Minecraft is now older than most of the kids who play it
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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It always has been, post Microsoft at least.
I was definitely a kid when I bought it back in alpha...
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.
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)
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.
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
It's true, I went to his apartment and slipped $10 under the door.
Pretty sure it was PayPal, I dunno. My friend just sent me the exe and I played on the SomethingAwful server for a night
What do you mean it was always for kids? It's for everyone. Fuck Notch, though. What a piece of shit he is.
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?
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.
Fair enough, thank you for the information.
I didn't say it wasn't for adults
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.
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.
GTNH is a beautiful beautiful modpack. But have you ever played supersymmetry
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.
Crouching and not falling off edges was game changing
Yeah, no. We were kids. (6-23yo)
Speak for yourself, I was 25!
Can't believe you were 15511210043330985984000000 years old.
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Ok boomer.
✊ The Struggle is real...age comes for us all....you little shit 👴
We are not hip and young anymore 🫠
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.
When Minecraft came out my cousin showed it to me. I told him the graphics sucked and it would never be successful
This is right up there with me saying Bitcoin was stupid and would never catch on. I then patted myself on the back when it crashed after it first hit a value of $10 USD lmao.
I mean, you were half right, half extremely wrong
graphics sucked and it would never be successful
oof, aged like milk 🤣
Double aged like milk
- minecraft is extremely successful
- high quality graphics are now often undesirable
- once you install a shader, Minecraft becomes quite pretty IMO
Yes, I try to remind myself of that regularly to stay humble
I played Minecraft Beta (2011) when I was a pre-teen thanks to my brother introducing me to it
Minecraft wasn't for kids
Jesus Christ.
Don't you remember all the nudity, profanity, and gore Minecraft used to have?
lara croft's pixel boobs were nothing compared to that
Putting mods in original Minecraft almost made me smash the computer