{"id":12389,"date":"2011-06-14T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"minecraft-reaches-2-5-million-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12389-minecraft-reaches-2-5-million-sales","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft reaches 2.5 million sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft creator Markus Persson (aka Notch) has triumphantly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/notch\/status\/80215303572815872\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> that the game has surpassed 2.5 million sales. &ldquo;2.5 million sales! That&#8217;s as much as Diablo 1 and FarCry, according to Wikipedia.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to some <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/11143-Minecraft-banks-million.html\" target=\"_self\">rudimentary math<\/a> based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/gjrf4\/iama_indie_game_developer_who_made_a_commercially\/c1o1ox6\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit thread<\/a> in which Notch participated, the game has probably raked in over US$33 million (over R223 million). Not bad for an indie title that started out as a one-man project.<\/p>\n<p>The game is still in beta production, most recently being updated to version 1.6.6. <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/12351-Minecraft-Beta-will-the-adventure-update.html\" target=\"_self\">Minecraft beta version 1.7<\/a> is on the horizon, promising some significant adventure-centric updates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12317-Minecraft-Xbox-wont-straight-port.html\" target=\"_self\">Minecraft is also heading to the Xbox 360<\/a>; we&rsquo;re still waiting for more information on this.<\/p>\n<p>If you still haven&rsquo;t hopped on the Minecraft bandwagon, have a look at the video below to see if it tickles your fancy. While the game is in beta it is on sale for a 25% reduced price of Euro15. All future updates will be available to beta purchasers.<\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"340\" height=\"207\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m_yqOoUMHPg&amp;hl=sv_SE&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"340\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m_yqOoUMHPg&amp;hl=sv_SE&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14725-Minecraft-surpasses-2.5-million-sales\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Minecraft reaches 2.5 million sales\">Minecraft reaches 2.5 million sales<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie sensation Minecraft continues to rake in the cash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}