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I am a very intelligent twelve year old, who has been playing minecraft since 1.8 beta. I have put countless hours into this gaming learning how to mod, skin, build, craft, mine, fight, and any other part of the game. Ever since some of the newer updates, a bit past the beta phase, I've been noticing a very large change in the minecraft community as a whole. The change would be the vast amount of children that have entered the once unique and fun community. Just a protip: Never call your intelligent, it just makes you look arrogant. Judging by this post, you are a very mature 12yr old, just be careful of what you say.

This is where the community is affected. Children became a major demographic is all minecraft related media. I'll talk about youtubers. A youtuber is a job. Not a hobby, a job. In my opinion, A youtuber is an active content maker that earns revenue through his/her videos. Most gaming youtubers would play minecraft, and would do what it takes to make themselves happy and their audience. Youtubers have to make money to live on, When a massive new demographic comes in, its time for change. Some youtubers, though maybe not all, may have to change how they act to appeal to a larger audience, but may cause original viewers to drift away.

I can definitely see this, kids are going to find the immature, vulgar, loud youtubers funny (Im looking at you Skydoesminecraft). This can explain why the more mature youtubers like the Mindcrack group aren't as popular.
Multiplayer: Kids are immature, that is how they are. Kids are also new human beings, incapable of grasping the size of the world. That also means they don't know how to act. Through personal experience, children can do some very immature things, like griefing, repeatedly cursing, hacker accusation, spamming and many more. It can be a big turn down for the community to join a server to be greeted by a kid with online power. This is one of the biggest parts that affects gameplay and can sometimes be irritating while trying to enjoy yourself.

For some reason most parents are unable to teach their children the way they should act in public. Most of those kids are under 8yrs old, unless they are some sort of social prodigy, they really shouldn't be on the internet. The only way to avoid these kids is to join 13+ servers, though, you can still find teens that still aren't mature enough.

Merchandise: The minecraft store used to be a nice little place where you could buy a hoodie or shirt, now its filled with little action figures and lego sets and others. A small change, but its worth mentioning.

Such is capitalism my friend. When companies see that they can make some money, they will gladly take the opportunity. Honestly, some of the miniature sets are pretty cool.

Generalization: By far the most irritating and frustrating part about this is that minecraft was a cool place when it WAS barely known. But now that everybody knows it, they only have knowledge of it starting from when they learned about it. Because of kids making it known, nearly all minecraft players can be stereotyped as little nerdy hunchbacked kids that have absolutely no social life, and that bothers me.

Don't be bothered by it, these kinds of insults aren't going to affect your life in anyway. Any mature person is not going to use stereotypes as a reference for the quality of a person.

I hope you can see some of the points I'm trying to make. If you disagree with me on anything, please comment below, as I would love a good civil argument.

Minecraft is a sandbox. There is no way for it to be assigned to any age. Sure, lots of kids play the game, but Minecraft can appeal to all ages. It allows you to play the game the way you want to play it.


Why I'm allowed to write this: I grew up in a large, two-story house, my parents are up to date on technology and make good money. I have had a computer since diapers. I could download by age 3 and could get torrents by age 8. I've played thousands of multiplayer games. I know how to act on the internet. The millions of kids I'm talking about don't. And thats why this upsets me. Um...Cool?