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I don't know where this website pulled their numbers from, but I think they're incorrect.

According to Minecraft's stats[1], in the last 24 hours 12,025 people bought the game, times 9.95 Euro = 119,499.50 Euro, which is a bit less than $163k/day in American dollars.

[1] http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp

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Even if it were "just" $50k/day, that's not far off from how much some programmers make in a year, working for someone else. He's much better off on his own. With that kind of cash, he could pay other people to help him realize his dreams.

A week ago, he was selling up to 36000 copies a day.

Either give a reference, or you must be confusing sales and downloads.

http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/

That shows the maximum as 25000, not 36000 sales per day.

The number of copies are in Euros, and there are 1.44 US copies per Euro copy, so the number sold is 36000 US copies per day.

That's not how currency exchange rates work...

I choose to interpret your parent as a joke.

One thing working for him is that to play the survival version, you have to pay. If there was a free trial, I probably would've given that a shot and then escaped from the potential clutches of addiction. But it was paid only, so I paid. And I rarely pay for anything.

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