Minecraft may be seeing more and more console releases start to roll out, but more than 12 million players still play the ultimate sandbox game on its original platform, the computer. Now, one of the game's developers has put together a handy graph to see the kinds of operating systems that Minecraft's PC players use to play, with a surprising amount of players still using 13-year-old software.
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Mojang developer Nathan Adams, also known as Dinnerbone, tweeted out a graph of player operating systems yesterday after looking through Minecraft's snooper data. You can find the full graph over on Adams' website. As you might expect, not everyone has updated their computer to the lastest operating system, but some players aren't even using an operating system from this decade.
More than half of all Minecraft PC players run still Windows 7, not having upgraded since Windows 8 came out in 2012. The most recent Windows operating system, Windows 8.1, holds the second largest player base, though it's still only a fraction of the dominant Windows 7 audience. The third-most used operating system is a bit of a surprise: 2001's Windows XP. The teenaged operating system is still used by almost one out of every ten Minecraft PC players, more than those that play on Mac OS X and Linux combined.
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This one is scary. Twice as much people using XP than OSX. Twice as much people using Vista (!?) than Linux... https://t.co/IDOCWcU8Qt
— Nathan Adams (@Dinnerbone) December 4, 2014
If any game were to be played on decade-old software, though, Minecraft is a perfect candidate. The game's hilariously low system requirements make it possible for it to be run on fairly old technology, as long as a fairly current version of Java is installed.
PC Minecraft players recently received the game's 1.8.1 patch, which cleared up plenty of bugs that were left over from the 1.8 "Bountiful Update."
