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Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Mojang has announced today that its game 'Minecraft' has passed 100 million sales across all platforms, including PC, Mac, consoles and mobile. Nearly 53,000 copies of the game have been sold every single day around the world since the beginning of the year. What may be even more impressive is the fact that more than 40 million people actively open up a Minecraft world each month and play around with a blocky axe, shovel and sword. According to Wikipedia, Minecraft is the second-bestselling video game of all-time next to Tetris. Tetris has sold a whopping 495 million copies, so don't expect Minecraft to earn the number one spot anytime soon. Microsoft did acquire Mojang almost two years ago, and there has been no word on a sequel as the company continues to release Minecraft for new platforms like HoloLens and Samsung's Gear VR. Soon, there will even be a version made just for China too.
They mean Microsoft.
Note the top two selling games of all times are about placing blocks.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea. Rename the company Minecraft.
Kinda like Philip Morris changing their name to the Altria Group, to help people forget about the horrible products [i]they[/i] made.
I will not care until Minecraft is open source.
Well, you could try "Minetest" or any of the following here
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Maybe that's not such a bad idea. Rename the company Minecraft. Kinda like Philip Morris changing their name to the Altria Group, to help people forget about the horrible products [i]they[/i] made.
They will even make more money if they bring out a version of Minecraft called "Call of Duty - Minecraft" or better yet to cover all bases "Minecraft Battlefront". :-)
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
room scale? soo.. like 7x7x7 blocks?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Nah, not 7 blocks tall. The player fits in 2-high but not 1-high, so you could reasonably call a block a meter. Unless you're in some commercial building with really high pipes and vents and stuff, and no drop ceilings, I don't think you'd get much higher than 4 blocks high, and even that might be pushing it.
How strong is your grasp on assembly?
You're expected to replace the wrong words until it becomes an interesting, readable and factual article.
'tis no site for lazies.
Waiting for news on how MS will monetize Minecrack.
My 12 yo son is a Minecraft addict. On weeknights and weekends he pouts if he can't play. He's even got me into playing weekends on private servers and paying for his Realms account. Waiting on news on how they're turning the game into profitable accumulated player data.
I just know they'll turn my minecraft model of the Geisel Library into profit, somehow.
Still trying to figure out how to make it dance.
It will have to involve Redstone, I'm sure...
I can see the fnords!
Right now Microsoft could rename themselves "Puppies, Candy and Fireworks Factory" and it wouldn't help their reputation...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Java bytecode is assembly code of the Java virtual machine.
At least in my perception Microsoft's reputation has increased in past few years. They make stable, fast and secure software. Also, for feedback and support, their developers are more easy to reach than before.
My dream is to play a Minecraft world that is a 1:1 mapping of Earth, with proper terrain and biomes. I did find a map called Earth long time ago but it was really scaled down and not very realistic (still impressive, though).
I wonder if you could modify the chunk generator to download from Google Earth and generate realistic chunks on the fly...
considering it is still selling 53,000 copies a day and they bought it about 2 years ago. So they have recouped about a billion dollars of that already (minus ongoing costs). It sounded insanely overpriced at the time, but it seems like it was actually a pretty cheap buy.
Right now Microsoft could rename themselves "Puppies, Candy and Fireworks Factory" and it wouldn't help their reputation...
That's because they would feed the puppies the candy and then load them into the fireworks
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It would never have sold 100 million copies as an open source game. You're more than welcome to do all the work they did and make your own popular game and open source it.
Actually, following some leaks, decompilation, forgotten debug symbols etc, full source of Minecraft is available. Not legally, but still.
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It got a decent boost with Win7. Win8 was more or less underwhelming, but not disastrous. Now the current push for Win10 earns them reputation of some supervillain with a master plan.
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MS has never really been a consumer focused company. I would say that this is their entrance to the consumer world more than anything.
As far as keeping the company afloat... well, that would be Azure. Minecraft is a drop in the bucket.
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The Minecraft block *is* defined as being 1m x 1m x 1m. As for 2m feeling cramped, that is most likely true in reality too. Most rooms in modern houses, are 2.4m in height (in my basement it's 2.1m, the rest of the house 2.4m). Incidentally, I make my Minecraft rooms, 3 blocks high, and use half slabs on the top half of the third block, making my Minecraft rooms 2.5m high. This does not feel cramped and Endermen cannot enter/teleport in those spaces.
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Whut?
I'm leaning toward Overcraft or Minewatch.
Actually, as a former Mojang developer (hi, I'm TheMogMiner), you're full of shit. There have been next to zero leaks other than some minor screenshots from when Markus was still developing it single-handedly literally years ago, and the decompiled source code has the following issues:
1) It's 100% crowd-sourced, and with the Minecraft community being comprised mainly of kids and teenagers, some of the community-supplied symbols are fucking dumb as hell and not at all accurate.
2) Nowhere near 100% of the source code even has community-supplied symbols.
3) The decompiled code has every single static final member of every class inlined into the code, thanks to the compiler doing the inlinng at compile-time, so simple tweakables like the world height and utter parameters are an utter shit-show when it comes to modding them in the decompiled source.
