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		muhfuhkuh on March 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to h... There are alot of people with computers on this planet. It's a testament to not only being a great game/experience out of the box, but also the constant updates and the lack of costly add-on content plaguing other games.

Strom on March 2, 2012 [–]

I think an important point is also that Minecraft can run on very low spec hardware, no need for fancy GPUs.

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