Minecraft dev's profits spawn new, six-person studio

Yay! I love to see this games creator get closer to finishing this already amazing game!

Minecraft will NEVER be complete, Joystiq.

Awesome, I can't wait to see what these guys develop.

so was there an update today? because the site is down again :(

Wow... I never realised just how influential Penny Arcade was until now.

That's pretty amazing, just last week he was a one-man team. Though his 300,000 rake-in-age was pretty impressive, I hope it's enough to sustain a 500% increase in paychecks.

Good for him. I would have just spent that extra profit on hookers.

Ahem...

World of Minecraft?

Shit, game is like cocaine... Makin cities, RP-ing, just... shit...

it's all good. worth the 13 bucks and change.

I remember when there was no Alpha testing. It's fun to watch a game grow.

Hopefully one of them will make the game not crash during large TNT explosions. Until then, I'm having a ton of fun shaping explosions using adminium. By creating a huge box of it in the sky (with an open bottom) I can basically blow a targeted (and enormous) hole in the ground. If I do it in the right pattern, I can write words and what not, which is not quite as awesome as it may sound (even if I now have a gigantic "FFFUUUU" carved in the ground)

I think I'm going to go play some more while my hands recover from trying to replace the HDD on my PS3 (I've been unsuccessful in my attempts thus far. Damn these screws.)

While I think charging for an Alpha edition of a game is kind of stupid...I have to say this guy has definitely made some people think about what they are doing (or at least I hope he has)...I mean look at the people throwing millions upon millions of dollars at franchises that end up missing the mark (*cough* MW2 *cough*). This guy takes his time, effort and money and creates something that tons of people love. And sure, you may credit people like Penny-Arcade or Seananners (one of the very popular YouTubers who posted some videos right before the game exploded) but who cares? That just proves the poster who said; if you make a game that is fun and awesome you will be rewarded.

How much does this guy make without a bunch of stupid DRM BS that ends up screwing over half its users?

Anyways I am glad to see this is going somewhere and I hope more developers use this as motivation so we see more awesome games. Cause I for one and tired of the same old rinse and repeat crap...EX; Hey guys, we need to make some money...Oh yeah...How about we just throw some zombies in our game...That should sell right? So go Minecraft!

Wait, what? a game thats not finished is profiting?

People have too much money..

He's brave. I'd take the money and run.

The extra people are only there to free up Notch to do some more coding.

I bought the game a few days ago, and it's so much fun.

...I realize what it is, it's fcking lego!

and it's better lego imo that the lego games, it's so much fun, i love it.

and i really really hope that the graphics are intentional.

the worlds that mine craft generates are so beautiful and full of richness!

if you could add few diversions and distractions it will be the best game ever made

NO STORY PLEASE!

@Billy Taebo Blanks Well considering the only way you can get this game is online and after your first play you can play offline >.>

@ZonChau Yeah, on the free-to-play weekend, I tried it out... and was able to play it offline for the rest of the week and probably forever.

Decided to buy it regardless because Notch deserved every bit of that €10... er... $13.51231something...

Selling it cheap for such a deep game really is where it came down to I though.

@Billy Taebo Blanks Complete rip-off of WHAT previous project?

@ZaxCG2

He's talking about Infiniminer, though at this point it's not even fair to compare the two. Minecraft has come so amazingly far from where it started. Just watching videos of the two games in their current states you can see just how silly it is to call it a ripoff.

I