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Minecraft Hits 20 Million Registered Users

If you're a card-carrying Minecraft player, consider yourself in good company. Markus Persson, the game's mastermind (better known by his online handle, Notch), tweeted that the blocky sandbox game has hit a significant milestone: 20 million registered users.

His first tweet was relatively mild, saying "Minecraft now has 20 million registered users. At 70 kg each, that's 25% of the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza." He followed it up with a slightly disturbing conversion. "At 4 liters per day, it would take a million years to drink 20 million liquidized humans. Just saying. I'll stop now."

Those registrations didn't all translate to paid users, which Notch noted in a similarly tongue-in-cheek stat. "23.23% also bought the game. Extrapolating, we find that 76.77% of the internet will register for things they don't want."

That's more than 4.6 million paid copies, if you don't feel like crunching the numbers yourself.

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  • Nice! It's quite possible I will end up becoming one of those judging by some of the good things I've heard about it.
  • I'm glad to count myself as one of the 23.23%!
  • Those are very impressive numbers indeed; numbers to which I have contributed :)

  • I've never played this.
  • I've never played this.

  • I have yet to try Minecraft. Honestly though, it's the blocky 8bit appearance that has stopped me from playing something that seems to be very good. And I'm not exactly sure what the hell it's about, ha.....
  • Always warms my heart to see something independent become super successful.

  • Haven't registered or even visited the site yet. I avoid all videos on YouTube but from screenshots/talk the game sounds great but I don't really want to invest so much time in advanced lego.
  • ...SOYLENT GREEN IS LIQUIDIZED MINECRAFT PLAYERS!

  • I'm registered but haven't gotten the game still. I remember seeing somewhere that Notch wants you to pirate the game if you can't afford it, so why doesn't he just make it free for a limited time like Portal? It would be a big FU to people who've purchased it but who cares, they've had their fun.
  • Notch has come a long way. I propose a toast!
  • Illuminati!!! lol the previous article with that MMO made me laugh.....Notch and Jay-Z want to drink us!!!!

    anyways that is impressive numbers

  • I hear people talk about it but I after hearing it's just building Legos on PC, I'm barely interested to even visit the site.
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  • One of my all-time favorites, and it probably always will be.

  • That's cool I guess, and that is a lot of paid copies, but the game only costs like $10-$20 or so, right? Still great though.
  • I will never understand people's desire to play this game.
  • Woo :D

  • I registered. I didn't buy, though :(

  • Pretty awesome! I still remember the day my friend showed me and he's like, "the dude just finished making this game like, yesterday! lol"

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