Now most of you probably know that Minecraft has almost sold 1 million copies.This is a very large number, if you compare that WoW has sold almost 9 million copies since the vanilla release. Minecraft was released in May 2009, so it has been out for just over a year and already sold almost a ninth as many copies as WoW. What makes this such a big accomplishment is the game has just barely made the switch to Beta and there aren't any box versions available, this is a very large accomplishment or an indie game that is not even in its final stages of development. Notch said in his blog (Word of notch) that he and his team “Don’t even know how to celebrate it”. One of the things I’m most excited about is the announcement that Notch made about there next update that they are going to release. It might include “A water mob and quite possibly Paint”, this last idea excites me, because one of the things that I’ve wanted added to the game most is more design features and different colors would add so much originality and innovative to peoples builds it would be very interesting to see. In a recent tweet Notch said that the next update will focus on save file format, followed immediately by modding. So we just have to wait and see what we are in for for upcoming updates.
-MP
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