Very interesting video. I think another part of why servers are losing players is that the resurgence of minecraft in 2019-2022 is wearing off. Even if the pandemic didn’t happen and the last few updates were done perfectly, the game can’t keep itself in the resurgence age forever.
Minecraft has been trending downhill because of a multitude of factors. The server scene has become blander, there's an oversaturation of content and SMPs, the Minecraft community not being as tightly knit, to people just growing up just like what happened before when the game went downhill in the past. I'm willing to bet there will most likely be more resurgences. This game is nowhere near dead, along with the servers.
Exactly, the people who were playing minecraft during its first peak all grew up and thats why it died for a little bit, then it came back but now those new kids are growing up and history will repeat itself.
@@noahparker50 idk about you i used to watch minecraft a lot from 2009 till 2014 then nothing until 2019 when i started watching content again and i’ve actually bought the game . I just play sometimes on hypixel skyblock but nothing more . Minecraft needs 2 things : 1 a combat that is the same as 1.8 and 2 free servers for everyone . Ther’s no way i’m paying to play with friends
@@theteamxxx3142 there are free servers that you can run locally with friends you just need a good computer and the server software with something like bukkit for plugins to optimize the server and for the combat I think the state it is in is decent with the snapshots so idk why they'd just ditch that and go with 1.8 combat
Being a Staff NetherGames, I have definitely noticed the player count has dropped A LOT, going from over 1k players throughout the to just less than 500 players during the evening time. Weekends we'd get over 2k especially on Saturdays. That no longer happens.
I love playing Bedwars on NetherGames! It really stinks how few players know about it and play on it, it’s seriously a pretty great server. The one issue I have is the amount of hackers on the server, although the number of them seems to be becoming fewer than before, which is good.
Honestly the fact you have to either paid or wait for ages just to get into MCCI and it still averages almost 1k players is a sign of hope for sure, when it's out for the public hopefully it'll be a hit and revive minecraft servers.
@@oworandom yeah technically, a bit different as 2b2t has a player cap due to it being just 1 world, not like MCCI which is a multi network server (lots of worlds)
The Microsoft account migration has also definitely made people stop trying to even play. I tried to play like 6 months ago and it wouldn't let me migrate so I gave up and decided to play other games. Some people lost the usernames they had for a decade or more, because of this probably partially ruining the game for them.
i wish i could go back 7 years ago, back to 2016, where Servers had competition Hive VS Hypixel VS Mineplex. Today, Minecraft multiplayer is basically: "open minecraft, click in multiplayer, play Hypixel for the 1000th time"
Just wanted to let you know that MCC Island is still in closed beta, so it's player counts are not really comparable to other servers. 700 for closed beta is really good imo.
i think another big issue that you didn't mention coming from the devs is the reporting system, that has been ruffling tons of feathers and as many people have mentioned being banned from multiplayer basically indefinitely when servers were already doing fine on their own and people could at least learn from those mistakes and join different servers before then. it just doesn't make sense.
its sad to see what happened to mineplex, genuinely my favorite server when i was younger and a lot of good memories, logged on a few months ago to play some games since i hadnt played it in years and the player count was so low i couldnt get into any games
As a player for the combat test snapshots and up there with the top players at one point I do agree on what you said and it is very irritating knowing that the snapshots aren't going to be released in a long time or potentially never. I also agree on what you said about mojang kind of slacking off and not delivering what they promised as the past few "major" updates has been a "major" disapointment. But great video! ❤
I can definitely relate playing Minecraft mainly for content purposes. I ONLY play for fun if I'm extremely bored and have nothing to do. But very informative video. I agree with a lot of points. I still enjoy Minecraft, but yes, I can admit it has been on a downfall lately
I have had like 5000 hour of play time in the last 3 years and i agree and i am not liying hypixel skyblock is a grindy game and now i can barely play it for an hour withot getting bored and the same happend with all my real life friends. Minecraft isnt fun anymore and hypixel focused all there resources on skyblock and people still complain about the lack of updates
Fr, a couple of servers i used to play back in like 2018-2019 used to have like 5k+ players (Prison serevrs, factions, a lot of gamemodes) i quit some of them in like 2021, came back in 2023 a few days ago to see my favorite server go from 5k players average daily 3 yrs ago to barely 100 players....
Very well made video, I basically agree to everything said in this video. I hope to see more resurgences in time but I think another ray of hope is if Mojang takes the time to fix the very apparent issues with the game, especially on the bedrock side of things. I bet if 1.19 didn't have the FPS / input delay issues, along with pink glitch, a lot of bedrock edition servers would still be down but not to the degree it is now. Plus, it would offer servers more functionality with the game itself to allow for more updates.
Good take. Mojang has been working around on fixing long-term MCBE bugs, recently being 1.19.50.21, with the Nether Glitch being patched out of the game. New bugs do happen from time to time, and if Mojang can work to resolve these bugs, then it’s a good time for Bedrock Edition.
This won't really change much imo. Most java servers (Hypixel in particular) run on 1.8. This is partially because of the worse combat system in 1.9+ but also because newer updates are terrible for server efficiency. Even if there was a combat update implemented its likely Hypixel and other servers still won't switch.
@@oliverjacobs8594 I think Hypixel would maybe switch or maybe depending what version you join the server on depends what combat you use (different lobby’s for different combats). Also they kinda dying rn so maybe that switch would be what they need for everyone to get interested again.
Not every server has been trending downwards. When Wynncraft 2.0 was released it brought the server to the highest player count in the server's history. As with every update the player count steadily dropped after some time but when the next update is announced, hype starts building up and players return once more. If people are willing to update their server, then players will continue to play on it.
I know it's been 10 months, but you don't have to worry. Most servers have plugins that disable it; it's basically like it never happened. Nobody ever gets reported.
Content had a big impact on minecraft, and the lack of content/repetition are causing the loss of players And the main problem is the pandemic, we had a lot of free time to play, we played a lot that we got tired of it and we just left, many of my friends became sweats and just quit after like 1000 hrs of playing
Servers are not dying. Well, mostly. You see, ever since school started up again most servers lost 50% of their players because of homework and school. I hardly even get to play anymore because of school and all the homework that comes with it and I can guarantee you that a lot of other people can say the same.
This is something I noticed with RUclips aswell. In 2021 near the end of the school year I was seeing a lot of creators come together and making similar RUclips shorts about minecraft. These incldue GEVids, PigPong, BeeseChurger, and more. That same RUclips Shorts Minecraft trend is long lost and it isn't the same. Most of those people either ran out of ideas and are recycling them and making bad videos, or they just fell off due to the lack of people wanting to watch these Shorts. PigPong has a video with like 150m views and you can't pull those numbers making his video nowadays. I hope Minecraft sees a come back soon for both RUclips and servers in general as it was very awesome to see the community thriving
Minecraft never truly dies. There's a new golden age like every 5 years. Some of the older players grow up, and because of new responsibilities, they can not play as much, new players join, and the game continues.
Not to make it sound like an advertisement(but it will sound like that lol), but i haven't heard anybody mention Origin Realms, sure the amount of people playing it is 350-800 at most but the sheer quality of content over there just suprises everyone, they pioneered gestures, smooth cutscenes, new animated mobs in vanilla and they're still improving!
