Minecraft
Why do people dislike minecraft
Submitted by BlitherLlama, 25-02-2016, 04:10 PM, Thread ID: 18722
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RE: Why do people dislike minecraft
06-02-2019, 12:51 AM
#250 This post was last modified: 06-02-2019, 12:53 AM by kadreyalta
Minecraft peaked its popularity around my sophomore year of high school back in 2011/2012.
Around that time it wasn't uncommon to see a fanbase of teenagers and young adults that took up the game as "digital legos".
The redstone contraptions is what caught my attention since it appealed to my computer science interest at the time with the numerous forum diagrams of redstone logic gates that resembled rudimentary CPU logic.
This was also around the time that people were watching a channel with a video series titled "overengineering" from St3venAU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHGAiKNPnlM
And this was also around the time that people were watching a channel named TeamAvolition which peaked programming interest at the time as it delved into reverse engineering code (Krysk claimed to not have used MCP to decompile his copy of Minecraft which means having to keep track of the obfuscated function/variable names and tons of trial-and-error early on): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19HvLsOclE
You'll notice that none of those two channels are around making Minecraft videos anymore as most of the fanbase shifted over from early adults and teenagers to younger children who took more interest in minigames than the programming and mechanical side of Minecraft that lurked under-the-hood.
The shift over to Microsoft pretty much sealed the deal for the game and with fond memories people have developed a strong distaste for the game; it was a popular thing to hate for some time. I sorta feel that sometimes people hate on Minecraft since it's a popular thing to hate and even though our hatred of the game isn't beneficial to us, we still opt to take on someone else's opinion of the game as our own just because everyone else is doing the same thing (almost unconsciously and that "follow the masses" mindset has been engraved in our evolution since it used to be a survival tactic many millennia ago).
I still hold fond memories of Minecraft and still in certain crowds I'll throw hate at the game and the community despite knowing that none of that hate from anyone in said crowds is genuine (just a facade to appeal to the masses with an opinion that was passed around like a penny; no real value to the opinion outside of the communities that gives said opinion any value/worth).
Around that time it wasn't uncommon to see a fanbase of teenagers and young adults that took up the game as "digital legos".
The redstone contraptions is what caught my attention since it appealed to my computer science interest at the time with the numerous forum diagrams of redstone logic gates that resembled rudimentary CPU logic.
This was also around the time that people were watching a channel with a video series titled "overengineering" from St3venAU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHGAiKNPnlM
And this was also around the time that people were watching a channel named TeamAvolition which peaked programming interest at the time as it delved into reverse engineering code (Krysk claimed to not have used MCP to decompile his copy of Minecraft which means having to keep track of the obfuscated function/variable names and tons of trial-and-error early on): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19HvLsOclE
You'll notice that none of those two channels are around making Minecraft videos anymore as most of the fanbase shifted over from early adults and teenagers to younger children who took more interest in minigames than the programming and mechanical side of Minecraft that lurked under-the-hood.
The shift over to Microsoft pretty much sealed the deal for the game and with fond memories people have developed a strong distaste for the game; it was a popular thing to hate for some time. I sorta feel that sometimes people hate on Minecraft since it's a popular thing to hate and even though our hatred of the game isn't beneficial to us, we still opt to take on someone else's opinion of the game as our own just because everyone else is doing the same thing (almost unconsciously and that "follow the masses" mindset has been engraved in our evolution since it used to be a survival tactic many millennia ago).
I still hold fond memories of Minecraft and still in certain crowds I'll throw hate at the game and the community despite knowing that none of that hate from anyone in said crowds is genuine (just a facade to appeal to the masses with an opinion that was passed around like a penny; no real value to the opinion outside of the communities that gives said opinion any value/worth).
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