Your hatred of Minecraft belies an inability to apply creative principles from subjects like Legos, creative writing, drawing, and a myriad of other projects that stimulate original thought to modern standards set by children who find their attention is a prize that everything in the world is screaming to obtain. Your…

If you're the type of person who sets a goal and then just does it, minecraft is great for that. I beautifully wasted many hours filling in a fully zoomed out map, building bases at strategic points, then (when I finally found a damned village) using an iron and cobblestone farm to build a skyrail that ran between all…

STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIIIIIKE!

For Christ's sake, you rollicking tards, there's a lot worse they could be doing. Like writing for this site.

Counterpoint: if you're OCD, like I am, Minecraft RULES. (RULZ? Let's just stick with RULES.) I have reached that advanced point in my life where a video game has to be VERY compelling for me to spend any time with it, and I've spent hours and hours of my life in Minecraft. I count building complete rail systems…

Enough of the right kinds of LEGO sets that includes logic gates and the ability to compute and move on its own would set you back hundreds of dollars.

I would say the stupidest phenomenon in years is negative internet commentary about harmless things that others enjoy.

As a kid, I couldn't really afford to have a lot of LEGOs. Kids only need one Minecraft and they have infinite LEGOs.

Don't get me wrong; I love LEGO. But in that fight, the match goes to Minecraft.

I always here people talk like this and remember when I was a kid watching cartoons about transforming cars and throwing lawn darts at my brother. Minecraft is no better or worse than any other way people choose to waste their time.

You certainly could, but Minecraft offers building, fighting monsters, farming, resource-management, and an infinitely-large world to build in, for $25. Good luck matching that experience with plastic blocks.

Yea, $26 dollars for minecraft as opposed to the constant bleeding gaping hole in your bank account to feed your child's lego addiction. Then the need to store all those legos, and then the incessant argument to clean up all those legos so you don't step on one of those motherfuckers. I love legos, but minecraft all…

legos are much more expensive. MUCH more. Would you be willing to pay that in order to get that? Because part of what makes minecraft neat is how much you can do. Do you know how much 65,000 legos will cost you?

One copy of Minecraft = $26.90, number of pieces to play with...unlimited.

Minecraft is cheaper BY FAR.
Long shot.

"Minecraft is basically this generation's Lego or even this generation's microcomputer." - Forbes Magazine

feeling sorry for your kids then, parents without imagination, must be hard

depends on how you use it. I work in software, and many of my friends are teaching their young kids to code in Java using minecraft. Making their own mods and such.

Well video games are not going away, as technology get's better and cheaper video games are going to be in more abundance and more widely accepted, do you recommend a more valid video game that is more significant to a child than Minecraft?

You would also be broke if not in debt in trying to buy the amount of physical…

I'd rather someone replace your flooring with Legos.

So one thing that Minecraft has over Lego is that it teaches kids digital logic and engineering in a way that Lego just can't do. Lego can teach a kid how to build a wall. Minecraft can teach a kid how to build a CPU. That's what the redstone book is about. It's almost tricking kids into learning math and engineering…

I'm sure we'd all be better off if our kids played GTA instead...