So I'm hearing about how a lot of old players are leaving the game because they feel it is getting too complicated. I guess this wouldn't be too hard to try, but I'm wondering if it might be worth starting a 1.3 server to relive the glory days of the game.
While nostalgia servers aren't my thing, I do see a potential market for it. Question: Why 1.3? Typical choices are usually a Beta or even Alpha build. Not saying variety wouldn't be bad, just wondering.
So I'm hearing about how a lot of old players are leaving the game because they feel it is getting too complicated. I guess this wouldn't be too hard to try, but I'm wondering if it might be worth starting a 1.3 server to relive the glory days of the game.
While nostalgia servers aren't my thing, I do see a potential market for it. Question: Why 1.3? Typical choices are usually a Beta or even Alpha build. Not saying variety wouldn't be bad, just wondering.
Yup, I'd be far more interested in a 1.7.3 Beta server.
Just a reminder, this thread will be allowed to continue only so long as it remains a general server concept thread. Any discussions about creating a specific server or advertising/requesting access to a specific server will need to be moved to the Servers forum section.
While nostalgia servers aren't my thing, I do see a potential market for it. Question: Why 1.3? Typical choices are usually a Beta or even Alpha build. Not saying variety wouldn't be bad, just wondering.
I started playing in Alpha. Though personally my favorite old version is Beta 1.7.3 My favorite "new" version would be 1.7.10 however it's not very nostalgic.
I generally find nostalgia to be a rather deceptive thing as we tend to reminisce about the past with rose glasses on. When you do get a chance to go back to the old stuff, at first it is: oh the glory days! Then it is: oh it is lacking this feature I am really used to... and that one... this sucks.... followed by: how could I ever stand to play this dinosaur, I am out of here!
The absolutely necessary key ingredient to old glory days is the old you: about to experience it for the first time. And that aint coming back no matter which version you try running.
I generally find nostalgia to be a rather deceptive thing as we tend to reminisce about the past with rose glasses on. When you do get a chance to go back to the old stuff, at first it is: oh the glory days! Then it is: oh it is lacking this feature I am really used to... and that one... this sucks.... followed by: how could I ever stand to play this dinosaur, I am out of here!
The absolutely necessary key ingredient to old glory days is the old you: about to experience it for the first time. And that aint coming back no matter which version you try running.
Tahnk you for getting my point of view about old minecraft!
I generally find nostalgia to be a rather deceptive thing as we tend to reminisce about the past with rose glasses on. When you do get a chance to go back to the old stuff, at first it is: oh the glory days! Then it is: oh it is lacking this feature I am really used to... and that one... this sucks.... followed by: how could I ever stand to play this dinosaur, I am out of here!
The absolutely necessary key ingredient to old glory days is the old you: about to experience it for the first time. And that aint coming back no matter which version you try running.
Well, there are people like me who have literally never moved on; July 1 will mark the fifth year since the version I have never upgraded past was released, which in turn is nearly the same to me as the version I started playing in (I've never actually used horses and only used stained clay when building a basic secondary base in a mesa biome in a modded world in the exact same way I normally use cobblestone; the main feature of 1.6 for me was coal blocks - now I could mine 2,000 coal ore in one sitting and compact it into a few stacks of blocks). I don't see anything about newer versions that would make me want to play them either; some of the features, like Mending, are just hacks to replace removed features (renaming an item so you can repair it indefinitely; I actually made a mod for 1.8 that completely reverted anvils because of this, of course, I never actually used it myself).
I first said this more than 4 years ago - and the exact same still applies to this day, with the last bit even less likely that it was back then since I've gone off to create my own "version" of the game (back then my mods were far simpler and little more than changing cave generation, now they change just about everything, including more than just world generation, and produce worlds which are as different from 1.6 as 1.7 is, but very different from 1.7 as well):
Posted by TheMasterCaver Feb 24, 2014
As for myself, I haven't even used 1.7 yet for my main worlds; I do use some mods (but nothing game-changing), but in terms of how I play the game there is nothing new (if anything, they made the game worse by removing giant cave systems, though it is easy to mod them back in). I've even added a few 1.7 features into my game, such as natural spawning of witches, and at this point 1.6.2 (didn't even bother with 1.6.4) will probably be the last version of the game I ever actually play on, unless some really big feature comes in down the line (of course I'll still mod the game, e.g. cave generation, unless they add some sort of world generation options, and restoring the old anvil repair/renaming system).
