Since early 2011.
Makes me a veteran too I believe :)

I've played Minecraft in the past about 8 years ago but I've only recently gotten back in to playing ever since the new resurgence of popularity on YouTube and all that kind of stuff.

i started on pe in 1.12, but joined pc at 1.13.2.

i started java in 1.14
i started the version on a phone 10/24/2018

I started playing in March 2018. How young I feel.)

I started playing around 1.7ish...? It was a long time ago, although I do like playing on the super old versions.

Since May 28th, 2011 on beta 1.6.something, back in the days when food healed instantly and zombies dropped feathers.

Since 2011-ish... I don't remember exactly but it was a bit before I moved in 2012, which was my 4th grade year- I'm a senior now, so that makes it 8-9 years.

I first started playing...proabably four or fiveish years ago? I started on ps3 console edition, and only at the pestering of a family friend, and only after I insisted I wouldnt try it unless he paid for it. He showed up to a family event one night and was like "Here ya go! I bought it for you!"

I know it was before we had comparators but after we got pistons. Also console edition was always funky compared to java and even bedrock. But I still made quite a few things I was very proud of and should find screenshots of. I just always got really depressed in my single player worlds and quit them after a while because I couldn't find a reason why I was doing it.

Youtube has kind of kept me going with MC this time around, since you always have a reason to keep building more stuff and doing more things. Of course, still abandoned the SP world since life is much easier on a server xD

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I bought the Java edition May 11th, 2012 (You can check on Mojang's website). I was a freshman in college, about to finish my first year.

Best twenty bucks I ever spent, I've been playing the same survival map pretty much since then.

I found out about the game in like mid 2012 and watched videos on it and played pocket edition until I got a Java edition account in January of 2013.

I can't remember but I bought the game while it was still 16 dollars or somat like that. Hmm. Before the End was put in. Before Endermen. Ahh, I remember when there was speculation that they were from the Farlands! Fun stuff. But I have no sense of time so I have no clue how long ago that was.