I think a large part of Hypixel's decline has been Techno, who was basically the most popular, most funny and probably best Hypixel RUclipsr, maybe even player in general. The Dream SMP might also be included in Minecraft's general decline, since it was the most popular SMP on the server that is now essentially inactive
tbh it’s probably just because everyone is bored of skywars and bedwars and that’s part of the main player base on hypixel skyblock has taken over of course but you can only play that for so long too
I'd say the main reason that skywars barely pulls 1,000 is because of their bug ridden trainwreck of an update that made the games problems even worse while fixing issues that were never issues in the first place, along with removing 4 lab modes and ranked mode, making them go from 1,000 players in only solo mode to less than 1,000 total
The game definitely isn’t dying, people are just doing normal things again. Minecraft is returning to the numbers it used to have, definitely not dying though
Is it, i never see this game sick like that, bedrock kid save it but at what cost... Ass server, money take the lead, Copy/Paste content, at least 50% of the servers are dead, i never struggle that hard to just play4fun on Minecraft server. (Just download the game after few years is a challenge)
My fear for MCCi is that once they fully release, everything is reset, so the longtime players who feel "exclusive" won't anymore. Tubnet I have little to no hope for. It was a real race for who can be the next new big server it seemed, and Noxcrew definitely had more weight.
Hey, Just wanted to say “negelect” spelling is wrong when you were listing out individual server problems at the start. It’s “neglect” FYI. If you read this, could you give a heart 😅😅😅?
Probably the best video I seen on this situation I hate the people who just say it's because of 1 thing that's effecting a server but in reality it's a bunch of things effect mostly every server at the moment
My prediction is that this downwards trend of minecraft's popularity will be similar to the 2015-2018 dark ages and there will be a new revival down the line. It's funny how long this game has been around that the pattern of it's popularity is starting to show itself. The fact that it rose from the dead ONCE is already an impressive feat
to some extent, Hypixel has been going shady since they cut off the whole volunteer-based moderation team and go on only letting official workers to do them. they only got their huge success during the pandemic for the excellent service and features players want at the time. now, it seems they are slowly going on the path for profits while trying to protect staff from any backlash. it's much more frightening that there are people being whiteknights for Hypixel *as players themselves.*
Idk about anyone else, but after techno's death, I just lost all of my interest in minecraft content. His unique personality and content was the biggest factor that got me hooked into playing the game in the first place. So with him gone, I just feel sad and bored playing in minecraft servers,
Hypixel skywars got very unpopular due to an update that only allowed you to use 6 skywars perks at once instead of being able to use any you want. This may not sound bad on the surface because it allows new players to have a fighting chance, but in reality the game became less fun because you can’t use any perks that make the gamemode fun because they aren’t meta. There’s also progression based skill-tree in skywars that give perks as rewards but you can’t use them because you can only use 6 perks at once.
Two things: One: Hosting a private server is MUCH cheaper and MUCH easier these days, with many more options (and even free options) available to players, who may just want their own small servers with friends. Two: Modded SMPs are taking off in a huge way. Combine these two points = less players in public vanilla servers
Modded MC has always been my way to go, I like vanilla but to me the end game is just defeat ender dragon, defeat wither, done. Mods add much more to the play style and even to the creativity. I get underwhelmed with the vanilla options when creating a home or build but when theres mods then the brain juices get flowing for me.
I have stopped playing/watching minecraft, and all of a sudden i see this video. I think all your points are genuinely correct, but I feel like we need to remember that most servers don’t have the region of Oceania, I, personally being one of the people who live in the Oceania region, have stopped playing due to everything being delayed, I still won’t forget when the Oceania region came out to Hive for like a week? And it became fun because I wasn’t always just versing people who would get their hits earlier when I have the same cps as them. Tbh I feel like minecraft can come back, just not right now. (rlly nice video btw)
I have played Minecraft for 7 years now and recently quit it. It just got boring in 2020, and then I found the Hive. I had so much fun with it, then covid started. I was a Minecraft maniac. However after world reopened I started getting more social and started focusing on schoolwork. I still liked Minecraft and played it. Then it got boring again. I didn't enjoy the Hive or Minecraft in general. I just quit after that. Now I play rpg, gacha games like Genshin Impact. I just generally think Minecraft is dying and has to do something to keep it alive. Thank you for the video.
I think it's because the old update is becoming unpopular since the new updates have been better and better as the years go on. Like I don't even care if the "wild update" is underwhelming, the caves/cliffs update was so good that they don't even need anything else for a while. Yes, truth be told, spam clicking becomes boring eventually. Maybe the rest of the toxic PVP community should get with the times.
The server migration killed the game for a lot of people I know. I’ve had to migrate 2 times now and a lot of people I know ran into issues, lost their accounts, etc. just wasn’t worth the hassle so they moved on to other games
It is interesting how Minecraft had a huge comeback while Minecraft servers besides Hypixel and a few other big names did not. I hope to see more experimentation with servers staying updated to the latest version of MC and leaving 1.8 in the past
I play less nowadays, just had stuff happening when things opening up, also experience burnout after project and project and trying to top them all with the biggest yet, and that timing of burnout, the world opening up and finally able to touch grass led to just playing less after a month break from the game
You gotta remember minecraft servers started with a just a big group of friends, wanting to play multiplayer minecraft. just look how much it has evolved from just friends playing minecraft together.
Btw, the compliance resource pack is called faithful now. Mainly because it’s considered the actual continuation of the project rather than kraineff’s faithful.
I think when summer ends a lot of people will come pack. Not all but a lot. When kids can't play outside anymore because of the weather they will come back to their online games. Summer is just deadly for games...
I think one of the problems too is the lack of minigames in the servers, I used to play a lot of those back in 2013, you could find games like, hunger games, destroy the nexus, humans vs zombies, protect the village, capture the flag, LoL type of games too, pinturillo, I remember playing a team fortress 2 game mode in a server, some CoD type of games as well etc. nowadays all I can find is factions, survival and creative (these are just the base game), bedwars, pixelmon (literally a mod anyone can download), skywars, and not much more, they are always the same and now the servers are full of advertisements and paid cosmetics, there's not that sense of community there used to be back in 2013 where there used to be a lot of lobbies for different game modes and everyone talked to each other and added each other on social media to continue playing together, nowadays that got lost somewhere.
i’m on the side of people who just got bored of minecraft after life opened again i used to love playing the game and there was a time where i wanted to play skyways on cubecraft (my favorite server) everyday and now i don’t even feel like playing minecraft
I used to play alot on servers when I was younger. I just stopped playing minigames and just played the game. I've never gone back. I think many players are doing this. Single player has been getting more attention on social media rather than minigames ( at least from what I've seen ) . People are just growing up and slowing down to enjoy vanilla Minecraft. Humans are weird we can only handle so much new and excitement till we get bored and long for slow and old things.