Of course, this probably isn't classifiable as "nostalgia" since it is by definition a wanting to revisit the past as you remembered it (I would definitely find returning to 1.5 to be limiting, and much more so for older versions from before I started playing).
I generally find nostalgia to be a rather deceptive thing as we tend to reminisce about the past with rose glasses on. When you do get a chance to go back to the old stuff, at first it is: oh the glory days! Then it is: oh it is lacking this feature I am really used to... and that one... this sucks.... followed by: how could I ever stand to play this dinosaur, I am out of here!
The absolutely necessary key ingredient to old glory days is the old you: about to experience it for the first time. And that aint coming back no matter which version you try running.
While I agree this is the case with some games this isn't the case in my personal experience. I play 1.7.3 Beta whenever I'm in the mood and I don't find it very lacking as I had said I started in Alpha so it has more content than when I started and I either don't care for/don't use some of the additions as they don't add anything of value. That's not including the additions I absolutely abhor. My only challenge when playing 1.7.3 Beta, even though I was a strictly single player person back then is missing out playing with others, however that does not stop me from playing for hours without getting bored.
So I'm hearing about how a lot of old players are leaving the game because they feel it is getting too complicated. I guess this wouldn't be too hard to try, but I'm wondering if it might be worth starting a 1.3 server to relive the glory days of the game.
Or it may just be me rambling.
While nostalgia servers aren't my thing, I do see a potential market for it. Question: Why 1.3? Typical choices are usually a Beta or even Alpha build. Not saying variety wouldn't be bad, just wondering.
Yup, I'd be far more interested in a 1.7.3 Beta server.
Just a reminder, this thread will be allowed to continue only so long as it remains a general server concept thread. Any discussions about creating a specific server or advertising/requesting access to a specific server will need to be moved to the Servers forum section.
- sunperp
Why Beta 1.7? I would've thought release 1.7.
Because that's when I started playing.
I started playing in Alpha. Though personally my favorite old version is Beta 1.7.3 My favorite "new" version would be 1.7.10 however it's not very nostalgic.
I generally find nostalgia to be a rather deceptive thing as we tend to reminisce about the past with rose glasses on. When you do get a chance to go back to the old stuff, at first it is: oh the glory days! Then it is: oh it is lacking this feature I am really used to... and that one... this sucks.... followed by: how could I ever stand to play this dinosaur, I am out of here!
The absolutely necessary key ingredient to old glory days is the old you: about to experience it for the first time. And that aint coming back no matter which version you try running.
Tahnk you for getting my point of view about old minecraft!
Well, there are people like me who have literally never moved on; July 1 will mark the fifth year since the version I have never upgraded past was released, which in turn is nearly the same to me as the version I started playing in (I've never actually used horses and only used stained clay when building a basic secondary base in a mesa biome in a modded world in the exact same way I normally use cobblestone; the main feature of 1.6 for me was coal blocks - now I could mine 2,000 coal ore in one sitting and compact it into a few stacks of blocks). I don't see anything about newer versions that would make me want to play them either; some of the features, like Mending, are just hacks to replace removed features (renaming an item so you can repair it indefinitely; I actually made a mod for 1.8 that completely reverted anvils because of this, of course, I never actually used it myself).
I first said this more than 4 years ago - and the exact same still applies to this day, with the last bit even less likely that it was back then since I've gone off to create my own "version" of the game (back then my mods were far simpler and little more than changing cave generation, now they change just about everything, including more than just world generation, and produce worlds which are as different from 1.6 as 1.7 is, but very different from 1.7 as well):
Of course, this probably isn't classifiable as "nostalgia" since it is by definition a wanting to revisit the past as you remembered it (I would definitely find returning to 1.5 to be limiting, and much more so for older versions from before I started playing).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
While I agree this is the case with some games this isn't the case in my personal experience. I play 1.7.3 Beta whenever I'm in the mood and I don't find it very lacking as I had said I started in Alpha so it has more content than when I started and I either don't care for/don't use some of the additions as they don't add anything of value. That's not including the additions I absolutely abhor. My only challenge when playing 1.7.3 Beta, even though I was a strictly single player person back then is missing out playing with others, however that does not stop me from playing for hours without getting bored.
Simpler is often better to put it simply.