I Agree With You Mostly But I have One Point To Argue. If MC Stayed The Same Forever Can You Honestly Say You Would Stay Interested? I have To Say It Would Take Me About 3 Months To Step out Of MC For A While. Then Again, I May come back Later And Discover Everything For the Second Time. Im not Trying To be A Jerk And Argue Just To Argue, But I think The Updates Are Simply Mojang's Way of Trying To Keep Us Interested.

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It's more eloquent, has actual orthography and grammar and makes sincere attempts to include arguments. But in the end, it's still little more than the "modern Mincraft sucks"-whining you hear in forums all the time.

To repeat something I said on the PMC forum, MC is about doing what you want to do. Overall, the thing that changes the most is that more possibilities come, more things you can possibly do. I can't really say anything about potions or enchanting (honestly, I'm surprised that you made some actual and, in a way, actually comprehensible arguments here, as your kind normally just bitches about them without a rhyme or reason), since I never did much with it. But I never saw a reason to think that I have to do anything with them.

But I like the hunger bar. Old health regeneration was rather easy, since you would instantly gain health just by eating something. WIth the hunger, it's harder, since you have to be well-fed and only gradually gain health. And that's really not a big thing, since there are so many and easy ways to get food. Especially growing crops.

The only thing I really agree with is that it's way too easy to place stairs upside-down by accident. But even that I don't see as a so horrible thing. Facepalming about it seems like an exaggerated reaction to me.

I've played since beta 1.5 or 1.6, can't remember exactly, I just know it was before the adventure update. I understand the concerns with how confusing it is, I was having trouble keeping up with patches, my friends would tell me about the patch notes and I would be so lost. But that's the beauty of the game, is I didn't understand potions, so I didn't make them. Anything too complex for your liking you can just avoid, besides the hunger bar aspect. But in reality it's not that big of a deal. There are so many sources of food in the game, you can keep yourself constantly fed.

All the updates are really doing are adding new ways to play the game. For example, I'm a redstone guy, and I'm excited for the announcement for 1.5, because it gives me more options. One of my friends is a farmer and is glad they added in more crops. It caters to lots of different playstyles, and in my opinion makes it more fun to play multiplayer with friends, because you share the burden. There's always ways to get what you enjoy out of the game, if you're looking for alpha state, play creative or download minecraft classic for free. If you're talking about beta, pre 1.8, it's still possible to get a similar experience if not exactly. Avoid the things you dislike, and enjoy it the way you want, I really don't understand people's concern in this aspect. Minecraft has removed very few things, and has simply added content for a wider array of playstyles.

Just my opinion on it, take it with a grain of salt. I like how chimneyswift11 on youtube put it, and a lot of his feelings are similar to mine, I'll leave that here if you want to hear it said in a better way.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-t1V-n_zB4&feature=share&list=UUVzbLPpZ_VMqDzUtmN3uU9A

i think of minecraft positively not negative because i want minecraft to get very realistic and the future of minecraft is what keeps me up to enjoy minecraft and besides the food resources are my starter basics in minecraft. nothing is hard until you know your way around the crafting and survival.

I dont get whats so bad about being able to play tf2 in minecraft, have custom potions, sprinting, make bosses out of regular mobs, make better minigames, make better server, custom maps and tons of other things. Minecraft is special becouse its not just the same game, but it changes.

Guys if you want the old minecraft, just downgrade.

Well, I'm okay with hunger, though it gets really annoying to get hungry so quickly. But what I really hate, is the enchanting/potions. People with super protected diamond armor, unbreaking diamond swords with fire aspect, sharpness, and smite or something like that, is really unfair. Especially on PvP servers (Which I also hate, hardly ever go on, but that's about all there is), when some guy will come out with all that and here'll be me flailing an unenchanted iron sword and armor at the guy, and then, running towards each other. . . Bam! Poison, poison, instant damage, flick of sword, dead. Really though, I think, what it is, is that they need to make enchanting harder or something.

P.S I've only played since 1.0. Now, I know I probably don't know as much as some of you, but, I know about the things in past updates enough, like no food bars, instant healing by eating, the weird frog girl Rana (who was only in the game for a small amount of time) and how zombies used to wear armor (now they do again). But, yes, I have to agree on enchanting.