Minecraft Had 74 Million Active Players in December, Sales Surpass 144 Million Units - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 January 2018 / 3,824 Views
Minecraft has set a new record with more than 74 million active users in December 2017, according to the new head of Minecraft at Microsoft Helen Chiang.
The game has also sold more than 144 million units combined worldwide.
"We just recently set a new record in December for monthly active users, so now we're at 74 million monthly active users — and that's really a testament to people coming back to the game, whether it's through the game updates or bringing in new players from across the world," Chiang told PopSugar. "That's really our goal, to keep building the community that we have."
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When MS bought them, I thought 2 billion was way too much money.
I was wrong. It was a bargain.
Anyone knows how much theay had sold before MS buyed mojang?
54m, it's sold another 90m copies since MS bought it in a little under 3.5 years
Thats an insane amout of sales, and to think certain thought it was a terrible deal.
I believe these numbers are bloated. I never heard of anyone that plays Minecraft.
They still have a long way to earn those 2 billion they paid for this franchise.
