Minecraft sales going through the roof as some big sites plug it for being plugged buy Value 
Recently on Kotaku.
Super awesome stuff
Better start putting some of that treasure away for the future 
I hope you have some nice tax evading arrangement, I hear Sweden is heavy on taxation.
Icelanders have a good experience with tax havens, Tortola, Virgin Islands, you name it. Good way to hide your money from the government ;D
I’d also put some of that into gold, maybe tomorrow the euro, or whatever paper currency, might evaporate. Icelanders have a recent experience with that as well. :
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I don’t think he has to worry about money the next decades, he is not far away from making 1M per month (just double today’s sales, and when multiplayer is working it is more likely to be 10x instead 2x) 
Erm 1M each month? 1M means 1 million, right? When the counter is true he sold minecraft 39,392 times. Each item costs 9.95 EUR. So that’s “only” 391,950.40 EUR in total, around $495,000. But you have to subtract all transaction fees and taxes. In the end you get only ~50%.
I said he is not far away from making 1M. You have to take todays numbers into account, not the numbers up to yesterday. Numbers will rise in future, not fall. He nearly trippled his sales over the last days, so it is more than likely that sales will rise.
If the sales double again (1557 sales last 24h) it scratches the 1M. And when the price will double (to 20 euros) and maybe in future the game will be available on Steam my statement is correct. Transaction fees are 10% I think. When you talk about how much someone earns it normally means before taxes, not after.
I think this is an interesting topic, and raises a few questions:
What do you do when your game is a huge success?
How do you deal with it, on many levels, e.g. business level and personal level.
What are the next natural steps to take? Build up a game studio? Continue your life and day job as normal? Quit working and go live on a golf court?
I’m pretty sure Markus is thinking carefully what he wants to do with his success, build on it or live on it? Myself, I would not like to sit at home all day, I like interaction with other people with similar skills as myself. I would miss the brain-storming too much, the cooperation. I would probably create a 3-4 person game studio. But that depends on a lot of factors of course, such as if the income can sustain such a studio and provide you with a financial stability.
Oh well.
Ya… what you said Hans In my opinion it’s still a long way to 1M per month. But doesn’t matter at all, because we need to learn from Notch
Anyway congratulations to Notch. You got the right idea in the right time.
He could enter the indie-fund.com team and invest something ;D
And you’ve got to figure out things each person can do that actually makes them worth their price. That’s a task in itself when you’ve made such a successful game all by your lonesome. Similarly, you’ll be used to doing whatever you want with gameplay, design, etc., once you add other people you’ve got to make sure you mesh creatively or you’ll find yourself in a big hole of constantly being frustrated.
Yeah, I am thinking a lot about what to do. A small game studio would be very nice in the long run, but for now I kind of enjoy being my own boss.
There’s a significant lack of social interaction during the weekdays, though… I’m sure I’ll get extremely sick of it eventually.
unless you clearly establish urself as their boss, in wich case u always get what u want, percs of being the amazing programmer 
A common way to “fix” this, is to rent a small cubicle at a company - usually this includes the necessarily infrastructure.
Personally, I don’t think I would be able to work alone for a long time.
That said, it all depends on how long you can sustain yourself on minecraft and future intentions.
That’s a good idea. I know in San Francisco there are a number of shared offices where people rent a certain number of desks in a large space. I’ve heard generally good things about them.
Ha, that’s cool. That video though… nice idea but it’s not like the guy has any suggestions on how to actually accomplish what he proposes. That means his statement is worthless.
Tried and tested technique… start with some good points to make the complete nonsense that follows sound more credible.
Ironically, I think Minecraft bridged the gap between sense and nonsense
You can tell he’s full of it cause he repeats himself like 5 times saying that the goverment uses violence…
Not only that, but he has no real actionable suggestions to begin with. No laws? No taxes? If every single person was benevolent, no worries. How to pay for public services, social services, community improvements, education, etc. without taxes? What, people are going to willingly open their wallets at every turn?
This guy speaks of utopia. Not possible. Hell, we can’t even find a balance in virtual worlds where none of this stuff is an issue to begin with!
Groan. I feel violated. :-\ Crackpots.
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The people who made that video, I mean. Not people posting in this thread.
And HI CHRISM! =D
Heh that was hilarious, I agree he doesn’t propose anything of use. Although I have run across a solution, a resource-based economy. Much like how people manage their resources in Minecraft. A resource-based economy has a central computer manage the earth’s resources. Instead of relying on money to divide up resources (which as u can see has been great : )among people, we would allow technology to let every person have access to everything they need. Money was great back then, but its outdated.
Anyways, keep up the great work on Minecraft. Its a great inspiration for me to finish VE.
is that the video Ive been meaning to see for about 6 months now?