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Minecraft to me, is a simple way of enjoying my free time. Unwinding, relieving stress, or just looking forward to pure enjoyment, Minecraft covers it all.

I see minecraft as many things. I see it as an insanely large sandbox, with near no limits. I see it as a game engine, used by many(including myself) to sculpt worlds for others to discover. I see it as a survival challenge, with near endless possibilities to live life to it's fullest. Finally, the last way I see it, is a way to just have a little fun, maybe burn some spare time.

As for your second question, it would depend on the opinion of who you are interviewing. I would personally like seeing some interviews, but only if those who are interviewed are ok with it.

It allows temporary escape from this world, a way for you to become a king, or a god. The world exists, changes, and falls as you see fit. All rules and boundaries created by this world can be completely ignored... and create a new one on entirely your terms.

I have to limit myself from playing it all the time. Its gotten pretty bad.

Minecraft to me is a get away.

When I come back from a hard day at school, after all my homework is done, I only have time to play for 30 minutes. But every minute is worth it when you are like me. I'm a sleep deprived teenager who has to wake up at 5:30 every morning to take an hour and a half bus ride to my school. I then go through the day, taking another hour and a half bus ride home, getting back around 5:10. I then do homework till 8:30-9 at night, and I have to go to sleep at 9:30 (strict parents).

When I hop on Minecraft, I feel like I've just escaped a breathing nightmare. That may sound "stupid" and many of you will probably say "hah, you have no life". But you can't comprehend what a life truly is then. "To have no life", means that one is dead, not breathing. His/her heart has stopped beating, and their brain no longer functions. So your silly childish remarks don't bother me.

I use Minecraft as not only an escape from school, but as my number one go-to game. Its amazing, while single player can get quite boring, I still enjoy it. I can do whatever I please, without having to worry about annoying objectives placed by a game's creator. Ich liebe diese Art von Freiheit. In other words; I love that type of freedom.

Minecraft is love, Minecraft is life.

What is Minecraft to me... hmm... to explain fully, it would take a entire month non-stop to do so, and so I'll give a very basic version:

I first experienced it when my older brother showed the mobile version, sometime in 2012, and I really enjoyed the cubic world, that I could create anything in, with very little limitations. Then, I discovered the world of Youtubers that posted Minecraft videos. And that is when I started to get really interested in the PC version. In 2013 I got my account. After that, it was one thing after another, from Adventure Maps, to creating maps, to survival, to redstone, and then to mods. There is really no limit to Minecraft! And so, to put it short, What I like most about Minecraft, is the diversity of it. It has freedom that no other game has!

As for meeting famous Minecraft YT's like rsmalec, or Jigarbov, or Dragnoz, or DanTDM, or SethBling, ect?
I would absolutely love to, but am unlikely to. It would be awesome to tho. :/

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Minecraft to me is a get away.

When I come back from a hard day at school, after all my homework is done, I only have time to play for 30 minutes. But every minute is worth it when you are like me. I'm a sleep deprived teenager who has to wake up at 5:30 every morning to take an hour and a half bus ride to my school. I then go through the day, taking another hour and a half bus ride home, getting back around 5:10. I then do homework till 8:30-9 at night, and I have to go to sleep at 9:30 (strict parents).

When I hop on Minecraft, I feel like I've just escaped a breathing nightmare. That may sound "stupid" and many of you will probably say "hah, you have no life". But you can't comprehend what a life truly is then. "To have no life", means that one is dead, not breathing. His/her heart has stopped beating, and their brain no longer functions. So your silly childish remarks don't bother me.

I use Minecraft as not only an escape from school, but as my number one go-to game. Its amazing, while single player can get quite boring, I still enjoy it. I can do whatever I please, without having to worry about annoying objectives placed by a game's creator. Ich liebe diese Art von Freiheit. In other words; I love that type of freedom.

Yep, totally me too, concerning it being a escape from life occasionally.

Minecraft is a place to be creative. To socialize, to be reminded how annoying humans are (I hate griefers) and sometimes how wonderful humans can be (my friends). It's a place to survive. A place where I can destroy as much stuff as I need to, to calm down. (I have special TNT maps on my singleplayer for this purpose.) A place where I create the world to my liking, where I am important rather than nothing.

Above all, minecraft is somewhere to have fun doing whatever I want.

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It allows temporary escape from this world, a way for you to become a king, or a god. The world exists, changes, and falls as you see fit. All rules and boundaries created by this world can be completely ignored... and create a new one on entirely your terms.

I have to limit myself from playing it all the time. Its gotten pretty bad.

Aaand you put it a lot better than I did. xD

"What is Minecraft to you?"

Minecraft appeals to me as a creative outlet. I prefer immersive gaming experiences, which MC offers by the truckload.

