Reasons Why Minecraft Sucks Now

I will be coming up with SOME of the ideas why Minecraft is terrible. I could care less about the fanboys who will be butthurt that I talk shit about Minecraft. But for those who can take criticism and notice something that makes the game horrible (if it hasn't been said yet) go right ahead and add something to the list. I left some of the top 10 blocks blank (3-6) for the people to think up of something.
The Top Ten
1 Fanbase

The Minecraft-fanbase is so full and packed with 5 - 11 year old kids who curse and think they're cool. Also, annoying little kids are lead into this game by idiots without jobs, like "StampyLongHead", or whatever his name is.

These "YouTubers" are very bad influence. They teach cussing, they keep our kids from doing homework and learning and so on. Also, it won't be able to ban Minecraft-content from YouTube, because this game is basically 60% of YouTube.

I remember, when I first played Minecraft, a few years ago, it wasn't such a big, overrated game. Actually, it was underrated and no one knew it. It wasn't a big game, just blocks and the rest was your mind and creativity. The old, nice times...

The truth is, the Fan-base is just way too big now for the game to be likeable. I started playing Minecraft nearly three and a half years ago (Version 1.2). At this time only the geeks in the corner knew about it, multi-player servers were never as packed and the game had a far more irregular, thrown together and make-do feel that made it so loveable. It was still full of bugs and it's content was far smaller, which was in ways limiting, but it made you use your brain more and ultimately made your achievement's far more satisfying. Also, because it was smaller, the Fan-base felt closer and far easier to relate to.
Nowadays, the Fan-base is annoyingly large. The game has lost it's independence, it's became far more advanced, which is nice but it has lead to the community being flooded with 9 year old's with no imagination or skill at all. Servers are now jammed full of these players and now everyone knows what Minecraft is. It's became despicably mainstream! YouTube is now overwhelmed by "Let's play's" none of which get any attention at all. Smiths now sell tutorial books so noobs can all progress to the same, dull level of experience without having to think about the game even slightly. Now even Lego have a product range! I'd need over one-hundred hands to count the number of kid's T-Shirts I see with Creepers plastered on them. In summary it's no wonder that Notch quit Mojang, that level of exposure to the modern Minecraft Community is enough to drive anyone insane.

2 Lag

You don't need 8gb of ram to run the game entirely if you have a average regular computer, even you can play it with early 2010's graphics card. It's better if you lower the graphics and the render distance. It can run with weak graphics card or without one.

People stop complaining about lag. First of all Minecraft is an endless game so your computer has to load lots of area. Second of all, if you want to have a good pc gaming experience, get a pc that can handle games! You're not just gonna pull out your intel pentium 1998 computer out of your basement are you? It is a the same for every other pc game as well. If you want to remedy this just get a low lag texture pack like OCD by disc0. Finally, the only thing that Minecraft should lag on is servers, and that happens very infrequently.

Because there are so many Minecraft fanboys who are addicited to the game and stay on for HOURS and HOURS, the mutliplayer sucks as there are often too many players on a server for the average computer to handle. Most Minecraft fanboys have old househole computers with probally intergrated graphic cards and about 4 gigs of ram - not good enough for 12fps+ mutliplayer with the average household internet. They probally cannot run Minecraft above 30fps at most and will break those aging computers they are playing on eventaually. Some people have good enough computers to play, but most don't

3 Rules YouTube

my sister used to watch Minecraft Five Nights at Freddys, which channel has around 1 million subscribers, 4 thousand videos and almost 800 million views. they used to make avengers minecraft videos and moved on to fnaf videos, they continue make lots of videos until 2023, their last video titled Minecraft FNAF Series Finale! (Minecraft Roleplay), also, they end up quitting youtube.

I feel like YouTube was what truly ruined Minecraft for me, I thought it was fun, then the rest of the internet agreed, especially with idiot YouTube channels. and don't get me wrong there have been good YouTubers that have done a few video on Minecraft (PBG gameplay) but then there are the fake comedians who have taken over the YouTube space and captured the internet in a trace. The reason YouTube channels like Jontron and the AVGN are so popular is because you don't go in to watch the game, you go in to watch the person reviewing the game, but Minecraft channels are just idiots who scream butter all the time and expect you to laugh.

