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History of Minecraft
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Production
He was on his own writing a basic game. -
Charged people £8
£8 to download game -
Persson Released Minecraft as an Alpha
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Active member of TIGsource and Discussions
He engaged with early players to receive feedback and update game -
Persson- 660,000 followers
Twitter and tumblr followers -
Minecraft became talk of 4chan and Reddit
sales hit 15,000 - person knew he was onto something bigger than an indie release -
Sales reached upto 200,000
Also paypal suspected fraud and froze Perssons account -
Beta version came out
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Minecraft passed 1 million units sold
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2 million units sold
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3 million units sold
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4 millionth copy sold
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Beta priced £16
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Minecraft made £52 million in revenue