I’ve been playing minecraft on and off for over a decade but recently started again and rented a server, which some of my friends and family joined. It’s honestly the most fun I have had playing a video game in years. It’s such a cool feeling coming online and seeing that someone built something new and we basically have our own little town already. Sometimes we also meet up to explore some caves and look for diamonds or mines with loots.
We also built a community center with a shared chest, post boxes for everyone on the server to give them stuff when they are offline and an enchantment table for everyone to use.
And now I started playing around with plugins like ItemsAdder to add my own made stuff to the game, which gives it a whole new dimension of possibilties.
The key card thing is seriously infuriating, both from a consumer standpoint and from a media conservation standpoint.
Basically you own a game cartridge, but as soon as Nintendo shuts down their servers for whatever reason it becomes a useless piece of plastic. They really don’t want us to own anything anymore.