4 The Game by Itself Is Boring

Whenever I play Minecraft, I go in expecting to have a sense of adventure and to find new things. But sadly nothing interesting happens I mean I build a house, which is boring, I hunt, which is boring, I mine, which boring, I even try and kill creatures, which is the most boring considering there pretty decent concepts for a game like this. There's no strategical feel to it I know it's about building but it just doesn't garner my attention long enough to really feel like doing it. Legos may be more expensive but they sure are worth more, I'd even buy those Lego Minecraft sets and have more fun because imagination is waay more fun than this games excuse for strategic building, cause there is none.

I just can't seem to express my imagination in this. The variety of building blocks are limited and the physics are noobish. Meanwhile, ROBLOX has a great social platform and building platform. Speaking of which, ROBLOX Studio uses Lua, instead of the user placing blocks and not be able to configure and optimize parts (Minecraft). ROBLOX allows you to code and program your own game. The game will be added to the platform, ROBLOX, kind of like Steam. Minecraft is such a waste of money. All versions (except for demos) cost money. ROBLOX, on the other hand, is free. You only need to pay for Robux, but Robux gives you many opportunities. Robux is the primary virtual currency on ROBLOX. ROBLOX has physics by default. They also let you program even more physics into the game, according to preference.

5 Multiplayer Is Horrible

Yes, Multiplayer is filled with hackers. I was on a vanilla prison server once, and I had full diamond gear and a diamond sword. I saw a guy with no armor, and I was like, "Lemme kill you." But he was a frikin' hacker, and he one-shotted me, and I lost the armor and a bunch of valuable stuff. So, I no longer play on servers a lot, and if I do, I go on anti-pvp areas. If you reported a hacker, the server admin reported to has 99.999 chance of actually doing something. Admins are about as bad as hackers. Once I was playing on a server with my friend and we were minding our own business when a admin came and kicked my friend out for FUN. I was shocked, and reported the admin to the server, but still, nothing happened.

Lesson from Minecraft Multiplayer: Admins and hackers suck.

I know the community cause I had probably 50 friends on Minecraft and probably 40 of them turned into selfish, rude, annoying brats with no life. Then 2 of the friends who turned into brats made YouTube channels ranting about me! Might be thinking that I was a terrible player no let me tell you how 40 of my friends to into brats...they destroyed my things and I got mad and then was rude cause I work hard and they think I was the blame also they grief me cause they think it's "funny" yea...Once I build a FNAF place that took about a month (maybe a bit less) then a good friend for such no reason decided to destroy it...

6 StampyLongHead Joseph Garrett, known on YouTube as stampylonghead, is an English YouTuber who posts videos about the Sandbox Video Game Minecraft as the character Stampy. His Youtube channel was created in August 3 2006 and is still making videos in 2021.

His voice, face, laugh, skin, and just him in general just pisses me off. I mean sure he is popular but WHY! Everything he does is sooo annoying and scripted. But his fanbase... UGH! If you ever see his skin on servers you know straight away that they are a 5-9 year old noob that will be asking you for diamonds or food. I think his popularity deserves to go to someone that actually deserves it, someone who can commentate, joke around, and play Minecraft in general properly!

Anyways some of you might like him but all I have 1 thing to say to those 5-9 year olds that hate me now... "You're a scrub"

This is sad. I was expecting someone like sky to show up here (who I like, but everyone hates for some reason), but STAMPY? Stampy is nice and caring, and doesn't mass-produce his videos for attention like some YouTubers. He actually cares about his fanbase, and his videos are of quality. I don't get why some people say they are scripted, when I really don't see how. Sure, the beginning of a video can be scripted, but when he plays something like Terraria, it's a bit hard to see, when so many things are going on at once...

Now I am noticing a trend here: many popular YouTubers are being bashed off nitpicks of them here, and it is sad... And I can accept constructive criticism. Not this. And just putting it out there: there are a lot worse YouTubers out there. (COUGH COUGH GLIGAR13VIDS COUGH COUGH). He isn't the absolute best, but he's far from the worst. I really enjoy his videos, and love what he does with his videos.

