Wondering how this whole Minecraft thing is working out for creator Markus “Notch” Persson? Pretty well, I’d say. He says that his little indie game has made over $33 million in revenue so far.
In aReddit threadwhere Persson was asked how much Minecraft has made so far he breaks it down:
A lot. It all ends up in an account somewhere, and I try not to look at it. I get a normal salary these days for day to day stuff, but there’s a big pile somewhere. The game sold about 800,000 copies at 9.95 euro and then so far 1 million more at 14.95 euro. Paypal takes a cut, there are taxes, and such, but it’s still a huge wad of money.
Gamasutradid the math: There’s 1,813,527 paying customers for the title, which would put the total revenues for the game at over €23 million, or just over $33 million. Wow.
Seeing this makes me think of everything everyone has every said they were going to do but never did. Persson did it and look what happened. Congrats.
