Just an hour ago, almost a million people were playing Minecraft, Mojang’s Nathan Adams said on Twitter:
There are currently over 998,000 people playing Minecraft right at this moment. It is not even remotely close to being a peak time.
— Nathan Adams (@Dinnerbone) January 9, 2015
For a point of comparison, Steam says that the number of simultanous Dota 2 players peaked at 913,625. Step your game up, Dota!