And now, the hate. Go on. Spam the dislike button as much as you want. That won't stop me at all. Go on, try me

7 The 1.9 Update

I hate this update, the feel of the game is not the same anymore. In the beginning, it strayed very little away from reality and was a charming game for being so simple. Now the simplicity is ruined because of 1.9, they could have just stopped large updates at a point but they didn't. Remember when it just started getting popular? When the music actually described the game's nature, calm and creative? I remember. I remember when this new game was so exiting to me, I could just sit down and watch people play it for the first time, listening to the music I never got tired of. The point is, the game never needed this expansion, it didn't need more difficulty. They could have just let the players explore using their own creativity to make a fun game even more fun.

I was almost exclusively into Minecraft PVP, I played with a group of guys (we were all sub-popular YouTubers, around 10k subs) and really attached ourselves to PVP. We were quite good, not as good as some of the best at the time obviously, but we were slowly working our way there. Sadly, once the 1.9 combat update was initiated, many servers updated as well. The update was bad mainly because it took a lot of skill out of PVP combat that had been there previously. Strafing, combos, jitter-clicks etc. were all made extinct. I quit shortly afterwards, so did all my other friends :| Rip Minecraft PVP.

8 Sky Does Minecraft

Stupid idiot who actually can't play games with out the help of his other stupid friends. He also is an aggravating character to listen to, his videos aren't memorable in the smallest bit and are all the same thing copy paste. But the worst part is that he takes away views from other, better YouTube channels. For example, the YouTube channel Screwattack has been around for ten years and is only getting around to to three million subscribers in recent years, Sky has more than 11 MILLION subs, so I guess not trying is how you get famous on YouTube

I actually went back to him when he stopped being pg for about a month and he wasn't as bad as DanTDM in terms of how bored his voice sounds but the problem is, he keeps spamming the same do not laugh videos and they aren't funny, every now and again there was an actual funny joke but most of it wasn't really something for you to laugh your head off at and yet he laughed at every one. I know there could've been one's he didn't laugh at and were just edited out for pacing reasons but it's so repetitive. Now he's gone back to pg because he felt bad for swearing around young children and he wants the people who came for swearing in Minecraft to go to his gaming channel which is literally nothing but Grand Theft Auto mini games and too many plays of games that have recently become popular. I don't think he would be so bad if he didn't spam the same thing all the time.

9 Difficult Modding

Let's see, Garry's mod (steam version) vs minecraft.

Gmod fanbase: normal adults that like to play it in their free time. Minecraft fanbase: little kids that are so annoying you wouldn't feel bad for them if they were AUTISTIC.

Gmod graphics: very great, feels almost like real life. Minecraft graphics: pixels, blocks, need I say more?

Gmod mods: very easy to download, if you have steam, you can install and uninstall them with a push of a button. Minecraft mods: super hard to download, there are so many viruses that it could almost make you sick.

And the winner is: gmod!

Modding is the worst for this. The problem is the fact that the game is not designed to be modded due to the lack of an modding API.

I have absolutely no idea why there is suck a vast amount of mods.

I guess you could make your own modpack, via modpack services, but that would result in downloading a massive client.

It's far too complicated to do modding on your own, since it would require hacking to get an API in!

First you have to put an API in some sort of 'bin' file, and then delete some 'META INF' file? Then put all the files in. That's how I remember it from last time I tried to mod 1.7.

I guess MC Forge, the most popular modding API, has an installer, but some mods need a different API to run off. Anyway, 3rd party API's would not be good as a Mojang-made one. If they did simply add that in modding would've been as simple as KSP (easiest game to mod in the world pretty much).

But there will not be! All because Micro$oft want's to make a crappy tablet version of the game on Windows 10, which we will forcefully have to play instead when they take away the normal MC download from the Website.

It's been nice knowing you, Forge.

