Why do people dislike minecraft

Most see the game as too simple but don't see the true light in the game, Most don't understand the premise for the game and how it appeals to many adults and kids alike, Obviously the reputation doesn't help when it is implied its for children but it doesn't say anything about adults which is why it looks like a wall between.

They dislike it because over time as the years progressed the age of players has decreased, back in 2011 it was primarily older males. If you look at 2b2t you can see this massive age gap between OG's and new players.

I did enjoy it a few years ago. I ran a few servers and played a couple of tekkit servers. I got bored of the regular game and got addicted to building nuclear reactors.

It can be WERY well manipulated with plugins and that can make gameplay much more experiencing.

Most people just check it as a toddler's game.

Sometimes it does feel like that.

Other times... it's pretty fun.

25-02-2016, 04:10 PM

BlitherLlama Wrote: Dont get me wrong, i know its a childish sort of game, but if somebody plays it for fun and enjoys it, why do people give so much shit for adults that play it?

I would say for that reason but i agree if it is fun then play it. there is a lot people can do with redstone that takes a lot of planning

ill say couse of the young kids rageing at this game, but there are no reasons to really hate this game

yeah im not sure why the game is my life played it since it game out people are silly

I have some friends who dislike minecraft, they have never played it, but they hate it, i think is because it make reminds them the Lego blocks or maybe they are angry that the game is simple and better known than their favorite games and they get angry for it

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).