Minecraft is quite possibly the most popular game of our generation. Its conquests are many, and it has taken over as the dominant force in imagination-intensive games. I would go as far to say it's probably affected the Lego market to some degree. Why pay for new bricks and sets when you can just download another patch for Minecraft?
At any rate, there has been debate among Steam users playing DOTA and Minecraft players about which title gets used more. Steam's statistics are readily apparent, and indicate that DOTA enjoys over 900,000 concurrent users at its peak server time. That's a pretty impressive statististic. However, it would appear that Minecraft is edging out DOTA by a margin of about 100,000 users – and this is only counting PC, Mac and Linux users:
I could have waited 5 minutes to say 1 million, but nobody would believe that. 😀
This tweet comes from Nathan Adams, a developer at Minecraft studio Mojang. He's referring to the number of concurrent users that Minecraft gets just before its peak server time.
Just over 998,000 people were playing when Adams tweeted this. With the Mojang-developed title out on so many different platforms, this number is only representative of a fraction of the actual concurrent users that Minecraft probably sees.