10 Stupid Graphics

Ok people, I play Minecraft and I think it has horrible graphics. If Minecraft was wayy older, then it's horrible graphics are Ok. But it was released in 2009, when 3D and smooth graphics were around. But good games like Terraria and Undertale have bad graphics, but other games with bad graphics probably have good gameplay, content, soundtrack, etc.. But Minecraft has none of that. Obviously, Minecraft has horrible graphics and has nothing to make it up.

Just use a texture pack with shaders and optfine. The problem with Minecraft's graphics isn't that they are low res. No, the problem is that they plain suck and that Mojang has terrible pixel art skills. There are some good packs that you can find even under the 16x resolution. Wayukian and Pixel Perfection being good examples of good 16x texture packs.

If graphics don't make a good game, then why the hell would other companies spend so much on their graphics? Anyway even with its low quality graphics, Minecraft is still literally infamous for its lag. Also the graphics spoils my eyes due to low light.

The Contenders
11 Glitchy

top 5 reasons why I hate about Nintendo version of Minecraft
1. if I craft a chest then I will end up on adventure mode
2. wolfs wanted to attack me for no reason if I didn't hit them
3. there's free Wi-Fi on this version of Minecraft, so I have to pretend I don't know how to sprint
4. there's way too much multiplayer so I have to pretend I'm poor
5. if I join a server with a different username then others will torture me with, lava-bedrock trap, falling from higher height, bedrock small trap or normal trap, and bedrock trap with lava spill.

I messed around in the snapshot of 1.9 with my friend and we made a lag bomb. After that a lot of textures and models went trippy. Now when I play with it in multiplayer and singleplayer everything freaks out.

SO glitchy. Terraria has no glitches, and is a better game anyways.

12 YouTubers and Kids

Thank you! Thank you! Kids who play Minecraft don't know the greatness of playing other games. They are on Minecraft days at a time, me I can't bring myself to play Minecraft again after notch left. Kids like these are under a horrible spell of addiction and they need to be helped the first thing you should do if you are a sibling of one these children is

1. Delete Minecraft
2. Burn anything that has said password for account
3. Smack them when they throw a fit about you deleted there favorite game and tell them I will teach you.
4 introduce them to a good rpg like fallout
Oblivion
Or dragon age.

Danielbuildz: No, no, no. This is the reason why Minecraft sucks.
YouTube in a nutshell: 1. Search up something you like 2. Scroll down 3. Find tons of Minecraft videos.

Kids think this is the best game because they haven't played other games (example: SMK). Kids ruined this game:
Make cringey YouTube videos of Minecraft.
Call you a hacker all the time on servers.
Talk about it.
They post it everywhere.

Let's face it... Minecraft was great before nerds and autistic kids found out about it.

13 New Alex Skin

Horrible, Some kids that don't know how to change their skin are boys and like their Steve skin. Until 1.8 Update had been made, a lot of boys quit the game because their skin was a GIRL!

Dude. Whoever put this on here has something wrong with them because
A. This is saying girls are bad
And B. The Alex skin looks nice (and I'm a BOY! ), reminds me of a Christmas elf.

... Why is this in the list? Whoever created this reason must've been against women.

14 It's Everywhere

It doesn't matter where you are, underground, hidden in bed, trying to listen to cool music etc. You will always hear "Minecraft! "

I love this thread minecraft does suck and it's community is terrible.

It's too overwhelming, I have to add "irl" to search anything with Minecraft references.

15 It's Overrated

It's great for little kids, but there is no challenge to the gameplay, and actually building anything takes willpower far beyond most people anyway (especially kids). The most common thing I hear about it is "your only limit is your imagination in Minecraft". Truth is, the limit is your patience, as building anything impressive (like a small office building) takes over 4 hours to create, and larger projects can take months or years. And at the end of your time, you only have placed down a small bit of your project, and almost anyone, especially kids, give up.

