• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    47·
    7 days ago

    I remember being surprised that my friend’s ten year old kid was playing it back in 2012. The dude is about to get married.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    455·
    7 days ago

    Minecraft was always for kids. But they’re right that kids weren’t playing it at the very beginning. The alpha was $10 and you paid Notch directly

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 days ago

        Pretty sure it was PayPal, I dunno. My friend just sent me the exe and I played on the SomethingAwful server for a night

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        He is? The only things I know about him are that he made Minecraft and doesn’t like mechanical keyboards. What did he do that makes you hate him?

        • ArxCyberwolf
          7·
          6 days ago

          When he sold Minecraft to Microsoft he became a billionaire, quickly lost touch of reality, and fell down the right-wing pipeline to become a total shithead. He kept posting homophobic comments on Twitter, called for a heterosexual pride parade and suggested anyone opposed to one should be shot, and bought into the whole QAnon nonsense. There is a reason Minecraft hardly acknowledges his existence anymore, Mojang distanced themselves from him because of his behaviour.

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    201·
    6 days ago

    Began playing on a Survival server during early Beta. I was 20yo.

    Every time I hear someone say “Minecraft is for kids” I cringe. Try playing TPPI or The 1.12.2 pack. Either not for kids or for a very fucking smart bunch of kids.

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Let’s take a moment to talk about our 1.7.10 lord and saviour, GregTech New Horizons

      More seriously, depends on where your cutoff of “kids” is, but fuck gatekeeping things because they’re “for kids” - Minecraft is fine for kids, and it’s fine for adults. If you want to hop on your procedurally generated world and explore landscapes, or build houses while working for every block and managing the logistics, or build convoluted redstone contraptions in creative, that’s a great use of your entertainment time.

      And on modded Minecraft, I haven’t properly played GTNH, but I recommend The Lost Era if you want a nice 1.7.10 modpack with balanced progression that doesn’t try to be extreme. When playing it, I realized how many mods are being updated, and how much of that work seems to be done specifically for GTNH, so that’s extra appreciation I have for it.

        • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          A friend told me about one of the multiblocks in it… Maybe I’ll take a look one day, maybe. Maybe I should play GTNH first. We’re currently playing MeatballCraft, which has been pretty fun, will probably need a break after that.

  • Kowowow
    19·
    7 days ago

    Crouching and not falling off edges was game changing

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
    14·
    7 days ago

    When Minecraft came out my cousin showed it to me. I told him the graphics sucked and it would never be successful

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    131·
    7 days ago

    Game modes? Bah! Creative only. There were no mobs and the water blocks didn’t have physics!

    I became completely addicted in the real real early days, tried to get whoever I could to give it a shot, and then moved on after a few months. Fast forward nearly 5 years and one of my friends who had no interest in it suddenly sends a novel length IM to me all about this awesome new game, Minecraft.

    Minorly annoyed that they didn’t keep to the idea that early buyers would have access to future versions across all platforms, but I’ve more than got my (I think) $8 out of it.

  • Zannsolo@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 days ago

    I bought it in alpha, while I do like it it’s not really my kind of game but I’ve always appreciated what it was and knew that it was a fantastic game.