Minecraft Sells Like Sexy Hotcakes
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I'm glad to hear he's reinvesting the money into the game and kicking it into a full production, start up company (he's got more money than most start-ups can borrow, so he's in a good place!) Adding a few more team members to the project should increase production speed and also allow him to do more things with the game than he could when it was just him. Besides that though, I hope he invests a good chunk of that into a retirement fund and a few toys. If you can make $7 mil in a year by yourself, you deserve to spend 1 or 2% of that on yourself. ^_~Tom Goldman said:
very cool! I love hearing the stories where the little guy makes a fuck-ton of cash. Or course now that he has he is no longer the little guy, he is an evil corporation that crushes little guys beneath his powerful mighty feet like the worms that they are!! MUUUHAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! THE POWER THE POWER THE...
whats that?
Taxes?...oh...never mind
whats that?
Taxes?...oh...never mind
Damn that's a lot... I'd invest some of that in a stick to go and beat those 12 year olds that keep saying he is lazy and needs to do more work and release more updates on it. I doubt any of those people have ever even seen a line of code in their life.
7 million dollars!?!?! Thats great and all, but he is still making a loss due to the fact the actual price of the game is reduced until the game's official best and complete version is released. So if alot of people buy now then he is not going to make that much more when the actual price is used and only a few people buy it.
I'm not trying to be a pessimistic dick here but...
I played the game and honestly I don't get the big deal
It's not "bad" by any means at all
it's just rather... "grind'y" and "pointless"
but hey as far as grind-quest time-sinks go I actually liked THIS better then Red Dead Redemption
again I'm not trying to be rude or anything and I'm glad Notch is selling like this but my main concern is
What will happen when the hype boom finally dies? (Like Brawl... WoW... CoD...)
Only the truly obsessive will continue to play it trying to make sure they "GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR" (or at least pretend to)
in all honesty, I'd pay $10-$15 for the final copy, depending on how it turns out
but keep in mind I'm comparing this to other indie games that are rather pointless... At least beat hazard was actiony, this is like a 3D Runescape with a Lego Fetish
in short
Great Game- but over hyped (because it's indie probably)
Hope the maker can cope if there's a die out
Hope he manages to get the full version onto Steam- THAT will help with sales
I played the game and honestly I don't get the big deal
It's not "bad" by any means at all
it's just rather... "grind'y" and "pointless"
but hey as far as grind-quest time-sinks go I actually liked THIS better then Red Dead Redemption
again I'm not trying to be rude or anything and I'm glad Notch is selling like this but my main concern is
What will happen when the hype boom finally dies? (Like Brawl... WoW... CoD...)
Only the truly obsessive will continue to play it trying to make sure they "GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR" (or at least pretend to)
in all honesty, I'd pay $10-$15 for the final copy, depending on how it turns out
but keep in mind I'm comparing this to other indie games that are rather pointless... At least beat hazard was actiony, this is like a 3D Runescape with a Lego Fetish
in short
Great Game- but over hyped (because it's indie probably)
Hope the maker can cope if there's a die out
Hope he manages to get the full version onto Steam- THAT will help with sales
I feel like I've arrived late to the party. What the fuck is Minecraft? I know my distaste of downloading anything has meant I miss out on some of the 'major' new titles but seriously, why is everyone going on about this game?
Is it because it's new? Everyone loved Portal when it first came out and though I liked it when I played it, playing it after the hype and about three years had passed I can't really label it even as one of my best games ever.
Soon Minecraft will descend into meme territory, at which point everyone, (especially people on this site) will despise it, loathe it, and ridicule anyone who admits to thinking it's worth it, and I want it registered that I called it here first.
Is it because it's new? Everyone loved Portal when it first came out and though I liked it when I played it, playing it after the hype and about three years had passed I can't really label it even as one of my best games ever.
Soon Minecraft will descend into meme territory, at which point everyone, (especially people on this site) will despise it, loathe it, and ridicule anyone who admits to thinking it's worth it, and I want it registered that I called it here first.
Ok, I thought minecraft was a game that wasn't very popular i thought myself that it only sold something like 3000 copies...but 500,000? WOW that's a lot of minecraft going around.
One important thing for me was that he doesn't rip off European customers. He does the exchange rate between Euro and Dollar properly.
I bought it a month ago, eagerly awaiting the Halloween patch.
I bought it a month ago, eagerly awaiting the Halloween patch.
Notch needs to send Adam Montoya (Seananners on YouTube) a check for some cash. Each of his minecraft videos has 300,000+ views and is why I bought it and I love. He makes it so fun! Also I'm very excited for the direction minecraft is going. Hopefully notch will get more time to listen to community. I'm pumped for multiplayer! Like widespread online