Minecraft is an independently developed video game set an open world. It was originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. The ability to create and build Minecraft allows players to build buildings by building texture blocks in a 3D world.
30 million PC copies
They released the on Windows version of the game in November 2011. The massively popular sandbox game Minecraft has never stopped growing in the market. It is now the best selling game on PC with 30 million copies as Mojang announced. In fact, the last shared sale figure of the PC version of the game is way back in January of 2017 with 25 million sale milestone. So that means in the last two years the game has sold 5 more million copies.
The total number of Minecraft players was over 150 million, including those who registered to play the Chinese version for free last year. So far, the full number of game copies sold is 154 million across all platforms which made it the second best-sold game ever after Tetris, according to Windows Central statistics in September 2018. Although all Minecraft is always trying to develop other versions. The Java version is probably still the most popular in the community. Thus it is definitely the version that you will find most of the best Minecraft mods.
Xbox Game Pass for Minecraft
In addition, Minecraft has recently been featured in the Xbox Game Pass - Microsoft's fee-based service for Xbox One players based on a monthly subscription model. This service will allow players to access a copyrighted game library and can download it without buying. But they must be registered and still within the Xbox Game Pass. Simply put, you pay a monthly service fee to play some "free" games, similar to Netflix or Prime Video watching services. At the moment you can find and play the game on virtually all the platforms. That includes Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.