今天早上我离开家的时候，我11岁的儿子格兰特和我的《我的世界》漫威对我说:“爸爸，"我只差7000人就能达到1000万它大约每秒上升一个。”Since he has mentioned this before, I knew he was speaking of a counter documenting how many people had purchased the PC/Mac version of the insanely popular video game, priced today at $26.95.
几分钟前，那个计数器打出了神奇的数字。(重要更新以下:虽然这个屏幕截图是真实的，但柜台上的数字不是。后来:现在正式了。)
由瑞典程序员创建马库斯。佩尔松“缺口”现在由Mojang《我的世界》的alpha版本于2009年5月发布。在2010年，当游戏还处于测试阶段时，它就变成了一个轰动，销量超过100万册。
我的三个11岁的孩子格兰特(Grant)、艾玛(Emma)和马克斯(Max)都非常喜欢我的世界，以至于我有时会听到Wii遥控器在客厅里哭泣。
(h / t格兰特麦克纳马拉)
(更新:罗伯·纽伯里在评论中指出，柜台数量已经跌回1000万以下。他说，这张照片“显然是赝品”。It's not. Here's my reply to that comment: I took the screen grab myself directly from the Minecraft.net homepage and most certainly did not fake it. When I returned to the open window with the site up (just now after seeing your comment) the 10,000,000 had risen beyond 10,006,000. When I hit refresh, it went back down to 9,997,790. Don't ask me why because I haven't the slightest idea. But I did spend way too much time this morning looking at that counter and jotting down numbers -- to gauge the rate -- and noticed on at least two other occasions that the number had backed up. Again, no idea why. But I know what I saw: The count hit 10,000,000, as you see in the picture -- I literally watched the last few hundred tick off -- and it chugged on by that number for quite some time. My best guess would be that there is and/or has been some kind of problem with the counter.)
更新2:根据一条微博《我的世界》的开发者Jens Bergensten说:“http://minecraft.net首页上的计数器只是一个脚本，真实的数据在/stats上。”And the "real stats" show the sale count still below 10 million and won't surpass that mark for再过五个小时左右。如果我没看错第一条推文，“just a script”的意思似乎是“我们主页上的这个柜台你可能会称之为扯淡。”I've sent Bergensten a tweet of my own asking why they would have an inaccurate counter - with no disclaimer - on their homepage.)
(更新3:现在的官方。)