For me Minecraft kind of is a world to sink into.
I like to build up a city together with my friends or to live in a lonely farm out there. Being your own master.
It is fun to evolve the character of my player, imagine a story and a life, build yourself up from a nomad to a wealthy builder of cities.
You can build whatever you want and find many resources and treasures, which even further makes the game cool!

What is Minecraft to me?
By its self, it is an amazing game with thousands of possibilities, but that isn't minecraft. Minecraft is the fans, the youtubers, the community, and the modders. Every year we have Minecon, and thousands of random people from everywhere come together and play one game. Isn't that amazing? You have youtube stars interacting with hundreds of fans on the right, while coders discuss ideas with forum members on the left. Then companies are interacting with fans and showcasing new tech (For $$$, but still people instead of a faceless corporation) in a different area. That's what minecraft is.

Interviews?
Sure!

To me Minecraft is something you have to do. Not in the forced kind of way. You can't ready relax after a long day of school without playing Minecraft has soon as you get home. Sometimes I spend my lunch time day dreaming about finishing that huge tower that sits across that river or finish that room in my mansion. I need to play it to relax you know.

As for the interview thing. Go for it! I'd love to hear from my favorite youtubers!

I'd like to see interviews with modders, youtubers, etc.

To me, Minecraft is a means to build and flesh out different ideas for buildings I have in my head, and I find that making these structures look neat despite having nothing but cubes to work with to be a very enjoyable challenge.

However, I consider our commonly played game to be more than that. It's also an adventure. It's something you can be part of. You can go to the forums and suggest things for the game's development, and if good ol' Mojang likes your idea, they might just add it. Also, it's an adventure in a more literal sense to me. There's always something to do, some new thing to try out, something to explore.

From obsurdly detailed and beautiful adventure maps crawling with mobs intent on my demise, like most Hypixel or Vechs maps, to mysteriously beautiful dimensions in well thought up mods such as The Twilight Forest, or hey, let's not forget the Aether mod, there's just adventure to be had everywhere, if you just know where to look.

That is probably the main reason, actually, that I still play this game, even after years of gameplay. Heck, I even played the creative-like free version before the original game even came out, but here I am, posting happily on the forums about what is still, to this day, my favorite game.

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Oh, and yes, the Youtuber interview idea is something I have actually wanted to do myself, but, as I am not technically well known on the Youtubez, I don't exactly have the resources needed to do so, AND, Sach I absolutely Love the idea of you as an interviewer dude. Heck yeah, man, go do it!

Oh, And Sach, if you interview Sky, you may not upload the episode unless you can keep him from saying Budder, or maybe just bleep it out. I believe that would make for some deliciously fun trolling. MWAHAHAHAAA! Ehem! *Violent coughing* Er, sorry about that.

Minecraft was for me the ultimate game of emergent game play. The programmer comes up with 10 game mechanics and the players take them in 1000 different directions. That way I can feel like I'm not being herded in the same direction as everyone else.

Sadly, Mojang has stated they don't like this style of gameplay.

I'm not much of an explorer, but Minecraft is still an excellent game for me. I like to choose a good location and make it into a home, and the power of modding means I can do all kinds of interesting new things to make my home better.

Rewriting the game in C wouldn't add any flexibility, in fact would reduce the modability to whatever API Mojang included and reduce the universality of the code (which currently runs on many popular OSes without translation), but it would make the game run much faster even without further upgrades. In fact, I'd say rewrite the renderer in C, thread it nicely against the client, and just let us have the Java world engine! I don't need new shaders, I need a game that doesn't lag out my computer when I have a little redstone running or eat memory just because I jumped between dimensions a couple of times.

I'd love to see some interviews, but I'm not into everyone who's popular. Maybe someone lesser-known who's good at what they do could be featured? Of course, when it comes to content, some things are popular exactly because they're good.

To me, Minecraft is a way to simulate architecture and build whatever you can imagine! There are barely any limits to what you can do in the game, and that is one of the many reasons why it is so popular. Skill is not a necessity in Minecraft, because the more you build, the better you become, a.k.a, "Practice makes Perfect." I have seen things in Minecraft that I would have never imagined seeing in my whole life, such as a: 1:1500 Earth Model or a ! The only thing I have left to say is this: Because of Minecraft I barely live my normal life anymore, and really, to actually come down to it, Minecraft is my life now....

I like the way that "I" get to set the pace or style of game that I want. I hate games that make you do the same thing time after time in exactly the same way "Every time" you hit Game Over.
Minecraft is what ever I want it to be.

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I'd love to see some interviews, but I'm not into everyone who's popular. Maybe someone lesser-known who's good at what they do could be featured? Of course, when it comes to content, some things are popular exactly because they're good.

Same here! Maybe some names that could be mentioned are YazurX, and his whole building team on AlphaCraft! (That isn't even a portion of what they've done...)