UNBELIEVABLE: Minecraft STILL FUN?!

Hey man what I’m about to say is going to shock you did you know that Minecraft is 12 years old has it really been over a decade yeah Minecraft still pulls over 160 million monthly players today after 12 years it is still one of the most

Popular games out there so I went on to YouTube to see if there is any videos about the celebrating this Milestone all I found were videos talking about how Minecraft isn’t fun anymore why Minecraft is bad I mean it’s not surprising negativity thrives on the internet and the gaming space sure isn’t

Different but I’m an optimist so let’s talk about why Minecraft is still awesome if you’re like me you probably spend a large amount of your adolesence in this blocky world I recently loged back into my first ever Minecraft world my dogs steak and bacon were there and

After a brief walk through the forest I found the house me and my best friend built at the time someone who I haven’t spoken to since sixth grade but God this is bringing back memories we immediately found our favorite game oh my God what is that ah get away

Get away get away I loved Legos as a kid so Minecraft was perfect cuz essentially it was the same thing you could either follow the tutorials or scrap all that and just do whatever you wanted I love that creative freedom now my friend was far more into PVP and fighting than I

Ever was he’d go off and explore and try to kill as many mobs as he could wow I would stay behind and just build there truly was something for everybody in Minecraft at some point I even introduced my dad to the game and he loved it anyone could cater the

Experience to their preferences you could literally play any way you wanted more casual building approach PVP servers role play mods even s SMP servers came out and some of them had fully scripted stories like the dream SMP comes to mind now I do have to admit

I didn’t really follow the dream SMP I was too busy gramming organic chemistry into my brain but it did give rise to some of the most successful content creators out there some which have over 10 million subscribers on YouTube friendships have formed lives have changed because of this block game you

Spawn into this world with no goals no Direction there wasn’t much to do but what you could do was amazing you created your own world you created your own story now I was pretty bad at building well actually I was pretty bad at the entire game and that certainly

Hasn’t changed over the years but that did introduce me to the world of Minecraft YouTube which back in those days was a breath of fresh air I was terrible at building so it was really cool to be able to watch other people’s builds I really enjoyed Captain Sparkle’s videos he was my favorite

Minecraft Youtuber growing up and when I wasn’t playing Minecraft I’d be watching his videos but bit by bit my IRL friends started to lose interest in the game and I find myself getting bored playing by myself so I began going on to servers meeting new friends making new memories

And I eventually got introduced to the modding Community now I’m definitely too stupid to understand anything about modding but it was really cool to see what people could do with it time went on and new updates came out every update made the game more and more complex well

It was amazing to see all the new items Redstone Etc and especially what talented creators could do with the new items I I found myself yearning for the simpler experience the vanilla Minecraft that cow that wanders into your dirt starter house seeing the biggest Ravine ever and

Trying to push your friend in there that’s what made me fall in love with the game the clunkiness of its early years others will completely disagree they love the endless supply of items and mods to enhance their experience like I said there’s truly something out

There for everyone at the end of the day that’s what Gaming’s about creating an experience for you and your friends to enjoy and create memories that’s what Minecraft was about for me I met some amazing people playing Minecraft some of who I’m still in contact with today

Others who we’ve gone our separate ways the person’s gone but the memories and even our Minecraft world our build are still here that’s why I think dream and that W the content creat was so successful at the core of all their content was a group of friends having

Fun playing together all you need is a creative idea and a group of friends progressing together Minecraft is all about progression you spawn into an empty world with pretty much nothing and the game basically says good luck that progression going from nothing from that block of dirt or that piece of wood from

The first tree you drop down going from that to these giant houses and towers and castles and anything you can think of is amazing watching the world watching your world transform from emptiness to having every build speak volumes about your personality that’s the essence of Minecraft building

Putting your own Vision on paper and it’s all because of you your own hard work there’s no to win you want a diamond sword you better get Mining and start looking for diamonds there’s no in-game Amazon that’ll deliver an elytra to your front door so when I see these

Video is popping up everywhere talking about how Minecraft isn’t fun anymore how Minecraft is dying how the music is boring yeah somebody actually said that I mean like how can you hate the Minecraft music these videos these people they do have valid points Minecraft has been changing it

Constantly is with every update and even after all the changes even after how the community changed certainly not in a good way if you ever went on to Twitter is this game perfect no has it declin in quality that’s entirely debatable some people will say yes some people will say

It’s better than it’s ever been but there’s still room for improvement regardless of your opinion on the game Minecraft has already solidified itself as a Timeless classic other games typically become outdated because of the old Graphics or the lack of new content but I think Minecraft is unique because

It is experiencing this phenomenon where its simplistic art style and approachability have just created this Outreach that is so extensive the old players who would get bored or their lives get busy they leave get replaced by literally a new generation of players who are becoming old enough to start

Playing video games it would be as if somebody who started playing Minecraft and became a fan of the game back in 2009 has kids now they would introduce their kids to the game and for this reason I think that while the total player base will definitely Decline and

Reduce over time Minecraft will always be the video game equivalent to something like Lego something that most children experience as part of growing up and like with Lego some of these children just become lifelong fans of the game they never really truly leave you never truly quit Minecraft you just

Take a break or you change your play style so regardless of the update and your current view of the game the essence of Minecraft isn’t about how many items there are or what you can do grab a group of friends loog into a world and I’ll promise you you’ll have

Fun now a game is only as strong as its community and the Minecraft Community has definitely changed from when I started playing and sadly not a good way for a game this popular for a game of Minecraft size there’s bound to be toxicity in the fan base but it is such

A two-sided issue here on along side the community is angry at Mojang they not adding the features they want the mob votes a lot of the stuff that gets voted for never actually gets added and they don’t add any features that provide this extrinsic motivation you know things

That will change the way the game is played things that will add to the progression system survival mode combat and exploring is such a huge part of Minecraft that the community feels us getting neglected while moang is focused on adding intrinsically motivated features like the cherry blossoms for

Example the hanging signs and yeah they look really nice but for people who like to play Survival it doesn’t do a whole lot for them progression is such a huge desire and the progression system in Minecraft is hugely outdated you upgrade your tools your armor until you get the

Diamond variant and then you kill the Ender Dragon now moang did add neite which did add an extra tier to the progression list but this is something that’s at the core of Minecraft and very little being done about this it seems to me that Mojang feels like they have to

Sacrifice the intrinsic motivated features in order to add the extrinsic motivated features but it doesn’t have to be like that at all why not at both I mean I’m not a developer so I don’t really know what’s going on behind the scenes but I think this lack of transparency between Mojang and a

Community is something that’s really getting on a lot of people’s nerves but this goes both ways I briefly mentioned that negativity thrives on the internet and negative videos just do better that’s why so many people are making them every time somebody makes a negative video video about Minecraft

People will watch it and are inclined to agree with the points being made by the Creator which then creates a feedback loop into the community and pushes more negativity into the community combine this with a lot of the social isolation people are dealing with in today’s AE and people who are chronically online

You just have this Brewing pot of negativity that’s waiting to spill over and it already has in some ways look at all the Minecraft content creators who’ve been harassed online or sadly even IRL if you think that’s okay you honestly need to get off the internet and go outside you’re losing the essence

Of Minecraft with this people are forgetting what the true essence of playing Minecraft is it’s not about the features they add or what new Mobs they add it’s about having a group of friends a unique idea and just creating the world you Want