I've been playing since 2012. My brother wanted me to play it with him, at first I was like "pft there is no way i'm going to play this game the graphics look so bad".. but here i am...
I owned minecraft on Xbox 360 since about 2012 but got in on pc in 2014. I still have some of my first screenshots in minecraft http://imgur.com/a/rPLkt (I can't believe i used to play on such low fps...)
Wow, difficult question, I have been playing minecraft for years and years now. I think I started during some of the testing versions but I have definitely played for at least 5-6 years.
Late 2012. When I was 9 my best friend showed me minecraft, and so, for my 10th birthday, October 2012, I bought minecraft.
I played MCPE a couple months before getting it on PC, but I don't really remember. Probably 5 years ago
This is when I actually bought the game. I started playing Minecraft Classic at around late 2009/2010. yeh the bois.
This is the date I bought my Minecraft account, but I started playing Classic mode back in 2010/2011 for those who still remember it. :D