You boot up your old pc with a pentium and a radeon ati graphics card, load up internet explorer to find out a certain game is released, you jump with joy. what game you may ask? Minecraft.
You rush to the Minecraft website to buy yourself a copy of the game and you go through the lengthy process to install it. You load up the game. You press ‘load world’ and your greeted by a blocky world, filled with trees and wildlife. Although the world doesn’t have much grass nor flowers, your encapsulated by the endless possibilities awaiting your adventure.
This is what made the game a skyrocketing success. From personal experience playing the game at launch and in modern times, you feel how much the game had progressed, with more variety in blocks and loads more wildlife, more caves and just more… everything. Nearly everyone who first played the game was in awe at the amazing graphics. You may not say that it’s rather amazing graphics wise, but remember. This is 2011
Everyone who was playing the first release of Minecraft was still playing counter strike source. When you compare both games, you start to understand how much the game was different to the 4 million people in 2011.
The game was simple yet complicated, it was easy yet hard at the same time. It was unique. This blend of risk and reward and simplicity is what attracted so many people to the game at first. On top of that, the low minimum requirements for the game allowed anyone to run it.
It still is one of the most played games today, with 141 million players since launch and it’s only been that way with YouTubers such as Pewdiepie launching an insanely popular survival series back in 2019 that saw a resurgence of people playing Minecraft again.
Many people still play this game, including me, and will probably keep that way for a long time, but, like with everything, it will at sometime come to an end.
Produced by a 16 year old btw 🙂
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