i have played Minecraft since i was 10. watching Minecraft videos since i was 8. by no means have i known about Minecraft since the beginning, but i have seen the change.
growing up makes me feel sad for this reason. i see things change and reminisce on what once was. never wanting to go back per se, but acknowledging the simplicity of that time.
i've seen the shift in Minecraft Youtubers. starting out watching Stampy made me want to be creative and build my own Fun Land. have a house so big that you could get lost in it. go to the moon. Stampy made kids and anyone alike play Minecraft just for the sake of it.
i then watched iHasCupquake. she opened up a world of mods and immersing yourself in a story only you can create. she also played with one of the most interesting mods called More Creeps and Weirdos which i still enjoy today.
i found LDShadowlady soon after and fell in love. her gameplays were so casual and fun at the same time, showing you don't need to play any game so seriously.
getting more into mods, i found DanTDM. i loved watching his mod reviews and discovering mods that i could play with that wouldn't put viruses on my mom's computer.
i soon entered middle school and was still playing Minecraft. making my own modpacks and struggling to install shaderpacks to play just like cupquake and LDShadowlady.
i saw the shift. version 1.12 came out. i remember watching a video of all the new things added to this version and didn't know how to feel. they added new blocks which i hated. it's one of the things that always stood out to me and i still throw those blocks away after mining.
Minecraft was still okay. these updates from 1.7.10 were not extreme. then the deeper caves update came out.
by this time, i was playing Minecraft less and less due to high school and ultimately entering college. with other updates, it was easy to leave and come back. after this update, not so much. different mobs, new rules of where you could find certain ores, new crafting recipes,etc.
it was now overwhelming to play the game I loved so dearly. i could easily study up and always have a guide open, but that's not fun.
i once was an expert. knowing every little thing possible even the commands to knowing nothing. biome names became foreign and i had more questions typed into Google than i ever had.
i became a hater of modern Minecraft just as non-gamers were bullies to others who played this game when i was a kid.
beginning to play in older versions made me happy. i was having more fun this way. it was never about memorizing every crafting recipe or every new biome or anything like that. it was about the freedom and creativity with less things to do.
i feel this was a big reason as to why players were so creative at this time as well. they had to use blocks they would never think to use to make what they wanted.
this became why old Minecraft had always been more appealing to me. even when 1.6.4 and 1.7.10 were out, i would watch cupquake's old series in beta. i wanted to experience how it felt to play like many did before me. how they had fun with less than i had. it was fun.
i started to notice something. YouTube shifted. Minecraft YouTubers shifted. it was no longer about making series and having 100 episodes using a modpack and making it yours. it became about hardcore Minecraft. "doing [insert impressive thing here] in 100 days."
it was becoming exhausting to see everyone trying to do the next big thing. to get a million views on a video. to go viral. i was starting to hate how Minecraft was being treated.
i could only rely on my favorite YouTubers for content. if they were even making videos or even Minecraft for that matter. it was sad seeing YouTubers go and finding less and less people who were recording videos for the love of Minecraft. People who actually are making videos for them instead of what will get them the most views.
i began rewatching old series, which i always did, but they stayed on repeat. there were no new videos to come to. for the most part at least.
that was until i found one YouTuber named LuvstarKei. they check every box for what i've been looking for. they play for the fun of it not trying to go viral.
LDShadowlady and iHasCupquake have also returned to Minecraft recently so that has been great to see.
in conclusion of this long-winded post about how Minecraft and YouTubers have changed, i was heavily inspired by a video i saw today by Klei_Wright.
the video is titled: "Minecraft punishes causal players. I made a datapack to fix it." it resonated with me deeply as it's a similar thing that i've complained about for years.
i would recommend watching the video as it is a very interesting take on Minecraft regardless of how you feel.
[NOTE: i have a similar thing that maybe i would make a post about. i recently started playing the original Animal Crossing on the GameCube and have similar sentiments in comparison to New Horizons.]
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