users. At 70 kg each, that's 25% of the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza,"
I think he is being very generous there on our average weight there.
 

NLS

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A flux capacitor you say? Where we're going, we won't need minecarts.