• Zannsolo@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 minutes 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.

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    We started playing Minecraft at school during alpha.

    Did some of class work for electronics class with redstone instead of the logic circuit simulator program. (Well I tried to anyway, it’s a lot slower if need to build the gates)

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    10 hours 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
      8·
      3 hours 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.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    48·
    23 hours 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

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours 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@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 hour 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.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 hours 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

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    44·
    1 day 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.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
    14·
    22 hours 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
    17·
    24 hours 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.