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About a week ago I had to change my minecraft-related profile picture on youtube, because all it was doing was inducing major flame wars. Every comment I posted on a video would result in a 100 comment argument about how minecraft is for "little kids" and I should grow up. It's just people judging me left, right and centre for enjoying a game apparently targeted at 10 year olds.
But is that really true? Is minecraft specifically targeted towards the younger demographics?
Speaking from my opinion, I think Minecraft has no specific target. It's goal is to just create an environment anyone can enjoy. I don't see what fundamentals of the game make it appear as a younger childrens game, apart from the graphics, which honestly play no part. Why is it the graphics that define Minecraft? If anything I think it's what makes the game unique. If you are against the graphics, resource packs can be installed in the click of a few buttons.
Looking at the community of the game, children avoiding the game is adviced... Constant flame being thrown, trash talking, insults, the list goes on. Little children should not hear and intake any of the language used in our community. It's discourteous, disrespectful and the last thing we would want to hear come out of a childs mouth.
Regarding the basics and essentials of the game, it may seem like it was created for a younger audience. But the game does require a bit of knowledge to know exactly what's going on. It took me over a month of playing to fully understand what I was doing and had a decent knowledge of the game. The critics that only played for a short period of time, or not at all and haven't fully dug down into all the nuts and bolts of the game.
It's prejudiced, because all the teenagers have adapted to "good games" being first person shooters or having astounding 1024x graphics, when that isn't the purpose of it all. Just because you can't shoot a gun or throw a grenade doesn't make it a bad game. People just need to "dig deeper" (no pun intended) into the game before they can jump to any conclusions.
But is that really true? Is minecraft specifically targeted towards the younger demographics?
Speaking from my opinion, I think Minecraft has no specific target. It's goal is to just create an environment anyone can enjoy. I don't see what fundamentals of the game make it appear as a younger childrens game, apart from the graphics, which honestly play no part. Why is it the graphics that define Minecraft? If anything I think it's what makes the game unique. If you are against the graphics, resource packs can be installed in the click of a few buttons.
Looking at the community of the game, children avoiding the game is adviced... Constant flame being thrown, trash talking, insults, the list goes on. Little children should not hear and intake any of the language used in our community. It's discourteous, disrespectful and the last thing we would want to hear come out of a childs mouth.
Regarding the basics and essentials of the game, it may seem like it was created for a younger audience. But the game does require a bit of knowledge to know exactly what's going on. It took me over a month of playing to fully understand what I was doing and had a decent knowledge of the game. The critics that only played for a short period of time, or not at all and haven't fully dug down into all the nuts and bolts of the game.
It's prejudiced, because all the teenagers have adapted to "good games" being first person shooters or having astounding 1024x graphics, when that isn't the purpose of it all. Just because you can't shoot a gun or throw a grenade doesn't make it a bad game. People just need to "dig deeper" (no pun intended) into the game before they can jump to any conclusions.
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At the beginning it wasn't as well known as Minecraft is today, and most of the people who supported it came from the major internet communities such as 4chan, tumblr, reddit, etc. which made the age range anywhere from old enough to have a computer to old enough to live in a retirement home.
Eventually Minecrafts popularity exploded, and everybody seemed to want in on the action, especially children from 9-13. This was around the time multiplayer servers were introduced, and having those servers made it clear to anyone that was playing that most of the people in the servers were younger. Unfortunately this is probably what drove away older players to move onto other games, as children tend to behave the wrong way when something goes wrong. (As a side note, the flame wars that you suggest children avoid, are usually started by children using bad language that they are too young to be using.)
Mojang knew fully well that the game was slowly losing its older audience, and still gaining popularity with younger players, which is why they started liscensing Minecraft toys to make sure that even if all the older players were gone, they would stay relevant with the kids, and thus Minecraft would live on to this day.
^Should I make this a blog post?
And should never get one.
People who don't understand the Game will say it's for children.
But who really knows it.... Mod, ResourcePacks, Skins, etc.
Infinite expansion possibilities.
It's not just "one" Game, with enough knowledge it's whatever you want,
no matter the age you have.
minecraft crushes all
(yay modding!)