I personaly have moved on from minecraft for the most part because they have added so many just unesacary items, places, and buildings. If it was the same old simple game I would still be playing it a lot, its honestly sad because I have been playing minecraft for 8 years and it was one of my first games. R.I.P
In the Pandemic my friends and I played Minecraft for hours on end, we have good memories of that time but all good things must come to an end even a game where I spent thousands of hours grinding on
Minecraft has tens of millions of users, so it isn’t the game’s popularity decline. It’s the fact every server never listens to its own players or their suggestions. When you ignore the population that supports your platform you start to fail. So many servers have died for the fact they never want to change. They want to add half assed updates that do the bare minimum.
I've always wondered why they've never released a snapshot where nothingbhas changed but the combat system was back to how it used to be. It wouldn't effect normal gameplay and would allow servers to get all the new items without having to lose the actually interesting pvp
As a player refusing to migrate, I've been forced to move from the vanilla launcher, to Badlion Client, then having to move to ATLauncher and losing all of my previous worlds until I succumb to migration, to losing access to non-cracked servers... that could be the reason. Migration sucks. I couldn't even be there for the final moments for one of my favorite servers, HiveMC. Unmigrated only lost access abt a month or two ago, but I wasnt able to join for a while beforehand. This game is going to hell, and it's because of Microsoft. I'm sorry, Minecraft. I'm sorry, Hypixel, HiveMC, and other servers suffering right now. I'm sorry I couldn't support you.
I know why hive and other servers are dying bc there is really less updates bc few days ago it was the Halloween update for the hive so there were like 18000 people in it but after two days they were managing about 8000 to 9000
My opinion is that people (myself included) are tired of the current generation of Minecraft servers because there's servers on the rise like Wynncraft, Tubnet, MCCI and Origin Realms that are rising. And it's simply evolution, if the old servers cant keep up they'll end up as fossils
Is it just me but after Technoblade passed away pretty much everyone had left the Minecraft community I myself who enjoys playing on Hive and other servers find it boring and had quit Minecraft (to put how much I loved playing hive, i was lvl 100 and lvl 40 in TW and Skyward before the extra levels update without the need of hive plus)
Well if you think of it, Technoblade was mostly part of the Java community. But an idol to the Minecraft RUclips Community. Just because he died wouldn’t mean the featured servers died. It was a big deal that he died, and I don’t really feel that connection to what’s happening to Bedrock Featured servers. Since what’s happening with them is only their problem to handle where people aren’t really playing their servers as much. Nonetheless, RIP Technoblade. o7
me and most of my friends stopped playing multiplayer because all the servers are so repetetive, but the censourship update that they added realy made us question, is it worth it to play multiplayer any more, so we just stick to sp now
If im being honest games have their peaks and their lows and right now Minecraft is in its low. I played lots of Minecraft in the past 2 years due to being inside all the time and honestly I just got bored. I was really upset that I got bored of it, every so often I log on and try to play Minecraft but I just haven't been able to. The points made in the video are very good and clear. Great Video
it's just that since it peaked during covid lockdown, it's just returning to it's original playercount. it only looks like servers are dying because we're used to seeing high numbers
before watching: I noticed this in march, thats when it started, and the summer helped a little bit, but by mid august there was no hope, there was a MASSIVE drop in server player counts. Zeqa's actually gone up and Cube is still getting +20k players, dont forget about tubnet and mcc island even tho i dnt play java those have had a big impact on the og's, and other games are popping off, and minecraft went from being magical to being microsofts money maker, and servers arent updating as much as they used to _________________________________________ after watching: yeah agreed, not much else i can say because the comments already said it
It just keeps happening, ever and over. Minecraft servers are boring, and maybe even Minecraft itself. It’s just not fun anymore, maybe because the devs done care or they just don’t listen to the community.
I'd have to say that I can't 100% get behind the third reason near the start of the video: "Mojang isn't taking the best care of their game/ruining the game." Microsoft now owns Mojang, so ultimately Mojang has to follow what Microsoft wants, which is what their shareholders want. Basically Mojang is being controlled by the people who have controlling interest in Microsoft whether they play the game or not.
the reason is there's a school so you don't have time to play games because there's homework and some reason they don't play it beacuse too many hackers playing in the server
Pandemic really did helped Minecraft because the way how you can use it to socialize with others when everyone is locked in their homes. And now, people are going out, that is one less reason to play Minecraft anymore. I think it's unfair for Mojang to be blamed solely because Hypixel and some other minigames server does not really depend on Mojang at all. Keep in mind that these Networks use 1.8 version to run their servers so whatever Mojang do will not affect them in anyway with an exception for SMP servers of course. Hence, these Networks should be at least take responsibility that their servers are somewhat dying due to their lack of updates and stuff. Anyway, I believe one factor that you forgot to mention which I really think what made Minecraft servers dying is because there are other games which people prefer nowadays such as Valorant, Genshin Impact, Roblox, etc. Most of my players switched to other games and I can't really blame them because it is what it is.
Hello, I play a lot of minepelx and am in the community and our only developer has stated that he hasn’t worked on the server in over a year. Also we got an update and they made that game pay to play and the game gets 0 players now. They are just greedy owners who just want money, and it breaks my heart because I love the server.
I have been on SO MANY servers, and offered reasonable suggestions to help fix the playability and balance for them, and they get ignored. Much of this is simple plugin adjustments and additions. Things like /rtp only working from spawn for some reason? Quest rewards auto dumping to the player inventory instead of having to be clicked to accept the item, causing people to lose quest rewards, being far too generous with vote rewards, and making many items cheap or easy to buy, causing there to be zero reason to actually mine anything. Just broken economies designed by some 22 year old kid who thinks they know what they are doing. It's just awful.
hypixels focus on skyblock didn't kill the other game modes, the other game modes have nothing to add. they have been out for over half a decade and haven't changed notably since.
only one thing needs to be said about servers dying, and that is "CHAT REPORTING"... if they have NOT been banned, they have been scared off in fear of being banned... i know this is not the ONLY reason, but IMO is the biggest reason... other factors will include crappy and hateful admins, an aging population "after all, most players have been playing since at least infdev", and then there is general player toxicity and trolling... after all who wants to play on a server where your builds will be destroyed in ALL manner of methods ranging from lava and tnt, to just plain stealing the blocks used.....
I tried getting back into public minecraft servers after being gone for a good ~8 years now, and good god the amount of bullshit is super hostile to any new player. Immediately you spawn in faced with 800 things to read, no direction, you're spammed with notifications you don't care about, almost every big server has tons of bullshit premium stuff that wants you to pay real money for something or another, they want you to link your socials like discord for bonus perks that you can't compete without, lootboxes up the ass... It just feels like modern minecraft servers looked at mobile games, and took literally every possible terrible mechanic they could and shoved it into their servers. I just want to build a base and do a little pvp man.
I've joined like 20 different servers in my journey and not lasted more than like 5 minutes in any of them. I've come to the conclusion You don't actually play minecraft in online servers anymore, you just do random bullshit.
And yet Hermitcraft still lives on and thrives as the best SMP. The reason Hermitcraft will last way longer than the Dream SMP is because it isn't scripted. When the Dream SMP runs out of ideas, it is over for them, but since it isn't scripted in Hermitcraft, it will never die because it is always a lot of fun.
