Yesterday (16 October 2011) Indie developers, Mojang, celebrated their first birthday.
And what a way to celebrate – with the announcement that Minecraft has passed 15 million users.
Who’d have thought an open-world, 8-bit indie game initially developed by a single man would surpass 15 million registered players within under three years of going into development?
Well that’s exactly what Minecraft has done, with creator Markus “Notch” Persson proudly announcing over the weekend, “Holy moly, we reached 15 million registered users. :-O omg”.
The statistics tab on Minecraft.net reports that there are 15,088,126 registered Minecraft users, of which 3,819,920 (25.32%) have purchased the game.
In the last 24 hours, 44,764 people have registered and 10,072 have bought the game.
It’s kind of crazy when you take into account that the game hasn’t even launched properly yet, and is scheduled to go gold next month.
Notch is expected to implement a “code freeze” in two days, which means there will not be any more changes made to the game between now and its release.
Minecraft is currently available on PC and Mac, although it is heading for Xbox Live and there is also Minecraft – Pocket Edition which is available for Android 2.2+ phones.
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