Minecraft Reaches One Million Concurrent Players on PC

Also Minecraft: Pocket Edition has sold 30 million copies.

Minecraft developer, Mojang has revealed that more than one million people were playing Minecraft at the same time.

"For the first time ever, we finally have the capability to see how many people are currently playing Minecraft right now. Holy crap," Mojang developer Nathan Adams said on Twitter. "There are currently over 998,000 people playing Minecraft right at this moment. It is not even remotely close to being a peak time. I could have waited 5 minutes to say 1 million, but nobody would believe that."

Adams revealed that this number includes PC, Mac, and Linux players with version 1.3 and higher who are online. He says that the number would be much higher if Mojang was able to count offline players, players with older versions, and players who didn't purchase the game legitimately.

Johan Bernhardsson, another Mojang developer, also revealed that the mobile version of the game, Minecraft: Pocket Edition, has sold 30 million copies to date.

Recently Mojang and Telltale Games have announced a brand new episodic series for Minecraft, launching in 2015 for PC, consoles, and mobile.