@@frankgrimes7388 it’s around 2/3- 3/4 actually. The rest are either on break, are busy IRL, or focusing on other MC projects like vault hunters. And no the interactions on HC are sporadic and happen on the fly.
I believe it's mostly because everyone is TOO good at PvP now. All the fun gamemodes like Bed Wars or Sky wars are now infested with sweaty or tryhard players. It used to be fun when anyone could kill each other, but now it's just one guy soloing the entire lobby.
I think that would make it more fun. Sometimes, there are multiple sweats in one lobby. It gives the player more of a challenge, and it is just way more funner in my opinion.
@@SquareBoxHead There isn’t really more of a challenge when you’re immediately snowball spammed and then knocked off an island. I think it’s more fun when I die to someone on an equal playing field than someone who I didn’t even hit.
For me I think one issue is that as more updates get released servers become more unstable, not due to what’s inside the updates but rather due to back porting old ones, remember people still play Minecraft 1.8, a full 11 update back because of the new combat system, because of this server support 1.8 connection but also need to support all other versions, all with different codes and blocks, and the more updates that get launched the more unstable this is, it’s also likely expensive and buggy as hell, and all that mojang really needs to do in order to help server operators is have any sort gamerule that removes the weapon cool down so that spam clicking returns and servers can drop old support in favor of newer support, and it’ll be fun to play with shields, netherite and crossbows in servers, but sadly we likely won’t due to the fact mojang won’t write that line of code and rather tease a combat update in some snapshots then abandon it the next one
I agree not going to lie, both java and bedrock are having this problem on java, hypixel is the king, and so they have not put much effort into updates (such as the battle box rip off, wool wars) and their games havent been that fun since there isnt much new things. hopefully mcc island, tubnet, and other new servers can fix this problem.
POV: Literally a complete revamp of end island and people are still complaining (i mean is not their fault honestly at this point most kid want to play battle box more then games like Bw or SW sadly ;-;)
here’s the way I look at the hypixel development thing. the way I look at things is that pvp based per round games such as skywars do not nearly have the potential to continue going for years and years to come. At the end of the day there is only so much complexity you can add for a game that ends in 5 minutes, popular games still receive updates (and by god I have no idea how they even think of some of these) but I just simply don’t see the potential in them with something like skyblock. The game has ran it’s time and now there’s a new game with much higher potential that’s receiving a lot more attention. This isn’t necessarily something hypixel has done wrong, games eventually fall out of fashion and are replaced by others, hypixel not wasting time by shoving a significant portion of their cash into the hands of a once popular gamemode that has fallen out of style is a good thing. Out with the old, in with the new.
even then I just get annoyed with mojang when it comes to the topic of hypixel dying. 1.19 has been shown as a version with a lot more potential, and hypixel themselves (backend developer specifically) specified that they could update to later versions just fine, it’s simply that a majority of their playerbase plays on 1.8 (around 70%) so it wouldn’t be worth it. The more I think about this the more I credit this downfall to mojang. The only reason people still play on 1.8 is because of the terrible changes mojang have made whether that be in the performance department or combat department, bottlenecking the only thing keeping minecraft as a game alive
Being an old java hive player, i can tell you that they didnt care at all about the server, instead of taking care of their java server ( just releasing a game would help it ), they just let the server die and closed it to "move completly to bedrock", while they still dont give a shit
I think a experimental feature for 1.9 combat would be good so some players could use that if they wanted and some servers could use 1.9 combat and some could use 1.8 pvp,
hmmm the ability to use the old 1.8 combat with all of its core features in newer versions pretty nice concept(the combat plugins don't rlly count as they just make it possible but most 1.8 things are still broken)
@@xznex I have used the lord rayions Java combat addon but there are many glitches such as insane knockback combos from hitting them twice and many more it wold be a nice experimental feature though.
@@oworandom the reason bedrock will never get it or not get it for a long time it probably because of mobile devices as they don’t have a crosshair to show the recharge bar.
2:02 yea playing Minecraft for all those years made me go to battlefield, enlisted, single player games, mass effect and other fps game (mostly battlefield despite 2042 being garbage )
1. HiveMC is now shutdown and dead 2. Hypixel playerbase seems to have sucked in most of the other collective servers’ players thus making Hypixel one of the few truly active servers 3. Only server I have seen that stayed unchanged relatively throughout the years is Wynncraft. Neither drastically increasing in players nor dropping a lot
The game is still big and serves go down and up so this is natural and it will do the same for many more years. In 2012 the game was “died” then it went crazy when the big then died. All games have died then go big. Minecraft severs are all made by different people and sadly mojang does not support them.
Very interesting video. I think another part of why servers are losing players is that the resurgence of minecraft in 2019-2022 is wearing off. Even if the pandemic didn’t happen and the last few updates were done perfectly, the game can’t keep itself in the resurgence age forever.
absolutely - no game is going to stay on top forever
@@PotatoPie25 yes
Idk what resurgence means tho from what I saw recently I think minecraft has more p,Ayers than it ever did
@@gothicgolem2947 yeah, but the game isn't really trending rn, that's what it means
@@PotatoPie25 ive came back to mc, but i was gonna play java until Technoblade passed away, i have NO interest in playing java now
Minecraft has been trending downhill because of a multitude of factors. The server scene has become blander, there's an oversaturation of content and SMPs, the Minecraft community not being as tightly knit, to people just growing up just like what happened before when the game went downhill in the past. I'm willing to bet there will most likely be more resurgences. This game is nowhere near dead, along with the servers.
I don’t think minecraft will ever die tbh
Exactly, the people who were playing minecraft during its first peak all grew up and thats why it died for a little bit, then it came back but now those new kids are growing up and history will repeat itself.
@@noahparker50 idk about you i used to watch minecraft a lot from 2009 till 2014 then nothing until 2019 when i started watching content again and i’ve actually bought the game . I just play sometimes on hypixel skyblock but nothing more .
Minecraft needs 2 things : 1 a combat that is the same as 1.8 and 2 free servers for everyone . Ther’s no way i’m paying to play with friends
@@theteamxxx3142 there are free servers that you can run locally with friends you just need a good computer and the server software with something like bukkit for plugins to optimize the server and for the combat I think the state it is in is decent with the snapshots so idk why they'd just ditch that and go with 1.8 combat
@@theteamxxx3142 Ever heard of Aternos? It's limited, but it's a free option for multiplayer.
Being a Staff NetherGames, I have definitely noticed the player count has dropped A LOT, going from over 1k players throughout the to just less than 500 players during the evening time. Weekends we'd get over 2k especially on Saturdays. That no longer happens.
I used to hack a lot on nether games and I wanted to apologize for being annoying
Yeah, I see that, less that 50 players.
I love playing Bedwars on NetherGames! It really stinks how few players know about it and play on it, it’s seriously a pretty great server. The one issue I have is the amount of hackers on the server, although the number of them seems to be becoming fewer than before, which is good.
@@P3KK4 💀
@Apandawithagun xD
Honestly the fact you have to either paid or wait for ages just to get into MCCI and it still averages almost 1k players is a sign of hope for sure, when it's out for the public hopefully it'll be a hit and revive minecraft servers.
