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Except it is a video game and not a very good one.

Don't fight guys! I started to like the Minecraft not long time ago. An old good friend talked about it for me and showed sometimes screenshots. I don't really play with it in single, not either in survival mode, i play with the game in multiplayer with that friend in creative mode. I prefer the creative mode, my friend prefer the survival mode. But we play the multiplayer with each other in creative mode.

It might be slightly difficult if you're new but other than that, any difficulty in the game is completely artificial due to its limited, pseudo-RPG mechanics.

Minecraft isn't really meant to be difficult, even in the hard modes. It's meant to be a creative sandbox.
I mean, yeah, there is an added level of mild difficulty when they creators chose to include mobs that would kill you. Even in hardcore mode, the mobs aren't that difficult to kill. Probably the only ones that are really all that difficult are Ghasts and the Enderdragon, and that's only because they can hit you from a way greater range than anything you can hit them with.
Otherwise, s**t, my daughter fought off about a dozen zombies with a stick, a feather, and a leather hat on when she was eight years old. It's really not a difficult game, and the difficulty doesn't really even scale up just because you don't respawn on hardcore mode.
The threat of only getting to live once isn't much of a threat if you don't die. You can outrun, outthink, and outmaneuver every enemy in the game with ease.
But, as I said, the game isn't about difficulty. It's about fun. It's about creating things. That's why the game comes with a build in peaceful mode or creative mode. That's why the music is always soft piano music.
It's a relaxing game of digital legos where the whole world is your toybox and the only limits you have are your imagination and the game's rather simplistic design and physics.
The ONLY real difficulty in vanilla Minecraft is if you decide you're going to build a huge mansion out of solid gold and diamonds in survival mode without cheating. And even then it isn't difficult to do so much as time consuming and repetitive.

All in all, I do think Minecraft is a great game. It's probably one of the more important video games of the past decade. And I hope to get to play it with friends and family for a long, Long time...
But to argue with people about its difficulty as being one of its strong points is like arguing that poptarts are really difficult to make: they put instructions on the box in case someone really doesn't get it, but Most People can grasp the concept almost immediately. And not everyone is going to like poptarts as much as you are. Especially not if you keep fighting with them about it.

There are plenty of mods that turn it into a full on rpg, but they make it kind of lame...