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« on: January 14, 2023, 08:45:50 AM »
i was about ~8 years old when i found out about blockland and it was 2 years later in 2013 when i bought myself a key and ended up joining the forums some months later. i think i found out about the game in some old youtube video or advertisement or something; i was very into lego-type games at the time, having been regularly playing roblox and minecraft and also screwing with a bit of lego stuff irl (anyone else have a mindstorms set? that stuff was cool). i know that many people pinpoint the death of the game on v21's removal of interiors and terrains, but as someone that started regularly playing the game after said update (i was aware of maps since i played the demo back when the game was on v19 or whatever), i found the community to be highly active for several years after with many cool servers to play around in and stuff to do in general.
in my personal opinion v21 is not what killed blockland, it's a combination of both this game having a relatively tight-knit community that aged out over time as well as the issues with this game's community that people in this thread have already elaborated on, specifically on these forums. being very young throughout my time here i was very naive and didnt really have a good sense of how to behave on internet communities, and many of my earlier posts were reflective of this. i can also remember a good amount of people here giving me stuff back then because of that (shoutout to me winning the "village idiot 2013" award in literally my first year of existing here). i remember being genuinely afraid of being the subject of drama threads and getting banned from servers and the like, and it was always a punch in the gut whenever people here would be less than nice to me. i do definitely subscribe to the point that this was an internet lego game intended for children and that the failure to moderate it as such was detrimental in the long run.
at the same time however, there were many positive experiences that i had with this game and many members of its community. not only did i enjoy the game itself, i met a lot of genuine people that were always willing to be helpful or just give me a good laugh. there are still a good amount of people here that i regularly interact with and i really do think the smaller size of the game's community was a benefit in this regard; you're not going to get these kinds of interactions on the roblox forums (rip) or whatever. so while i have had plenty of negative interactions with this game's community, i still look back fondly on the whole thing. i feel like this place was a learning experience for me that introduced me to both the light and dark aspects of the internet and it is experience that has helped me in many scenarios to this day.
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