User blog comment:MarioMakerMinecraft/Werid News/Sad News/@comment-28606847-20161125080158/@comment-25014034-20161125133856

Hey!

I did some research of my own, and according to my resources, even though there have already been over 24 Million sales of Minecraft PC, there are still on an average 5K sales of a copy of Minecraft per day. This obviously does not account for any pirated versions of the game, and also does not account for any Pocket Edition/Console/WiiU/AppleTV sales.

A game can obviously not be considered dead when (I approximate) 10,000 copies are being downloaded per day.

We have all made the mistake to think that Minecraft is dying before; I can explain with the example of this very Wiki. About 2 years ago when I joined, this wiki's views had dropped below 50,000 per week from a point when it used to be 300,000 per week. However, now we are keeping stable at 200K and sometimes even reach 600-900K views during a major update.

Yes, sometimes people get bored of a game, or sometimes it doesn't work for them, but most of them do re-play when a new update comes or when the bug restricting their gameplay is fixed.

As for the statistics, you have to remember that people who play a game don't necessarily have to search about it. When Minecraft came out, there was literally no information about how the game had to be played; people had to search for ages and ages to find how the game has to be played and so on; it was all about the community coming together and learning how to play.

Now, information is available through the internet through various websites; and many of these people may have it bookmarked (like myself) so they may not necessarily type the keyword in their search bars. Even help applications and ingame tutorials have been developed to help out gamers learn about the game.

In such a scenario, how often do you think a person will have to search "Minecraft" on their browser? Not too often, I assume.

Anyways, I don't believe Minecraft is dying and I don't think it will for quite some time while we have a great, dedicated community as we do currently. :)

 #MinecraftLivesOn

Darthwikia25 13:38, November 25, 2016 (UTC)