Thread: Minecraft Game Creator Makes $100K A Day

"Developed by a single over the past year -- Swedish programmer Markus Persson -- Minecraft has nearly one million registered users.

"The premium version, which costs around $14, has so far earned Persson more than $800,000. About $100,000 of that has flooded in over the past 24 hours, according to a message on his website which claims it is now shifting more than 10,000 paid versions of the game every day."
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Minecraft is also talked about at 1:40 here:

Originally Posted by Rickson9

Something that makes good money that non-gamers wouldn't be able to capitalize on

Making games for people to play is it's own beast. The ones that have a lot of heart put into them often stand out from the crowd, but even many of those fail to really manage to become popular enough / get properly monitized. There is another game I'd like to know how well it's doing, because I've been playing it off and on for a few years. Deadfrontier.. Apparently in my absence they've been moving on to 3D using unity3d instead of adobe flash, and will be producing some press media... Their current press information still cites the older company, which has a website that seems not to have been updated in 3 years.

But that's just getting sidetracked... From what I've seen recently, there has been a lot of debate as to how long it should be taking Notch to set up his business. Seems many fans are crazy enough to expect weekly updates, and him to get all the hiring/legalities/office space (he turned down a place because he doesn't want to commit to a 3 year lease) etc. In order within a few months... They (his commenter's) also keep referring to it as a small business.

Anyway, I'm curious how he'll continue to monetize once the game's sales have trickled down. Will he be planning major expansions to sell? Or is part of the point of hiring and starting up a 'small business' to produce entirely new game assets?

... Hey Jazz? If you read this, maybe you could ask your little brother what he likes about the game for us? I'm wondering if the game itself was the main selling point for him, or it's popularity.

Sidenote: Runescape was pretty special when it was released. Free, 3D mmorpg in your browser. Plus it was "different", and by that I mean the kiddies were too young to know the gameplay is a de-evolution from the everquest clones back to Ultima Online.