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I don't know where this website pulled their numbers from, but I think they're incorrect. According to Minecraft's stats[1], in the last 24 hours 12,025 people bought the game, times 9.95 Euro = 119,499.50 Euro, which is a bit less than $163k/day in American dollars. [1] http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp
It's kinda sad that the Dwarf Fortress creator only earns about 2k a day. It shows what some business savvy will do for you. Then ago, the DF creator is passionatr about his vision, so who knows.
Notch's earnings are exceptional. He is probably the only indie game developer (or one of a very small group) making $350K a day on his own.
Or 10.5 million copies a year. To tell the truth its pretty shocking how minecraft has taken off...the guy will probably end up making 100 million off the game. And if he sticks to iterating it, it might end up making over a billion over it's lifetime(say 40-50 years).
Which may seem like a huge number, until you remember that World of Warcraft is making close to a billion a year.
The reason the number looks that shockingly high, is because he is a one man show.
My guess is that he is going to end up using his new found fame/resources to start his own game development company.
http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/
The best day (9/23) had 25663 sales, or about $255k. This came on top of the server being down (0 sales) for 3 previous days. The recent average is around 10k sales ($100k / day).
EDIT: As pointed out by bananaandapple below, the price is in euro not USD, which brings the best day to $347k. The recent average works out to about $136k / day.
I don't know where this website pulled their numbers from, but I think they're incorrect. According to Minecraft's stats[1], in the last 24 hours 12,025 people bought the game, times 9.95 Euro = 119,499.50 Euro, which is a bit less than $163k/day in American dollars. [1] http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp
A week ago, he was selling up to 36000 copies a day.
Why would you work for a software company if you are making that much?
Think Hollywood director type job offer. Use somebody else's money to build your dream product with a huge incredible staff. Get gauranteed, huge up front salary to do so. Take away a sizeable piece of the action on the success.
their math is a little bit off, a copy sold every 3 seconds = 28,800 sales a day. Or 10.5 million copies a year. To tell the truth its pretty shocking how minecraft has taken off...the guy will probably end up making 100 million off the game. And if he sticks to iterating it, it might end up making over a billion over it's lifetime(say 40-50 years). Which may seem like a huge number, until you remember that World of…
it might continue to do well, but i'm skeptical that he'll be able to keep up the rate at which it is currently selling.
either way, though, he's doing amazingly well for himself.
their math is a little bit off, a copy sold every 3 seconds = 28,800 sales a day. Or 10.5 million copies a year. To tell the truth its pretty shocking how minecraft has taken off...the guy will probably end up making 100 million off the game. And if he sticks to iterating it, it might end up making over a billion over it's lifetime(say 40-50 years). Which may seem like a huge number, until you remember that World of…
http://www.sopheon.com/Portals/1/WoW%20Screenshot.jpg
While Minecraft looks like this:
The sales graphs are public: http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/ The best day (9/23) had 25663 sales, or about $255k. This came on top of the server being down (0 sales) for 3 previous days. The recent average is around 10k sales ($100k / day). EDIT: As pointed out by bananaandapple below, the price is in euro not USD, which brings the best day to $347k. The recent average works out to about $136k / day.