It is literally the most overrated game in existence. Sure, it might be fun, but it gets bland and quite unamusing. Then there are the 4-year olds wearing "I HEART MINECRAFT" t-shirts to everywhere and screaming at 140 decibels when you tell them they're wrong. Seriously, I have no idea what is it to this game that makes it so undeservingly popular. The YouTubers are likely behind this(see StampyLongHead and SkyDoesMinecraft), because everyone seems to love them. This game is too overrated. In my opinion, Microsoft should take it down. Oh, and word of advice for those 4-year olds reading this. Play a decent game like Cuphead, ROBLOX, or Smash Bros. One more thing : $27? FOR A VIDEO GAME? (rage for 2 hours) Too expensive. Mojang is greedy. Don't even bother whipping out your cash for this junk.

16 SkyDoesMinecraft's Fanbase

Excessive profanity and he hates squids for no reason. Squids are passive mobs. They aren't creepy and don't kill you. He needs to know that diamonds are more valuable than gold.

What's the big deal with Skydoesminecraft? I heard that he swears which is why I'm not watching his videos and he's overrated. I don't get why people like him so much.

Basically all I ever watch is a person playing Minecraft like any other player.

17 Graphics Suck

I'm kinda surprised that this is not higher on the list, because really, the graphics look like they are from last century. Oh wait, they are. In my opinion even half-life 1 has better graphics, although it was released more than a decade before Minecraft. If the pixelation is the game's style, or if that is supposed to add to the atmosphere of the game, they failed at it. I mean really, there are a lot of games which are pixelated because of the style of the game, like Risk of rain, Magicite, even Terraria for god's sake, and trust me, I could continue this list on and on.

I honestly don't get why even after 7 years the graphics haven't even improved a bit. It would be acceptable if the graphics were a bit better than now but the gameplay, add-ons, and just the overall game were much much better. There are also other things that are probably better than just changing the cubes such as clouds not going through buildings, lighting, smooth textures (a.k.a. the pixels are slightly blended), good performance for the bad graphics, and a more atmospheric feel. All of those things are still not yet good. I would have hoped for more bird chirping and maybe fog in the morning, or something more atmospheric such as waking up in a bed lying down.

18 Boring Once You Keep Playing It for Over 6 Years

I was playing Minecraft since I was grade 3. Now I'm 15 and 9th grader student, it was becoming really boring for me.

So what, you expect 1 game to keep you interested for a decade? That's just stupid.

Literally, no game would still be entertaining after 6 years. It's not just minecraft

19 Combat

There was really no point in putting combat in this game, I mean really... Really. Creepers may blow up your house but, eh, I would say it's always an improvement because everything you build is pretty much an eye sore. They should have just focused on the building mechanics more than including combat in the game cause seriously it's the most boring part about it.

The combat is boring. All fights are the same. Take a sword to fight in melee, take a bow to figth in ranged combat. Take an armor to reduce damage, put enchantements to icrease stuff efficiency, and potions to annoy/massively heal. After playing a game like Skyrim, you will understand why a real animation when using a weapon is important. In minecraft, you can hit as much time as you click per seconds. And some people like that. ugh...

Minecraft's combat is good because you don't have to be good at the game to play it. You can play like a pvp god and equip enchanted diamond armor, or you could just fist mobs in leather armor. I'd rather play a game with simple combat than a game with complex combat. 99% of the time in a game with complex combat you can't win because no life tryhard hypebeasts will just beat you

20 Hackers

From my experience, some hackers are so bad at a certain mini game or using their hacks, I usually win against them easily. A few instances that this happened to me recently is:

- In a Bed Wars 40v40 match I was in, a b-hopper with fly hacks couldn't even break any of our team's beds as we defended them with blocks that can only be broken through a pickaxe and that hacker doesn't even know how to buy a pickaxe. Oh yeah, we won that match.

- In a Solo Skywars match, I was able to kill a hacker with kill aura and some other hacks as he couldn't use them effectively nor he had any equipment. I won that round.

This is 25% percent why Minecraft sucks now. This is also 75% of the reason why you shouldn't play servers.

Hackers are EVERYWHERE. They hack people, hack servers and create bots and viruses. These asses never have any heart and are extremely cynical.

And the lazy ass Notch never does anything about them. He never puts an anti-hack system or whatever that watchamacallit to stop hackers.

