Why do 100,000 people still play this Minecraft version?

Why to 100,000 people still play this Minecraft version? I play a 12 year old version of minecraft that over 100,000 people have claimed to be the best minecraft version ever. Is this true?

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This is not when a fortnite player plays minecraft, if minecraft was controlled by parents, if minecraft gave you life advice, best moments in minecraft history, I rebuilt every biome in hardcore minecraft, how we survived the end of the world or any video like that. This is why do 100,000 people still play this Minecraft version.

[ChuckNasty]

Do you think this is the best minecraft version?

[Illumiinarian]

They kept spawning by your bed because back then there was something like a 30% chance you would have a nightmare and a mob would wake you up and start attacking you. This was later removed. In short, you got very unlucky

[ochreyefroglight]

i feel like if minecraft released all the features from 1.1 to 1.20 at once, it would be enough to be a minecraft 2.0

[fsunice]

“I decided to set my own objectives” that’s the reason it’s the best version and what made Minecraft feel so special back then.

[KurozawaOfficialYT]

The happiness and excitement he felt when he finally found diamonds was probly the same feeling that us players felt when we first play minecraft

[Bobylein]

For someone who didn't play minecraft for years and started again recently, I've to say that the nights in this video are much closer to what I remember, modern Minecraft seems really tame at night.

[jonaw.]

As is often said: Limitations breed creativity.

[Orangethesussyboi]

5:49 we not gonna talk about the skeletons head here?

[AzamatSlowedAndReverb]

Its one of the best, exploring was slow and made the world feel bigger, it was scarier and darker at night, the lighting was superior. It felt much more dangerous and immersive. And there was a perfect balance of realism and fantasy. The creeper was an accident but now everything is purposeful with little to no anomalies that werent purposeful.

[barple]

People call this the best version because those same people started on this version and for them, THIS was Minecraft. No objective to it, just Survive, Build, Mine and Craft. The Adventure update had completely changed how the game played and a lot of people genuinely didn't enjoy the change very much. It's almost a totally different game compared to today. It was a lot simpler and people liked it for that.

[AlphabetSoupABC]

I feel like I aged 20 years watching this video. I probably played more beta 1.7 and 1.8 than all the other versions of Minecraft combined. "There's nothing to do" was the whole point of Minecraft back then. There was no destination, only infinite possible paths that go on forever. There was less instant gratification, the night was an actual threat, and there was no trading with villagers for the things you need.

Is it better than modern Minecraft? Probably not, but it's the version I loved to play most.

[seraphinascholz]

The encounter with the Ghasts was pretty funny. The fact is that the fire-snowballs did not hit you because they were aiming at the camera, not at you. This becomes evident when you switch to third-person mode and notice that they shoot in the direction of your line of sight.

[setoman]

1:08 Yes, that’s exactly why we love it. It’s vanilla Minecraft. It’s Minecraft while it was still Minecraft, and not MC RPG. The next version of MC took a complete 180 (pun intended) from everything that 1.7.3 established. It was a completely different game from there onwards.

[WeepingAngelihbbh]

Finding diamonds in the old versions feels so good.

[bluehunter]

The reason mobs spawn on you when you sleep is because old minecraft has a feature called "nightmares"
It's basically preventing it from turning day and spawns a monster on you. Pretty cool touch

[Maliniasredmask]

what your not getting is the total nostalgia and impact these versions had on people... some people wanting to go back or some people wanting to try out what they missed out on...

[brasquez]

your use of sound effects is literally amazing bro i love it so much made my day

[TridentTrist]

I remember back when boats were dark squares that broke the second you hit something, i remember the unsmooth lighting, i remember creepers exploding after death, i remember punching sheep gave you wool, i remember the old fish texture it was the only fish, and i remember there being 2 flowers rose and dandelion

[Shafd]

I've been playing this version for a long time now, and it is a bit of a big change. It's easy to get used to though

[Cp-]

This version feels so familiar yet so different... I spent a lot of time in Alpha 1.2.0 and this reminds me of it a lot. Tough as nails nights (Alpha didn't even have beds), blindingly dark caves, no real direction, infinite, confusing (there were no coordinates in F3 mode) and lonely world and a feeling that some entity, Herobrine or anything else, is always watching you...