Tbh I wish potato mentioned that from what he said it sounded like it was available to the public and only had almost 1k players
I mean to be fair the same could be said with 2b2t when it is popular, but yeah really interested in MCCI offical release!
There is hope, main reason for only 1k players is lack of people willing to pay to bypass the wait and instead waiting
@@oworandom yeah technically, a bit different as 2b2t has a player cap due to it being just 1 world, not like MCCI which is a multi network server (lots of worlds)
What is that?
The Microsoft account migration has also definitely made people stop trying to even play. I tried to play like 6 months ago and it wouldn't let me migrate so I gave up and decided to play other games. Some people lost the usernames they had for a decade or more, because of this probably partially ruining the game for them.
A great way to avoid it is to use lunar. Even if you have to migrate, you cant be affected by microsoft's wants.
Took me forever to migrate my account had to contact customers service to get it done.
I also had some problems with account migration. It kept me off MC for about 2 years or so, and only last week I got it working again.
You don’t have to migrate if you use an older version of the technic launcher. Just keep quiet about it or we’ll lose it
I tried to migrate my Minecraft account, but I consonantly ran into issues. Then the launcher crashed which killed my interest of Minecraft.
i wish i could go back 7 years ago, back to 2016, where Servers had competition
Hive VS Hypixel VS Mineplex. Today, Minecraft multiplayer is basically: "open minecraft, click in multiplayer, play Hypixel for the 1000th time"
Just wanted to let you know that MCC Island is still in closed beta, so it's player counts are not really comparable to other servers. 700 for closed beta is really good imo.
I remember playing cc and hive on its peak in January...
Crazy times
same
in oarsch
@@raphix2 ?
Didn’t hive kill their servers like years ago
@@claudia-uy5gk its still alive on bedrock
i think another big issue that you didn't mention coming from the devs is the reporting system, that has been ruffling tons of feathers and as many people have mentioned being banned from multiplayer basically indefinitely when servers were already doing fine on their own and people could at least learn from those mistakes and join different servers before then. it just doesn't make sense.
its sad to see what happened to mineplex, genuinely my favorite server when i was younger and a lot of good memories, logged on a few months ago to play some games since i hadnt played it in years and the player count was so low i couldnt get into any games
Same! I used to play on that server all the time. I logged on to play something for old times sake.. and there was not a soul..
From avarage 30k players to barely 300 players :(
At least the bedrock version still going decent
As a player for the combat test snapshots and up there with the top players at one point I do agree on what you said and it is very irritating knowing that the snapshots aren't going to be released in a long time or potentially never. I also agree on what you said about mojang kind of slacking off and not delivering what they promised as the past few "major" updates has been a "major" disapointment. But great video! ❤
agreed
I can definitely relate playing Minecraft mainly for content purposes. I ONLY play for fun if I'm extremely bored and have nothing to do. But very informative video. I agree with a lot of points. I still enjoy Minecraft, but yes, I can admit it has been on a downfall lately
Same i agree
I have had like 5000 hour of play time in the last 3 years and i agree and i am not liying hypixel skyblock is a grindy game
and now i can barely play it for an hour withot getting bored and the same happend with
all my real life friends. Minecraft isnt fun anymore and hypixel focused all there resources on skyblock and people still complain about the lack of updates
@@starve1197 sky block got no updates up until like 6 months ago
Fr, a couple of servers i used to play back in like 2018-2019 used to have like 5k+ players (Prison serevrs, factions, a lot of gamemodes) i quit some of them in like 2021, came back in 2023 a few days ago to see my favorite server go from 5k players average daily 3 yrs ago to barely 100 players....
@@starve1197 u got bored 9f minecraft
Very well made video, I basically agree to everything said in this video. I hope to see more resurgences in time but I think another ray of hope is if Mojang takes the time to fix the very apparent issues with the game, especially on the bedrock side of things. I bet if 1.19 didn't have the FPS / input delay issues, along with pink glitch, a lot of bedrock edition servers would still be down but not to the degree it is now. Plus, it would offer servers more functionality with the game itself to allow for more updates.
Good take. Mojang has been working around on fixing long-term MCBE bugs, recently being 1.19.50.21, with the Nether Glitch being patched out of the game. New bugs do happen from time to time, and if Mojang can work to resolve these bugs, then it’s a good time for Bedrock Edition.
No way, it's A hive helper
We need transfer packets in Java.
The main way I believe Bedrock and Java servers can go back up is if the new combat update was released on both versions.
That’s a good idea
This won't really change much imo. Most java servers (Hypixel in particular) run on 1.8. This is partially because of the worse combat system in 1.9+ but also because newer updates are terrible for server efficiency. Even if there was a combat update implemented its likely Hypixel and other servers still won't switch.
@@oliverjacobs8594 I think Hypixel would maybe switch or maybe depending what version you join the server on depends what combat you use (different lobby’s for different combats). Also they kinda dying rn so maybe that switch would be what they need for everyone to get interested again.
@@Dawott I don't think making the pvp gamemodes have 2 versions would do much. Skyblock is basically whats keeping the server up.
@@Dawott Hypixel would never switch
most they'd do is add a new mini game
Not every server has been trending downwards. When Wynncraft 2.0 was released it brought the server to the highest player count in the server's history. As with every update the player count steadily dropped after some time but when the next update is announced, hype starts building up and players return once more. If people are willing to update their server, then players will continue to play on it.
Wynncraft W
Wynncraft wooooo
I kinda stopped playing on servers cuz I'm scared of the chat report system being abused still.
I know it's been 10 months, but you don't have to worry. Most servers have plugins that disable it; it's basically like it never happened. Nobody ever gets reported.
Content had a big impact on minecraft, and the lack of content/repetition are causing the loss of players
And the main problem is the pandemic, we had a lot of free time to play, we played a lot that we got tired of it and we just left, many of my friends became sweats and just quit after like 1000 hrs of playing
The thing is, servers reached the peak in lockdown, and when you reach the peak the only way is down
Servers are not dying. Well, mostly. You see, ever since school started up again most servers lost 50% of their players because of homework and school. I hardly even get to play anymore because of school and all the homework that comes with it and I can guarantee you that a lot of other people can say the same.
This is something I noticed with RUclips aswell. In 2021 near the end of the school year I was seeing a lot of creators come together and making similar RUclips shorts about minecraft. These incldue GEVids, PigPong, BeeseChurger, and more. That same RUclips Shorts Minecraft trend is long lost and it isn't the same. Most of those people either ran out of ideas and are recycling them and making bad videos, or they just fell off due to the lack of people wanting to watch these Shorts. PigPong has a video with like 150m views and you can't pull those numbers making his video nowadays. I hope Minecraft sees a come back soon for both RUclips and servers in general as it was very awesome to see the community thriving
even i left minecraft for 1 year and when i came back my all friends and servers are gone
Minecraft never truly dies. There's a new golden age like every 5 years. Some of the older players grow up, and because of new responsibilities, they can not play as much, new players join, and the game continues.
Faxs bro
Not to make it sound like an advertisement(but it will sound like that lol), but i haven't heard anybody mention Origin Realms, sure the amount of people playing it is 350-800 at most but the sheer quality of content over there just suprises everyone, they pioneered gestures, smooth cutscenes, new animated mobs in vanilla and they're still improving!
