Me too, eventhough he has earned enough to life for ages

Ive read he makes currently around 250.000€ dayly (presales)!
And the Game is not even Beta yet.
That would beat even any AAA Title sales I know of.
(remember he has almost no costs to repay)

This is epic.

I bought it too, its a fascinating game! don't know why but i can't stop mining ^^.

The graphics can give you a headache though, more hi-res textures could be helpful there.

You can download texture packs from the forums, the game supports textures up to 512*512, but I like the original textures, have a kind of 8bit-y vibe

just got the game. and i have no idea why...


... but it's entirely made of awesome and win. ENTIRELY.

his blog is interesting:
http://notch.tumblr.com/page/3
"Piracy will win in the long run. It has to. The alternative is too scary."

edit:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/mine-the-gap/

I am so jealous...I mean, it is not Alpha but he could stop making games after this one, he is done with money...

No, he isn't. 250k a day isn't much, like damocles pointed out, he must pay high taxes(?!) to his government.
However, with this little money, you just can't stop working. This might work for the next few years, but after this?

Sure, his life is currently the wet dream of every hobby programmer, but he didn't do any remarkable.
Beside that, I fucking love minecraft.

if he has a reasonable lifestyle then of course he could retire. even after all the taxes he still could invest in flats or something like that if he doesn't like to work on anything anymore.

Yeeaaah, I remember what happend to the last ones that invested in flats