Holy Crap! And Minecraft only comes out at the end of the year!

http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp

2790 players online, in 1263 servers.
1592115 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting1592115 registered users, of which 500660 (31.44%) have bought the game.
In the last 24 hours, 18098 people registered, and 5402 people bought the game.

It seems to be a cult hit so far!

I actually saw an article on this earlier funnily enough.

If you want to check it out, here's the URL: http://gameolosophy.com/games/minecraft-sells-500000-copies/

It's amazing what an indie developer with an amazing concept can achieve.

I wouldn't exactly call it pre-orders since the game is already available... Though as an alpha version only. But still, it's a very enjoyable version already and Notch is practically encouraging people to buy it sooner rather than later. And alpha or not, it sure is much more fun and polished than the 'final' version of Final Fantasy XIV. (Yeah, I had to bring it up, I've heard it be called alpha so many times :P )

Anyway, great to see smaller games do this well. I myself only found out about Minecraft's idea quite lately, and as soon as I saw a single video, I knew I was going to love it. The sad this is, I don't have enough time to play it :-/

and as he is selling direct so far he has made €5,000,000 or 6.9475 million U.S. dollars gross. Not sure what the tax on that would be but that is a F*** tone of money. €50,000 a day at current sales rates...

Already at 525170 now.  That's 25,000 sales since this thread started.  DAMN.

Fantastic. I'll get around to buying it when the the fully tested version is released.

It will be double the price at beta stage.

Interesting business model. That would probably make more people buy it now.

It's a "pre-order bonus" since your purchase actually helps fund the development of the game.