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Talk about zombies: Minecraft has over 10 million users

by Jessica Conditt on Jul 1st 2011 6:30PM

Over 10 million people now live at least part-time in the mythical world of Minecraft, where the trees are green, the zombies are dumb and the dirt is sharp enough to cut you, fool.

Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of Minecraft, posted news of his growing minion army on his personal blog and twitter, and the game's official website proudly states on its Stats page that there are "10005777 registered users, of which 2674483 (26.72%) have bought[*] the game." If you still haven't joined the Minecraft militia, hurry and buy it now, for 25 percent off while it's still in beta mode, because we all know it won't stay that way forever.

Source: Notch, Minecraft, @notch

Tags: Minecraft, mojang, notch, pc

Reader Comments (25)

Bought it in Alpha and I'm still playing it. Best few bucks I spent on a video game, ever.

And don't forget to get wood, folks!

@JakeAuditore ,fool.

And I'll definitely stay a user of Minecraft to ensure Fortresscraft fails miserably.

Keep on keepin' on, Notch!

@Frostblade10

Fortrescraft is only $3 though, and this is $22 at the moment.

@Raffi256 Quality over quantity.

It'll be interesting to see what it costs when it's on Xbox this year. If it's an XBLA title, it would be the most expensive one yet. Unless it's released as a boxed game.

@Raffi256 It's been confirmed to be a XBLA title.

I'm one!

And yet he still can't hire more than two programmers and a team to write a port in native code? Son... I am dissapoint.

@Fascia

Yeah seriously, this is the only reason I keep the bloated, security hole-ridden Java runtime installed on my machine.

@Fascia Mojang has more than two programmers

Rofl joystiq deleting comments now?

@ChainSmoker nevermind that's weird..comments weren't showing up ..even refreshed 20 times lol

@ChainSmoker 20 times? On the topic of autistic kids...

@ChainSmoker

You're an idiot.

@ChainSmoker
....what? How about you shut up and don't make fun of autism/autistic kids. And go smoke like your user name implies.

What kind of idiot buys a game before it comes out?
Oh right, 10 million people did. Oh well, *Goes back to playing Minecraft*.

@Andrew12h 2.6 million bought it, dumbass. Next time don't skim

263 fps?

@AutobotIronhide

Watson plays Minecraft, too...

@FakeKevinButler you mad bro?

@ChainSmoker

Furious actually.

I think this is the first game that needs a health warning...

It's the most addictive game I've ever played.

I try to go on for an hour, and then before i realize several hours have lapsed.

@ChainSmoker

I don't find it offensive, because well it's the internet, but I do have autism, not to the extent I had when I was a child though.

You may need to find out what autism is though, before 'trying' to be clever, I think you meant Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which is very different to autism.

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Posted: Jul 1st 2011 6:36PM FakeKevinButler said

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