On: Why Minecraft Matters

[tedunangst]

Except that quote's not accurate at all. Minecraft has sold 1 million copies lifetime. CoD Black Ops sold 7 times that amount in 24 hours. The franchise outsold Minecraft by an order of magnitude.

[DrStalker → tedunangst]

To get some useful figures to compare:

How much profit has CoD made after all costs are accounted for? (including advertising, which minecraft skipped by going viral)

How much money did CoD make per developer?

[marvin → DrStalker]

This isn't a good comparison; Minecraft is an extreme statistical outlier.

[solipsist → DrStalker]

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