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Thursday, 6 December 2012

Minecraft reaches 8 million PC copies sold, Notch celebrates with cryptic number


You know what’s sold a lot of copies? The Sims 2. But Minecraft is steadily closing the gap, with Mojangbringing word today that the PC version of their blockbusting hit has sold a whopping 8 million copies to date (8,000,139 to be exact). Mojang’s Jens Bergensten responded to the news by stating that “I can’t think of anything clever to say. It’s simply amazing,” while Notch went one better by revealing that “69I960EHE0A4A0IVG0EHE02500R4R0G1T30PLJ00V6V0EHE0V1U01V10U5U0VGV0V4R”. Honestly – he can’t go one day without making a dig at Windows 8.
To clarify: huh? We’ve been assured that this string of seemingly nonsensical letters and numbers leads somewhere awesome, but we’re completely stumped, and our Enigma machine is sadly on the fritz. We’ve narrowed it down to a serial number for a super-secret 0x10c alpha, some sort of Scrolls code, or Notch’s Netflix password – but we’re not ashamed to admit that we’re probably completely wrong about all three. It therefore falls to you to decipher it for us – so make it snappy, eh?
Here’s that number again: 69I960EHE0A4A0IVG0EHE02500R4R0G1T30PLJ00V6V0EHE0V1U01V10U5U0VGV0V4R

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