Why Minecraft?

I guess this is a blog about, well, you can tell from the title, "Why Minecraft?"

Because, well, at face value, Minecraft stinks. Terrible graphics, silly gameplay (punching trees!?) and scary monsters. This all fuel why not to play Minecraft. So why do I think Minecraft has done so well, um... mainly because it has such an original idea that no one cares about anything but the idea. It isn't a game like today where it is literally stuff like, kill this amount of enemies and destroy this much stuff, it has no instructions whatsoever and I would hope that it stays like that.

How did people even find this game, people can't just wake up in the morning and say, I am going to find the most original game out there. To be totally honest, I was looking for a mod that would modify Command and Conquer (ftw)
on a website. On the pop reel came Minecraft. Looking into it I literally said out loud, "this game looks so dumb!" Just like that. Few days later, Alpha 1.2.6 or something like that happened and saw it again, and I just had to get that game because I saw that it wasn't just the graphics that make a game great, but of what the idea of the gameplay is about. Take pac-man so many people play it still... okay, bad example... anyway, you get my point (I hope).

I guess what i'm asking is how did you find Minecraft and what were you thinking when you first saw it?

-Ninjahunter120