4) Similarly, the decompiled code has zero comments, because again, comments are not retained by the compiler during compilation.
tl;dr: You have no idea what you're talking about.
It's that thing that failed to compete against the Intellivision and Colecovision, isn't it?
It got a decent boost with Win7. Win8 was more or less underwhelming, but not disastrous. Now the current push for Win10 earns them reputation of some supervillain with a master plan.
I installed MS Win10 in a virtual machine a few hours ago and as an operating system, it is fine, as I would expect it to be.
Here are my observations.
1) The base OS installed from the ISO is about 9.4GB.
2) Very pretty although that is subjective and you like tiles, although it is possible to hide them.
3) Verry intrusive into your private use.
4) Loves to make is fairly difficult for the average user to change the security settings. Fortunately, there are private tools (be careful) that can fix that.
5) Please check out the following site . The presenter does not object to Win10 however he does not like the way Microsoft hides the fact that this OS can phone home if you let it. What is even more reprehensible is that after an update some of your settings may be reverted back from "off" to "on". Sure this is not a big deal for someone with a bit of technical knowledge but most people don't have that.
Compared against my Fedora 23 KDE Spin:
1) My 2600 packages which include the OS, GUI and lots of packages such as LibreOffice, The Gimp, Handbrake, Chrome, Firefox, some serious maths packages, video display software such as VLC and MPV Media Player as well as a host of other packages too numerous to name here, add up to 9.1GB. Even Linux Mint with it's base ISO install (including LibreOffice and The Gimp) is about 5.1GB. What on earth has Win10 got in that 9.4GB base ISO install that does not have an Office or photo editing suite?
2) My fully customizable KDE display is also very nice and while it does not use tiles (very subjective here) it is very functional and IMHOmuch more flexible.
As for installing Fedora it took about the same as it took to install MS Win10, but configuring for security was so much easier in Fedora (again subjective).
Personally, I would rather use Fedora since I have full control, however, there is nothing inherently wrong with Win10 if you lock it down but this is beyond the capability of most users.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
There are TONS of ideas that could be done. Anyone who reads /r/minecraft will be aware of them.
i.e.
* Separate the geometry from the texture, so you don't have to wait for half-block, stair, equivalents of a new material
* Shared / Co-operative building
* Steam Workshop
* Actual magic
* Actual quests
* New block types. i.e. Think Lego
Minecraft did acquire Mojang almost two years ago...
I think what you mean is
Microsoft did acquire Mojang almost two years ago...
Microsoft didn't just get the game, they got the rights to the BRAND. Minecraft merchandise is huge. I know, I have three kids who love it.
What I like about it is that my kids all share 1 account... they don't go out on servers to play, they just build worlds and do all kinds of stuff locally. I even set up a server for them, but they don't use it. They just open their worlds up to LAN access and have fun.
I also like that it is set up (currently) so you buy the game and you are good. No paying for upgrades and things like that. Hopefully Microsoft won't change that, I was bummed when I heard they bought it. But there are tools like MultiMC that are fantastic. You can easily create instances for different versions and load mods with a few clicks. It makes taking backups for them pretty easy.
Personally - I don't get it. But they sure do, and love it.
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Which has nothing really to do with actual assembly language, in terms of either syntax or performance.
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As opposed to this dumpster fire of a country.
I think TheMogMiner is right, if their had been any leaks it is likely we would have heard about them.
THIS.... none of those were simple renames. Software evolves and all of those products went through a great deal of change over multiple transitions.
I don't think there will be a sequel.. Think the focus will just switch to the MCPE code base. It is already shared across multiple platforms...
Their has not been a legit free-to-play version available since the demo a few years back. Lots of hacked versions, but many of them have trojans too.
Parrents have been asking for this. They do not want their kids playing on unmonitored public servers so MS is rolling in the code to let you play people on your XBox friends list.. or whatever they call it.
I just wish they would put a bit more effort into rekindling the support they had for the Raspberry Pi platform. There are quirky hacks to get the full version to work but it shouldn't have to be that complicated.
The full scale of the problems doesn't begin to show up until you begin to use win10 as a power user.
It's an okay system for a secretary for using MS Office and maybe an invoice program.
It's a bad system for a developer who needs to write embedded C, crosscompile for 5 different embedded platforms, support 20 various embedded protocols, often involving weird hardware plugged into the PC. The backwards compatibility modes are dodgy at times, the system poorly manages a large number of programs including multiple IDE,
It's an absolutely abysmal system for someone working in show business. Imagine your laptop driving the scene lighting and sound system starts a mandatory round of updates mid-way through the concert.
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They didn't buy it for the game, they bought it for the brand. You are just adding up sales for the individual games. What about all the merchandise? What about MC2, MC3 and MC4? (They will be made eventually after MC has been milked to death.)
2.5 billion is a steal for a globally recognized brand. Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas for 5 billion, and if they don't make that back before the decade is out, I will eat my hat.
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