Minecraft Passes 18 Million Sales!

By Sacheverell Jan 5, 2015
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That's 18 million copies just on PC/Mac alone! Crazy! Minecraft is showing no signs of stopping its relentless domination of the gaming world, with an approximate average of 17,500 copies of the game selling every single day, on PC/Mac alone. That's crazy!

Were you around when it all started? If not, the above video is an interesting look into the past: the first-ever video of Minecraft gameplay, recorded by Notch as he coded the game into existence. Crazy to think the game we know and love came from such humble beginnings, but everything starts somewhere!

When did you first pick up Minecraft?

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Posted Jan 5, 2015
I picked up Minecraft just before 1.4.7! Been playing ever since!

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I picked up Minecraft just before 1.4.7! Been playing ever since!

for me it was like 1.7.8 or 1.7.9. I knew of the game before hand but thought of it as a silly kiddies game and refused to try it. I took a leap of faith when friends said I should buy it for console, played it for a few weeks on ps3, then bought it like last May (roughly I think) for PC, then PS4 the moment I saw it. I love it :-)

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Posted Jan 5, 2015
I started playing in 1.5.1 and bought it soon after. (I 'accidentally' cracked the game without knowing it, a glitch in the launcher I suppose).

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I started playing in 1.5.1 and bought it soon after. (I 'accidentally' cracked the game without knowing it, a glitch in the launcher I suppose).

SURE ok, LOL. Still kind of cool I suppose but good that you bought it officially etc...or did you?? *dun duun duuuuun* :-)

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SURE ok, LOL. Still kind of cool I suppose but good that you bought it officially etc...or did you?? *dun duun duuuuun* :-)

I did. My name is poiihy; you can check it if you don't believe me.

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Posted Jan 5, 2015
mid August 2010

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That cobble texture brings back so many memories.

I first started playing the game over four years ago, back in alpha 1.0.1_01.

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That cobble texture brings back so many memories.

I first started playing the game over four years ago, back in alpha 1.0.1_01.

I wish we could play in that test world on A: textures from then and B: updated textures. That would be cool. At the time I don't think anything other than grass and cobblestone were really there, were they? and I also have a feeling that there was no render of the character for 3rd person (yet).

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I started in 1.8.....

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I started in 1.6.4, but I played it before

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The game has grown pretty big in the past few years and it's still awesome!

I remember building my first tsurvivalhome out of bricks (wall) and red wool (roof). It was pretty small, about 5 x 10 x 4
I was looking all over the world for those red flowers, because I wasn't able to grow them with bonemeal.

The first time I played Minecraft was back in Beta 1.2_02. Beds were not invented.
Minecraft grew larger and larger. Wolves were introduced in Beta 1.4 and rain and thunderstorms in Beta 1.5.
Once Mojang announced the 1.8 Adventure Update I was still in the game, and more than ever.
The new worldgeneration made my day, altough I missed the old Notch-Generation after some time.
Redstone possibilities were made bigger, more mobs were added.

We, as a community, make the game....
But most of all: The game makes us!

so true! When were the failed pigs (creepers) added to the game? And what was in the Adventure Mode update for 1.8.0? I never could find those patch notes and when I did I had to go (basically only was able to skim through briefly).

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I forgot to mention the flying squids while having lagg xD
Patchnotes here

that is too good! Thanks for the link :-)

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WHOHOOOOOOOO minecraft probably is the best game in the world! YEEEEEEEEES
I begin minecrafting in 1.2.5 with cracked launcher, then, i bought the game in 1.4.7 about 1 year after i started

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I started some time in alpha, minecraft really has grown a lot since then...

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It really has grown has it? 3.2 years and i'm still into this game. I started back in Beta 1.6.6 right before the first phases of the adventure update.

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I started at beta 1.8, been playing ever since.

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It all started with me watching minecraft videos near the end of 2010, which i found interesting (The game had just passed in to beta from alpha by then, iirc). I started playing a cracked version sometime in January of 2011 (Beta 1.2_01 i believe) And then I bought the game on the 23rd of February, 2011 (Beta 1.3_01).

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I started Minecraft in beta 1.2_02 with a copy of my friend's Minecraft. As I realized it was not legal I bought the game in beta 1.4 and I'm still playing the game ^^ I miss the old world generator <beta 1.8

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I started Minecraft in beta 1.2_02 with a copy of my friend's Minecraft. As I realized it was not legal I bought the game in beta 1.4 and I'm still playing the game ^^ I miss the old world generator <beta 1.8

Why wouldn't it be? It should be legal, all you were doing was using his account, right? I am unfamiliar with how thigns were prior to 1.7 era (probably SHOULD downgrade version and take a look around, just that that is a lot of work (ok, more of a pain in the ass, but still ;-) ) haha.

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Not as much as I'd like, no. He's been rather.. away, ever since Minecraft became über-popular.

sorry to hear that, maybe you should ring him up some time and catch up ;-)

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