I think a large part of Hypixel's decline has been Techno, who was basically the most popular, most funny and probably best Hypixel RUclipsr, maybe even player in general.
The Dream SMP might also be included in Minecraft's general decline, since it was the most popular SMP on the server that is now essentially inactive
rip techno
tbh it’s probably just because everyone is bored of skywars and bedwars and that’s part of the main player base on hypixel skyblock has taken over of course but you can only play that for so long too
I'd say the main reason that skywars barely pulls 1,000 is because of their bug ridden trainwreck of an update that made the games problems even worse while fixing issues that were never issues in the first place, along with removing 4 lab modes and ranked mode, making them go from 1,000 players in only solo mode to less than 1,000 total
Finally a actual video on this problem
The game definitely isn’t dying, people are just doing normal things again. Minecraft is returning to the numbers it used to have, definitely not dying though
Is it, i never see this game sick like that, bedrock kid save it but at what cost... Ass server, money take the lead, Copy/Paste content, at least 50% of the servers are dead, i never struggle that hard to just play4fun on Minecraft server. (Just download the game after few years is a challenge)
@@VaRTaXAnOnYm agreed
My fear for MCCi is that once they fully release, everything is reset, so the longtime players who feel "exclusive" won't anymore. Tubnet I have little to no hope for. It was a real race for who can be the next new big server it seemed, and Noxcrew definitely had more weight.
Hey, Just wanted to say “negelect” spelling is wrong when you were listing out individual server problems at the start. It’s “neglect” FYI. If you read this, could you give a heart 😅😅😅?
Probably the best video I seen on this situation I hate the people who just say it's because of 1 thing that's effecting a server but in reality it's a bunch of things effect mostly every server at the moment
My prediction is that this downwards trend of minecraft's popularity will be similar to the 2015-2018 dark ages and there will be a new revival down the line. It's funny how long this game has been around that the pattern of it's popularity is starting to show itself. The fact that it rose from the dead ONCE is already an impressive feat
to some extent, Hypixel has been going shady since they cut off the whole volunteer-based moderation team and go on only letting official workers to do them. they only got their huge success during the pandemic for the excellent service and features players want at the time. now, it seems they are slowly going on the path for profits while trying to protect staff from any backlash. it's much more frightening that there are people being whiteknights for Hypixel *as players themselves.*
hypixel died a long time ago, they just refuse to call time of death.
Idk about anyone else, but after techno's death, I just lost all of my interest in minecraft content. His unique personality and content was the biggest factor that got me hooked into playing the game in the first place. So with him gone, I just feel sad and bored playing in minecraft servers,
Hypixel skywars got very unpopular due to an update that only allowed you to use 6 skywars perks at once instead of being able to use any you want. This may not sound bad on the surface because it allows new players to have a fighting chance, but in reality the game became less fun because you can’t use any perks that make the gamemode fun because they aren’t meta.
There’s also progression based skill-tree in skywars that give perks as rewards but you can’t use them because you can only use 6 perks at once.
it was unpopular before
Two things:
One: Hosting a private server is MUCH cheaper and MUCH easier these days, with many more options (and even free options) available to players, who may just want their own small servers with friends.
Two: Modded SMPs are taking off in a huge way.
Combine these two points = less players in public vanilla servers
Modded MC has always been my way to go, I like vanilla but to me the end game is just defeat ender dragon, defeat wither, done. Mods add much more to the play style and even to the creativity. I get underwhelmed with the vanilla options when creating a home or build but when theres mods then the brain juices get flowing for me.
I have stopped playing/watching minecraft, and all of a sudden i see this video. I think all your points are genuinely correct, but I feel like we need to remember that most servers don’t have the region of Oceania, I, personally being one of the people who live in the Oceania region, have stopped playing due to everything being delayed, I still won’t forget when the Oceania region came out to Hive for like a week? And it became fun because I wasn’t always just versing people who would get their hits earlier when I have the same cps as them. Tbh I feel like minecraft can come back, just not right now. (rlly nice video btw)
very sad considering that hive had 80,000 online at one point and now its barely getting over 5,000 players :(
I see it on 3000 before
I have played Minecraft for 7 years now and recently quit it. It just got boring in 2020, and then I found the Hive. I had so much fun with it, then covid started. I was a Minecraft maniac. However after world reopened I started getting more social and started focusing on schoolwork. I still liked Minecraft and played it. Then it got boring again. I didn't enjoy the Hive or Minecraft in general. I just quit after that. Now I play rpg, gacha games like Genshin Impact. I just generally think Minecraft is dying and has to do something to keep it alive. Thank you for the video.
I think it's because the old update is becoming unpopular since the new updates have been better and better as the years go on. Like I don't even care if the "wild update" is underwhelming, the caves/cliffs update was so good that they don't even need anything else for a while.
Yes, truth be told, spam clicking becomes boring eventually. Maybe the rest of the toxic PVP community should get with the times.
It got boring because its been around since the games release. The new iteration of it isn't any better imo, just as boring
The server migration killed the game for a lot of people I know. I’ve had to migrate 2 times now and a lot of people I know ran into issues, lost their accounts, etc. just wasn’t worth the hassle so they moved on to other games
As a staff on Blockstackers network, we also noticed that too, TPS used to suffer from the players being too much
and now...
It is interesting how Minecraft had a huge comeback while Minecraft servers besides Hypixel and a few other big names did not.
I hope to see more experimentation with servers staying updated to the latest version of MC and leaving 1.8 in the past
I play less nowadays, just had stuff happening when things opening up, also experience burnout after project and project and trying to top them all with the biggest yet, and that timing of burnout, the world opening up and finally able to touch grass led to just playing less after a month break from the game
You gotta remember minecraft servers started with a just a big group of friends, wanting to play multiplayer
minecraft. just look how much it has evolved from just friends playing minecraft together.
Btw, the compliance resource pack is called faithful now. Mainly because it’s considered the actual continuation of the project rather than kraineff’s faithful.
I think when summer ends a lot of people will come pack. Not all but a lot. When kids can't play outside anymore because of the weather they will come back to their online games. Summer is just deadly for games...
It's literally the opposite; games tend to hit their peak players in the summer when school's out.
Very good video! One thing though, MCC Island's relatively low player count is due to it still being in closed beta
I think one of the problems too is the lack of minigames in the servers, I used to play a lot of those back in 2013, you could find games like, hunger games, destroy the nexus, humans vs zombies, protect the village, capture the flag, LoL type of games too, pinturillo, I remember playing a team fortress 2 game mode in a server, some CoD type of games as well etc. nowadays all I can find is factions, survival and creative (these are just the base game), bedwars, pixelmon (literally a mod anyone can download), skywars, and not much more, they are always the same and now the servers are full of advertisements and paid cosmetics, there's not that sense of community there used to be back in 2013 where there used to be a lot of lobbies for different game modes and everyone talked to each other and added each other on social media to continue playing together, nowadays that got lost somewhere.
