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Minecraft is the first videogame ever to sell more than 300 million copies (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of people shit on Minecraft but I started playing it because my little sister was really into it. I set up a self hosted server and she would invite her friends to play on it sometimes.

They would build all these crazy things. It really reminded me of my passion with legos as a kid. I’d try to help them out but usually I got in the way so I just kept to managing the server and making changes for them as needed. Still a ton of fun and it’s one of the few things I easily wish I could go back and live over again.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a really sweet older sibling thing to do

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

It’s one of those things you start doing randomly and don’t appreciate how meaningful it was until you look back at it. My sister is in college now and has a boyfriend. So the days of hanging out with big bro on Minecraft are long over 😅

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 12 points 1 year ago

Minecraft is absolutely incredible, if you look at some popular SMPs like Hermitcraft or Scicraft it gives you an idea of what you can do with it. It is also flawed and could be improved in many ways, but it's still under development and doesn't show any signs of slowing down. So there is still hope on that front.

[–] mogul@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I read somewhere that Tetris has sold 520 million copies world wide.

EDIT: I read the article and they make the distinction of Teris having sold 520 million copies but it's a total of variations. Do they not consider Minecraft also has variants as well (Xbox One, Xbox 360, Bedrock, Java, Pocket Edition which are the "same" game but different)? All I know for sure is I bought like 7 or more copies of Minecraft so they better thank me lol.

[–] ackzsel@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And in Tetris' case it's about actually copies of a game. Not just some license to play under ever changing terms.

[–] mogul@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well a bunch are physical copies but they made the distinction of "mobile" versions as well (Gameboy physical version yes lol)

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm interested now if Minecraft ever had a physical copy. I did get a demo on disc with Maximum PC magazine back in like 2011-12 and then bought the full version online a few months later for around $9, still can't believe I'm getting free major content updates in that same game

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The console versions have DVD versions

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh right that's so fucking obvious it's embarrassing lol

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good - it earned it.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Great gameplay, continuous updates for over a decade, AND Linux support!

[–] Nevrome@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Good, and it deserves it. I bought multiple copies over the years and sunk way more than 3000h in this game. Congrats Mojang/Microsoft.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I wonder if the telemetry measured what % was modded (having some mod loader installed)

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wonder how many are like my son who had it on the Xbox 360, then the PS4, then the Switch, and now on PC.

[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I still own a copy that Notch sold with the promise that you would get all futute updates and versions. I wonder on how many platforms I can get the game via that original purchase.