" I think it's neither a survival game nor a game about creating things. It's exploration focused. There. "

I always felt that Minecraft was more of a creative game than a survival one, simply because of how the game was so simple and that people went out to make crazy shit out of the blocks.

" Minecraft is whatever you want it to be, don't dictate to people how they should and shouldn't play it.  "

" @drag said:

" Minecraft is whatever you want it to be, don't dictate to people how they should and shouldn't play it.  "

Where did I dictate anyone? Don't attempt to one-up someone without knowing what you're talking about. "

You build to survive, and you survive to build. Does it really have to be mutually exclusive?

"Really, though, can anyone truly understand Minecraft? Think about that... "

The developers may want it to be a survival game but that's not why anyone cares about Minecraft.

I think once this becomes more of a game, I'll be done with Minecraft. I just want to either build wicked shit, or make increasingly insane TNT bombs, my most recent being a 16x16x16 TNT cube that dug a mammoth sized hole in the landscape, and hollowed out a mountain. Anything that wants to get in the way of that is kinda lame. 

" @Take_Opal said:

" Minecraft was created out of the idea of Infinimner and Dwarf Fortress. The pay game has always been survival, the creative portion is a "taste" which is why it's free. "

It might have been created with that in mind. But right now its so early on it has very little in Survival.  "

I agree with you OP, I only build stuff that I really need and yet I still love Minecraft.
 
To me if just seems like GB don't understand that the game has a huge exploration element to it. And they also don't seem to understand how intense the gameplay can be. Anyone who has at least once got lost in a huge natural cave with holes everywhere and a bunch of moaning mobs behind each wall, can tell just how tense and scary Minecraft can be.
 
Really Minecraft has scared me more than all actual horror games I played in the last 5 years together.

It seems like a game I need to experience. I've got my mind on a way to craft my way into its realm.

" It seems like a game I need to experience."

I like this thread because I can mine the stuff, then use the pieces to make other stuff. I am kind of glad, however, that the staff (and especially the forumgoers) are not trying to kill me, at night spacifically. Or in the caves that I frequent IRL. Because I am totally into that too, you know. 
 
edit: The Descent was the shit.

I think most people play multiplayer where the monsters are harmless.

I enjoy playing Minecraft because of the survival aspect. Admittedly there's still a long way to go before the survival stuff is where I want it to be, but the way it is now is still very survival based. That is if you play Single Player on a harder difficulty. 
Minecraft has become so popular both because of the creativity element and the survival element. It's just that the creativity stuff is the stuff people see most that makes them go "wow". 
I'm just looking forward to the future of the survival mode. I already love how it feels to be building my own house on top of a mountain until I realise that I need more supplies and have to go deep into a cave to get them where suddenly I'm not so safe anymore. 
It can be pretty intense.

We should beg for a QL.