Man its sad to see my childhood server is slowly dying :((
I feel the same too..
i’m on the side of people who just got bored of minecraft after life opened again i used to love playing the game and there was a time where i wanted to play skyways on cubecraft (my favorite server) everyday and now i don’t even feel like playing minecraft
I used to play alot on servers when I was younger. I just stopped playing minigames and just played the game. I've never gone back. I think many players are doing this. Single player has been getting more attention on social media rather than minigames ( at least from what I've seen ) . People are just growing up and slowing down to enjoy vanilla Minecraft. Humans are weird we can only handle so much new and excitement till we get bored and long for slow and old things.
I think we are just getting older, and new generation wanna play new games
I personaly have moved on from minecraft for the most part because they have added so many just unesacary items, places, and buildings. If it was the same old simple game I would still be playing it a lot, its honestly sad because I have been playing minecraft for 8 years and it was one of my first games. R.I.P
Probably a major reason is the input lag and other bugs plaguing bedrock, literally is the 11th most voted bug on the tracker now....
In the Pandemic my friends and I played Minecraft for hours on end, we have good memories of that time but all good things must come to an end even a game where I spent thousands of hours grinding on
Minecraft has tens of millions of users, so it isn’t the game’s popularity decline. It’s the fact every server never listens to its own players or their suggestions.
When you ignore the population that supports your platform you start to fail. So many servers have died for the fact they never want to change. They want to add half assed updates that do the bare minimum.
I've always wondered why they've never released a snapshot where nothingbhas changed but the combat system was back to how it used to be. It wouldn't effect normal gameplay and would allow servers to get all the new items without having to lose the actually interesting pvp
As a player refusing to migrate, I've been forced to move from the vanilla launcher, to Badlion Client, then having to move to ATLauncher and losing all of my previous worlds until I succumb to migration, to losing access to non-cracked servers... that could be the reason. Migration sucks. I couldn't even be there for the final moments for one of my favorite servers, HiveMC. Unmigrated only lost access abt a month or two ago, but I wasnt able to join for a while beforehand. This game is going to hell, and it's because of Microsoft. I'm sorry, Minecraft. I'm sorry, Hypixel, HiveMC, and other servers suffering right now. I'm sorry I couldn't support you.
I know why hive and other servers are dying bc there is really less updates bc few days ago it was the Halloween update for the hive so there were like 18000 people in it but after two days they were managing about 8000 to 9000
My opinion is that people (myself included) are tired of the current generation of Minecraft servers because there's servers on the rise like Wynncraft, Tubnet, MCCI and Origin Realms that are rising. And it's simply evolution, if the old servers cant keep up they'll end up as fossils
also skyblock isles when that comes back
Is it just me but after Technoblade passed away pretty much everyone had left the Minecraft community
I myself who enjoys playing on Hive and other servers find it boring and had quit Minecraft (to put how much I loved playing hive, i was lvl 100 and lvl 40 in TW and Skyward before the extra levels update without the need of hive plus)
Well if you think of it, Technoblade was mostly part of the Java community. But an idol to the Minecraft RUclips Community.
Just because he died wouldn’t mean the featured servers died. It was a big deal that he died, and I don’t really feel that connection to what’s happening to Bedrock Featured servers. Since what’s happening with them is only their problem to handle where people aren’t really playing their servers as much.
Nonetheless, RIP Technoblade. o7
Dude I just miss Minecraft back in 2016 and when the game was popular, it just was so much fun, now its like Minecraft is dying so much.
me and most of my friends stopped playing multiplayer because all the servers are so repetetive, but the censourship update that they added realy made us question, is it worth it to play multiplayer any more, so we just stick to sp now
If im being honest games have their peaks and their lows and right now Minecraft is in its low. I played lots of Minecraft in the past 2 years due to being inside all the time and honestly I just got bored. I was really upset that I got bored of it, every so often I log on and try to play Minecraft but I just haven't been able to. The points made in the video are very good and clear. Great Video
it's just that since it peaked during covid lockdown, it's just returning to it's original playercount. it only looks like servers are dying because we're used to seeing high numbers
before watching: I noticed this in march, thats when it started, and the summer helped a little bit, but by mid august there was no hope, there was a MASSIVE drop in server player counts. Zeqa's actually gone up and Cube is still getting +20k players, dont forget about tubnet and mcc island even tho i dnt play java those have had a big impact on the og's, and other games are popping off, and minecraft went from being magical to being microsofts money maker, and servers arent updating as much as they used to
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after watching: yeah agreed, not much else i can say because the comments already said it
I don't think Tubnet and MCC island or any future server can revive MC multiplayer if Mojang and Microsoft keep screwing up the game.
i LOVE your cut scene in the beginning it looked truly amazing
Imagine Mojang creating a bioweapon just so the world can quarantine and play Minecraft
It just keeps happening, ever and over. Minecraft servers are boring, and maybe even Minecraft itself. It’s just not fun anymore, maybe because the devs done care or they just don’t listen to the community.
I feel like modded Minecraft is whats keeping the game alive. Infact ive been working on my own modpack.
I'd have to say that I can't 100% get behind the third reason near the start of the video: "Mojang isn't taking the best care of their game/ruining the game."
Microsoft now owns Mojang, so ultimately Mojang has to follow what Microsoft wants, which is what their shareholders want. Basically Mojang is being controlled by the people who have controlling interest in Microsoft whether they play the game or not.
the reason is there's a school so you don't have time to play games because there's homework and some reason they don't play it beacuse too many hackers playing in the server
Third vid in a week! This is truly a pog champ moment.
you should make a video about tiktok servers
Like you?💀
Pandemic really did helped Minecraft because the way how you can use it to socialize with others when everyone is locked in their homes. And now, people are going out, that is one less reason to play Minecraft anymore.
I think it's unfair for Mojang to be blamed solely because Hypixel and some other minigames server does not really depend on Mojang at all. Keep in mind that these Networks use 1.8 version to run their servers so whatever Mojang do will not affect them in anyway with an exception for SMP servers of course. Hence, these Networks should be at least take responsibility that their servers are somewhat dying due to their lack of updates and stuff.
Anyway, I believe one factor that you forgot to mention which I really think what made Minecraft servers dying is because there are other games which people prefer nowadays such as Valorant, Genshin Impact, Roblox, etc. Most of my players switched to other games and I can't really blame them because it is what it is.
This explains why a lot of RUclipsrs who usually play on servers switch to like survival mods
Hello, I play a lot of minepelx and am in the community and our only developer has stated that he hasn’t worked on the server in over a year. Also we got an update and they made that game pay to play and the game gets 0 players now. They are just greedy owners who just want money, and it breaks my heart because I love the server.
I have been on SO MANY servers, and offered reasonable suggestions to help fix the playability and balance for them, and they get ignored. Much of this is simple plugin adjustments and additions. Things like /rtp only working from spawn for some reason? Quest rewards auto dumping to the player inventory instead of having to be clicked to accept the item, causing people to lose quest rewards, being far too generous with vote rewards, and making many items cheap or easy to buy, causing there to be zero reason to actually mine anything. Just broken economies designed by some 22 year old kid who thinks they know what they are doing. It's just awful.
hypixels focus on skyblock didn't kill the other game modes, the other game modes have nothing to add. they have been out for over half a decade and haven't changed notably since.
only one thing needs to be said about servers dying, and that is "CHAT REPORTING"... if they have NOT been banned, they have been scared off in fear of being banned... i know this is not the ONLY reason, but IMO is the biggest reason... other factors will include crappy and hateful admins, an aging population "after all, most players have been playing since at least infdev", and then there is general player toxicity and trolling... after all who wants to play on a server where your builds will be destroyed in ALL manner of methods ranging from lava and tnt, to just plain stealing the blocks used.....
