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Recent Minecraft boom has drawn in over 20 million in the last year

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Recently having celebrated its tenth birthday, Minecraft has continued to grow exponentially and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down.

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It’s called the Pewdiepie Effect. Ever heard of it? Basically, whenever Pewdiepie, that extremely popular YouTuber you may have heard of, begins playing something the game in question skyrockets in popularity. Which isn’t to say that Minecraft needed any help being popular, it’s already estimated to be the best selling game of all time according to the numbers posted by Microsoft in July, stating that the game had sold over 176 million copies. Although this number has definitely grown much higher since then as Microsoft has recently announced that the game has gained over 20 million monthly players over the course of a year.

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I’m not saying that Pewdiepie’s return to Minecraft is the only reason that Minecraft has grown to be an even larger success but I have to imagine that it’s played some role in it. Minecraft is seemingly going from strength to strength as the game has shown consistent growth of the years with reports that the game is currently sitting at 112 million active players compared to the measly 91 million in the October of 2018. These numbers are taking into account the various different platforms Minecraft is available on and considering how prolific the game is, it shouldn’t really surprise anyone that those numbers are so high. Except maybe Roblox, who’ve once again been punted back into second place following the announcement that the free to play game has 100 million active users earlier this year.

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I’ll be honest, even I’ve been considering getting into Minecraft. The meme that Minecraft was a game played almost exclusively by (and for) ten-year-olds has long since died as people have come around to the idea that maybe this extremely non-linear, innovative and well-designed game is pretty good. Who would have thought?

Last Updated: September 17, 2019

47 Comments

  1. Raptor Rants

    September 17, 2019 at 13:52

    When people play Minecraft: That game you are playing is so cool with its 8bit textures.
    Anyone plays Empyrion: LOL. Look at your silly game with bad textures.

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      September 17, 2019 at 14:03

      And? 😀

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      • Raptor Rants

        September 17, 2019 at 14:30

        *glares at one of those folk who give Empyrion a hard time*

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    • Yahtzee

      September 17, 2019 at 14:11

      Your point?

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      • Raptor Rants

        September 17, 2019 at 14:30

        minecraft textures are worse

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        • Yahtzee

          September 17, 2019 at 14:30

          Ever seen Minecraft with high res texture packs and shaders installed. Now I know installing texture packs is kinda cheating so you can install some into Empyrion…oh wait… no you can’t.

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          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:30

            So you admit you’re a cheat?

    • Pariah

      September 17, 2019 at 14:30

      What’s Empyrion?

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        September 17, 2019 at 14:30

        And that’s why textures are important Rants.

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      • Raptor Rants

        September 17, 2019 at 14:39

        A better Minecraft

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        • Yahtzee

          September 17, 2019 at 14:39

          Not even Empyrion is a better Empyrion.

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        • Pariah

          September 17, 2019 at 14:39

          Never heard of it. Tell me, are we about to get the “Vegan/Crossfit” type talk about this edgy new game of yous?

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          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:39

            Lol. It’s like Minecraft but for spaceships. Pretty cool actually.
            I built this
            https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1508801340

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            The exterior is a bit meh, but interior is awesome. Really cool.

            As an aside, when was the last time you went outside?

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            *twitch…* bit meh? *cries in corner*

            Lol. That was ages ago though. I did spend something like 2 months on that thing

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            I mean to me it looks like a lego aircraft carrier, and to my personal tastes that does nothing. So that IS a rather biased “meh”.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            So I think your answer to my “last went outside” question seems to be “space IS outside”.

            Good job. But I just want to take this time to remind you that there’s this thing you might remember from your distant past called sunlight. Not the soap. The yellow heat-ball in the sky. You should reacquaint yourself. Probably. Just a suggestion. XD

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            Oh I haven’t played Empyrion for a while. NMS is where it’s at now

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            Now there’s a game I can get behind!

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            Explore all the planets!

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            I really dig that the special planets (forget the name) have things you can take and put in your base.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:57

            oh yeah, the ultra rare planets. My favourite is the hexagon ones and the ones with the light pillar things

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 15:06

            The hex and the bubbles for me. 😀

            Ultra rare, yet in my new game after the patch I had one per system for the first 6 systems I visited. Including one that only had the exotic planet in it. It was the closest red star system, it was an abandoned system but I needed Cadmium.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 15:16

            Yeah I find them fairly often too. I’m still looking for the perfect lush world though

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 15:17

            Yeah now those are rare. I keep finding ones with storms or heavy sentinel activity. I want one that has perfect weather, low sentinel activity, and a nice ocean.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 15:24

            I found a lush world. Lovely trees, thick and full of life, no sentinel activity. But every creature wanted to kill me and the weather was either raining or burning you to a crisp…

          • Yahtzee

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            Outside to a mall or outside to the yard in bleach cosplay?

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            Rukia best girl.

          • Yahtzee

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            She was pretty cool in the Netflix adaption as well.

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            She was the ONLY cool thing about the Netflix adaptation.

            And Yaroichi is still my #1.

          • Yahtzee

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            I stopped watching bleach after the first arc so I dont know her… teehee

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            Oh wow you missed a lot of the really cool stuff. Especially the Espada. They were so damn cool.

          • Yahtzee

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            I finished up all the Naruto and filler though. And then made a life rule to never watch anime with more than 26 episodes per season with a max of 3 seasons.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            I skipped all the fillers in the last season of Naruto.

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            I almost did that with Shippuden, but then there were like 80 filler episodes and I was just “NOT A CHANCE”. Still haven’t finished it.

            I watched all of Bleach though. So eh.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:47

            *cough*

          • Yahtzee

            September 17, 2019 at 14:39

            You did not. The only thing you built that I can vouch for is a hole outside my base.

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:39

            That hole was magnificent

          • Pariah

            September 17, 2019 at 14:39

            That’s what she said

          • Yahtzee

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            Magnificent as that team rocket logo

          • Raptor Rants

            September 17, 2019 at 14:40

            Team Rocket often digs holes. Yes

  2. HvR

    September 17, 2019 at 13:53

  3. G8crasha

    September 17, 2019 at 14:11

    Will the game never die? What is their secret sauce?

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    • Yahtzee

      September 17, 2019 at 14:11

      They took a Notch off their belt.

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  4. justlikemo

    September 17, 2019 at 14:30

    My kids absorb the stuff, well apart from its the only thing that’s good on the ps3. The one has every minecraft book their is in the bookstore.

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  5. Dresden

    September 17, 2019 at 14:11

    Someone tried showing me the wonder of Minecraft in the hopes of getting me to join him. I’ll have to be honest, it just isn’t for me.

    The closest I’ve come to enjoying a game like that is Trove. I loved playing that game for a while. And perhaps Portal Knights, that was also kind of fun.

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