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Pros
Pro Amazing extended community
The community surrounding this game is huge due to its popularity. There are lots of servers and projects revolving around it that allow for so many different choices in how one wants to play and who they want to play with. From crafting guides/videos, themed servers and YouTube play sessions, there is enough out there to help one find what they are looking for.
Pro Enthralling, unpredictable gameplay
Exploring and fighting expands on what is a randomly generated world, never knowing what's going to happen next or what the player will find. There are no set goals and no end to reach: it is all a sandbox experience that the player formulates as they go along, making it all the more thrilling.
Cons
Con No sense of community or long-term goals
Minecraft is good entertainment for a while, but the worlds are always empty and lack long-term goals other than what you decide for yourself. Once you have build your castle and dabbled with the world enough, you're done. Minecraft could really use HUGE, persistent worlds and events that would challenge everybody in them. Like world bosses, meteor rain, invasion, PvP, etc. Anything to force the players to work together or against each other.