I tried getting back into public minecraft servers after being gone for a good ~8 years now, and good god the amount of bullshit is super hostile to any new player. Immediately you spawn in faced with 800 things to read, no direction, you're spammed with notifications you don't care about, almost every big server has tons of bullshit premium stuff that wants you to pay real money for something or another, they want you to link your socials like discord for bonus perks that you can't compete without, lootboxes up the ass... It just feels like modern minecraft servers looked at mobile games, and took literally every possible terrible mechanic they could and shoved it into their servers.
I just want to build a base and do a little pvp man.
and for some reason everything is in like 300 different colours, where every word seems to need to be a different colour for some fucking reason.
I've joined like 20 different servers in my journey and not lasted more than like 5 minutes in any of them. I've come to the conclusion You don't actually play minecraft in online servers anymore, you just do random bullshit.
And yet Hermitcraft still lives on and thrives as the best SMP. The reason Hermitcraft will last way longer than the Dream SMP is because it isn't scripted. When the Dream SMP runs out of ideas, it is over for them, but since it isn't scripted in Hermitcraft, it will never die because it is always a lot of fun.
@@frankgrimes7388 it’s around 2/3- 3/4 actually. The rest are either on break, are busy IRL, or focusing on other MC projects like vault hunters.
And no the interactions on HC are sporadic and happen on the fly.
damn. Anyone else sad the game we grew up playing is dying? :(
This dosnt happen in any other servers but sometimes when I try join mineplex it kicks me off so I can’t join most the time
Hive be like “wouldn’t it be funny if we teased a new game mode for several months just for it to be sky wars+”
I believe it's mostly because everyone is TOO good at PvP now. All the fun gamemodes like Bed Wars or Sky wars are now infested with sweaty or tryhard players. It used to be fun when anyone could kill each other, but now it's just one guy soloing the entire lobby.
I think that would make it more fun. Sometimes, there are multiple sweats in one lobby. It gives the player more of a challenge, and it is just way more funner in my opinion.
@@SquareBoxHead There isn’t really more of a challenge when you’re immediately snowball spammed and then knocked off an island. I think it’s more fun when I die to someone on an equal playing field than someone who I didn’t even hit.
I remember playing Lichcraft, Mineplex, etc etc. Now I can’t even find a good server to play.
For me I think one issue is that as more updates get released servers become more unstable, not due to what’s inside the updates but rather due to back porting old ones, remember people still play Minecraft 1.8, a full 11 update back because of the new combat system, because of this server support 1.8 connection but also need to support all other versions, all with different codes and blocks, and the more updates that get launched the more unstable this is, it’s also likely expensive and buggy as hell, and all that mojang really needs to do in order to help server operators is have any sort gamerule that removes the weapon cool down so that spam clicking returns and servers can drop old support in favor of newer support, and it’ll be fun to play with shields, netherite and crossbows in servers, but sadly we likely won’t due to the fact mojang won’t write that line of code and rather tease a combat update in some snapshots then abandon it the next one
I agree not going to lie, both java and bedrock are having this problem
on java, hypixel is the king, and so they have not put much effort into updates (such as the battle box rip off, wool wars) and their games havent been that fun since there isnt much new things. hopefully mcc island, tubnet, and other new servers can fix this problem.
POV: Literally a complete revamp of end island and people are still complaining (i mean is not their fault honestly at this point most kid want to play battle box more then games like Bw or SW sadly ;-;)
here’s the way I look at the hypixel development thing. the way I look at things is that pvp based per round games such as skywars do not nearly have the potential to continue going for years and years to come. At the end of the day there is only so much complexity you can add for a game that ends in 5 minutes, popular games still receive updates (and by god I have no idea how they even think of some of these) but I just simply don’t see the potential in them with something like skyblock. The game has ran it’s time and now there’s a new game with much higher potential that’s receiving a lot more attention. This isn’t necessarily something hypixel has done wrong, games eventually fall out of fashion and are replaced by others, hypixel not wasting time by shoving a significant portion of their cash into the hands of a once popular gamemode that has fallen out of style is a good thing. Out with the old, in with the new.
even then I just get annoyed with mojang when it comes to the topic of hypixel dying. 1.19 has been shown as a version with a lot more potential, and hypixel themselves (backend developer specifically) specified that they could update to later versions just fine, it’s simply that a majority of their playerbase plays on 1.8 (around 70%) so it wouldn’t be worth it. The more I think about this the more I credit this downfall to mojang. The only reason people still play on 1.8 is because of the terrible changes mojang have made whether that be in the performance department or combat department, bottlenecking the only thing keeping minecraft as a game alive
I am playing Minecraft on Nintendo Switch and the Performance on Servers is pretty good to good
Being an old java hive player, i can tell you that they didnt care at all about the server, instead of taking care of their java server ( just releasing a game would help it ), they just let the server die and closed it to "move completly to bedrock", while they still dont give a shit
I think a experimental feature for 1.9 combat would be good so some players could use that if they wanted and some servers could use 1.9 combat and some could use 1.8 pvp,
hmmm
the ability to use the old 1.8 combat with all of its core features in newer versions
pretty nice concept(the combat plugins don't rlly count as they just make it possible but most 1.8 things are still broken)
@@xznex I have used the lord rayions Java combat addon but there are many glitches such as insane knockback combos from hitting them twice and many more it wold be a nice experimental feature though.
@@xznex Sad thatMojang just said no like a few yrs ago :cries:
@@oworandom the reason bedrock will never get it or not get it for a long time it probably because of mobile devices as they don’t have a crosshair to show the recharge bar.
I think if they wanted a perfect blend they should add some sort of dagger item that has the new sword cooldown since ive seen 1.9 pvp get popular
Potato pie uploads 3 videos in a week? IMPOSSIBLE. Anyways good video
I feel as though this is partly a case of nothing exists that can entertain you forever. Eventually, you'll get bored and move on.
2:02 yea playing Minecraft for all those years made me go to battlefield, enlisted, single player games, mass effect and other fps game (mostly battlefield despite 2042 being garbage )
1. HiveMC is now shutdown and dead
2. Hypixel playerbase seems to have sucked in most of the other collective servers’ players thus making Hypixel one of the few truly active servers
3. Only server I have seen that stayed unchanged relatively throughout the years is Wynncraft. Neither drastically increasing in players nor dropping a lot
The game is still big and serves go down and up so this is natural and it will do the same for many more years. In 2012 the game was “died” then it went crazy when the big then died. All games have died then go big. Minecraft severs are all made by different people and sadly mojang does not support them.
Tbh it’s nothing is wrong with Minecraft or the servers its just that we are growing up...
Skyblock during 2020 was peak times bro hypixel averaged 100k players but now it's less than 60k