Minecraft communities falling apart

The community isn't becoming worse. It's simply becoming bigger. It becomes harder and harder to find people you genuinely connect with ad want to play with. The community has always been on more or less the same level. When something comes bigger, the crap just tends to overshine the creme.
Most of the time because negative commenters tend to be louder then the positive ones. So a lot more negative comments about the community reach us, influencing the way we see it.

 

This has a lot to do with MLG people all in all. Usually, that's the case. That's how things like numbers in words and 'Skrubz' originated.

 

It's not necessarily becoming worse, but it's becoming something else for two reasons.

1. Bigger Community

2. Younger Players

The community is expanding every day, thus making it harder to find these smaller community servers, also their are a lot of younger players joining the game, which are not exactly mature thus, giving the impression of a degrading community.

 

Really, i disagree with some of you guys its not because of immature kids but i know for a fact that its more because of uneducated teenagers. Also maybe, yes the minecraft community is growing but its growing for the worse.

 

Yeah lately I've had problems getting decent players to go on my server. Whenever I make an advertisement for it, usually results in griefers and spammers joining. Much more so than I remember back in Alpha and Beta.

 

You've just described all gaming communities. If you play in larger servers, then you're more likely to run into such players. Stick to the smaller servers, and you won't have as many problems. It's as simple as that.

 

From what I notice, the game seems to be growing, not falling apart! Sure there are people leaving and all, but there's also tons of people joining as well. Minecraft is one of the biggest games out there right now!

 

The game is still growing but I understand what you mean about the lack of community nowadays I have been playing the game for years literally, I started playing just over a month after the game was released in the alpha version.

I feel like it seems the community is falling apart to you because it seems so spread out now you have 1000s of little communities playing now where as before there were around 100 or so big communities playing so it was easier to keep track of and still feel like a community of players you felt like you knew etc

 

Meh, I got used to flamers and toxic people from League of Legends so I try and not care about people who are negative and ruin the game for other people.

 

The minecraft community is not actually getting worst it was getting bigger. My friends actually don't know minecraft until it became available on consoles. And also there are new younger ones playing this game.

 

It will probably continue to grow, if anything. Mods make the game even more deep and the game's already deep to begin with. Then there's streams and communities and stuff.

 

I know a lot of people don't want a nice community anymore. As the game gets more and more people joining, there are going to be a lot of people who just want easy rewards and don't really care how it happens. They have no interest in actually playing the game, which IMO defeats the purpose of it but each to their own a guess.

 

Unfortunately, the community these days is pretty much the same no matter where you go. It expands, draws in younger people who in turn have no maturity level and who endlessly teabag you (yeah, on ANY game, you'll find THOSE people..)

But that doesn't mean worse. I've seen some 9 year old kids make a building so elaborate it puts grown adult work to shame, like virtual legos or k-nex without the cleanup or issue of stepping on random pieces. Now it's just digital, that's all. And because it's on the Xbox as well as PC and multiple different platforms, you have to factor those demographic markets in too. It just became a lot.. well, MORE, than it used to.

 

Yeah, but there are always the children that complain about how they're more mature than most people their age. I don't know how mature I am compared to people my age, because it doesn't matter. The problem is that a lot of servers now have age limits on the people that can join, and then they get a lot of complaints from 9 year olds that are clearly so mature that they care.

 

That doesn't really have to do a lot with minecraft, but rather, the players who join them. All you can do is either report to owners or just leave and find a better community.

 

Community hasn't changed at all. Everyone is either a nice guy or a dick. You are simply growing out of it if anything.

 

Exactly this. Every single game/TV show/movie series/book series which becomes big and popular will start to grow rotten apples. I think it's a natural process, and having trolls and griefers in your game means that you've made it big.

Don't worry, OP, it's only natural. Try to find out a good community server and make friends there. Or invite your friends to private servers.

 

This is true, and I agree. There used to be a lot of gaming communities into Minecraft and that's what created the stereotype "Minecraft kid," playing till 3 AM. Now that doesn't really exist and I kinda wish it did. :/ I'm not a kid, but I used to play Minecraft till 3 AM with my friends and I know what you're talking about.

 

I think this is common with most communities that gain popularity. I've witnessed a few communities grow and plateau and they all pretty much follow the same pattern. By now I'm so used to it that I don't even mind it anymore. If I don't find it fun anymore I'll move on or if I decide to stay then I'll have my fun regardless of how many trolls I come across.