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Man the influential games just keep hitting lately... I have never had a game give so much value consistently over so much time of my life for so little cost as Minecraft has for me. I bought the game for $5 back when it was still in Indev back in 2011. The moment SMP servers became a thing we had one running for our friend group.
I remember when inventories weren't persisted so we dug a hole, dumped our inventories, logged out, and shut down the server. There was even a custom JAR file that would persist your inventories for you!
We've done vanilla SMP servers, modpacks, custom data packs, you name it! I've played Dwarves vs Zombies, Spleef, so many games born out of and unique to Minecraft itself over the last decade and a half.
I've played kitchen sink packs, challenge packs, questline packs, and even made my own hardcore pack. We even made a custom data pack that causes the entire server to be deleted the moment any of us died (and even streamed the adventures along with edited down a 10-part series recapping the multi-month-long journey we took to defeat the Enderdragon).
Minecraft is as high on my list of forever-games as the likes of Doom, Perfect Dark, and Warframe. I highly believe I would be a different person had I never given this game a try.