Never trust ANYONE. I remember the good'ol days where hackers were 80% reduced. It would not be infectious as it would today. We had no worries back then!

And then, the updates came. Oh.

21 Isn't Competitive

Currently, Kirby is ranked 26th in the G tier at the very bottom, a huge drop from his 2nd position in Smash 64 and his worst placement in the series. While he has several throw options into Kirbycide and a decent edge guarding game, Kirby's approach and KO ability are among the worst in the game; slow attacks, a low air speed, an ineffective projectile in Final Cutter, and numerous other flaws both on the ground and in the air prevent Kirby from easily approaching enemies, and he struggles against almost all characters as a result of this. Kirby currently has terrible overall match ups, with seven match ups that are near unwinnable, and only two positive match ups (against Bowser and Roy), and even these can be disputed at length.

This is a sandbox - what'd you expect?
Personally I also prefer non-competitive games because those determined people are annoying, and I hate e-sports.

22 Kind Squeakers

Their mind:
Undertale is a ripoff of Minecraft cause sans is a skeleton. Minecraft is better
Nigahiga sucks because he plays other games more than Minecraft. Skydoesminecraft is better.
The president sucks because he doesn't talk about Minecraft. Popularmmos is better.
Tf2 sucks because you have a fat heavy. Minecraft is better.
LoL sucks because the characters look so evil. Minecraft is better.

There is no such thing as a kind squeaker. It's like saying that red-hot fire is cold.

Look up super Minecraft kid.

I personally like the game a little, but the fanbase of 6 year olds makes me wish I never learned about the game.

This is the reason I hate Minecraft I also hate the YouTube videos of it seriously! This game sucks it's just annoying

23 Limitations

Definitely! There really are a lot of limitations. If you want to make something like, I don't know, a castle, no matter how much effort and time you put into it, chances are when you're done with it it'll look like trash.
One of the biggest limitations is the fact that everything's blocks.I know that it's one of the things that make it "unique" or whatever, but it just makes making any other shape a huge pain. If you want circular wheels to add to a car, you'll have to make a HUGE car to make it look normal; it's stupid.
Building isn't the only thing effected by the limitations, but it's by far the most suppressed.

24 TheBajanCanadian Fanboys

Fanboys are really issues. But this doesn't deserve to be a separate subject. This fits into the "fanbase" category. But I'll share my opinion anyway. People think that just because they are OK at the game and play against 9 year olds that they are good. This is an issue with CaptainSparklez, PrestonPlayz, PeteZahHut, SkyDoesMinecraft, and many more. They ALL suck. Especially CaptainSparklez. Of course there are plenty of good youtubers. Like Huahwi, StimpyPvP, Danteh, BlueDeww, TewChaynz, ComboDombo, DrummerReviewZ, etc. These people are the extremely skilled (especially Stimpy) and there are many more that are still good. Like PainfulPvP. Minecraft has very good stuff to it. Its just servers are straying away from the good game-modes. They're not making fun stuff anymore. Just rage filled, luck games (which is what 9 year olds do). Even Factions is becoming bad. Now they're making it so that tryhards that play 12 hours a day pretty much own it. We need more long term team based games. Not games that BajanCanadian and SkyDoesMinecraft and CaptainSparklez play.

25 The Diamond Minecart

My 6 year old stepsister doesn't have a computer, iPad, or anything like that. We do have an Xbox, though, and this Xbox has Youtube on it. Every day I hear this guy through a T.V., even when I am upstairs in my room. She doesn't even have the courtesy to wear the $300 headset we bought for the Xbox. I have grown to hat this guy.

He is the most boring channel I've ever seen. All he does is play super popular games like Happy Wheels, Minecraft, and that dumb game where you kill a baby. He only deserves 1 million subs not 10 million. His voice is annoying as hell and his commentary is unfunny and cringeworthy. Even worse than Stampy.

He does the sh! ttiest gameplay. Roleplay, Mind you, features a magical pizza that turns a bear yellow. And he can kick a monster to teleport out of a spooky mansion. Mod reviews, basically showing DLC that no one likes, and his annoying voice and intro. These 3 things piss me off.

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