Mineplex is dead... but why?

[@mcbyt]

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[@peterwille8239]

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[@Grayem]

what shader are you using at 6:35?

[@mcbyt]

@@Grayem sildur's enhanced default :)

[@Grayem]

@@mcbyt on fancy or fast?

[@mcbyt]

@@Grayem fancy

[@joshuarichardson6206]

As someone who was a senior moderator on mineplex for many years, I can say with certainty that part of the reason the server failed was because the administration did not listen to the community. Whether it was because they were stuck on a high horse, or because they simply didn’t care, it was sad to see.

[@breadm8101]

No you weren't

[@definitelyzackk]

Username?

[@IStole.]

social security number? house address? name?

[@TheOfficialLonestar]

Gandmothers maiden name?

[@arrax_s]

@@breadm8101 "I have never met this person nor in game or in real life so I'm just gonna assume that they are lying! I'll get so many likes! 🤓"

[@Acrellux]

Mineplex was my favorite server in 2016. I played Housing to relax and liked that people could join and see. But then, the gamemode started falling apart. My builds were completely deleted for no reason, the private filter didn't work, and I was kicked from the server almost every 5 minutes. I log on years later, and all of my builds are gone. It's so sad to see them ignore everything and keep running like nothing's wrong.

[@Verymusician193]

Me too, I loved that server the games were so unique

[@thefrenchmanleo]

Rip mineplex

[@Apex1zero]

I also played Mineplex mostly because of housing, but now can’t even JOIN my house plot anymore so I don’t play it any more

[@arttukettunen5757]

I logged to mineplex to claim daily reward for years after it started dropping and never saw housing there??

[@sdani.]

I loved turf tag

[@grass1413]

I never knew Mineplex was dying (in Java) as I quit it after some time. I feel like many of us here might have too. Honestly, it was one of the most fun servers I have ever played. Sure, there might have been some toxicity, but it was tolerable. Some of you might disagree in the comments. It does, slightly hurt, to see one of my favorites fall from its throne. I couldn't dare to say "it was just a game", since many, many memories were made for me. R.I.P. Mineplex. Happy Holidays, and Merry Christmas (for those who are celebrating it right now) to all.

[@RariaRoyal]

Yeah kinda same, I found out it was dead when I tried to log in and it only has few hundred players and barely any games the hub was dead and wayyyy smaller then it used to be. And I tried playing a few games but no one joined and I just called it quits.

[@simonmarcu01]

I quit mostly because of hackers, who were in turn killing the community and most of the fun mini games that I liked were starting to close because of lack of players. It was just an unfortunate domino effect starting from poor management.

[@simonmarcu01]

@enrique amaya ok but what does Jesus have to do with a minecraft server? :)))

[@RariaRoyal]

@enrique amaya uhhh Wtf lol

[@parispc]

Actively played Mineplex from 2013-2017. So sad to see what it has become today. I have so many fond memories of the server back then with modes such as Castle Siege and Bridges.

[@skullpixiedust]

Bridges was the shit!!

[@parispc]

@@skullpixiedust Something about that mode was so fun. Even though I sucked at pvp I still had a ton of fun.

[@skullpixiedust]

@@parispc Ikr. Wish I could play it again.

[@fitmotheyap]

Tell me if you ever find a replacement, I never managed to find one for any gamemodes

[@parispc]

@@fitmotheyap I bet Mineplex will have a resurgence due to nostalgia if they just slightly get their stuff together.

[@blokplaser69]

As a former Mineplex Mod, I felt like there was a huge disconnect between leadership (owners & devs) and the rest of the staff team. Mineplex also failed to innovate or if they did get creative with a game it would be left to die.

[@SuperT]

I remember how awesome Skyfall and evolution were. They were like the only games I played and then they got removed like bruh

[@pacerqil]

Mineplex is only still hosted right now because it’s somehow self-sustaining. Every owner for the last 6-7 years haven’t even played minecraft because they’re all investors, and if the server sustains itself when they genuinely don’t have to do anything, the incentive to just let it kick the can down the road until it finally dies off is there. It’s more or less been like that since the EULA changes in 2014, but exacerbated when the last Owner who ever cared left in 2017. I think this is by far the biggest reason for its slow death

[@huxs8995]

pace please have my babies

[@Kunzite0060]

@@huxs8995 what

[@kaiven7164]

hi pace

[@AceMonkeyIlium]

@@kaiven7164 hey

[@Johnmaloney1962]

@enrique amaya ok

[@DJCerc]

I remember playing Mineplex almost every day back when it came to bedrock. It was awesome, especially cake wars. It’s sad seeing what it’s become now.

[@iimuffinsaur]

Bedrock mineplex is still pretty popular I think, helps that there is only a few servers on bedrock for some of the consoles it can be on.

[@midknightgraze]

​@@iimuffinsaur Mineplex is seriously broken on bedrock as well, you can't even tp to the survival gamemode, the anti-cheat is non-existent and obviously many broken feutures

[@UltraAryan10]

@@iimuffinsaur Mineplex Bedrock used to be way better but now its also dying atleast in terms of gameplay.

[@Adrian-kb4rg]

@@midknightgraze theres also a lot less games now, i remember a few years ago i remember the lobby that had these 3 sections with like 10 games each and now theres less than 10

[@OnlyOozyJay]

@@iimuffinsaur Yeah it's still pretty popular, but I remember 1 or 2 years ago they used to get 6k players average. Now I see them struggling to breach 4k

[@AbleToStrafe]

I was introduced to Mineplex in 2013 on Java. Never played it too seriously, just for fun. In like 2015 or 2016 I stopped playing minecraft. It wasn’t until 2018 I picked it back up on accident when I saw Mineplex was available to play on xbox. It was nostalgic and a lot of fun. I got into one of their games called Cake Wars on Bedrock. I grinded for a leaderboard spot and got to know players. Eventually started a youtube channel and was having fun there. In 2020 some serious Mineplex drama went down (in which I was apart of and was a main informant on the MisterEpic video). I actually ended up network banned/permanently banned from the server because of my involvement. I eventually appealed and came back in December of 2020. When I got back I was really only motivated to get YT rank. It took me a almost year despite meeting the requirements every time just to get accepted. All throughout this time Mineplex was always super terrible at communicating. They never spoke with the community. They never went out of their way to hire more bedrock developers despite me knowing people who applied for the position. They said they were looking, and there are screenshots. But they never hired help for the single bedrock dev. The server is a 💩 show. No true update since July of 2021. The Mineplex Staff are not the ones to blame however. I have friends in there and I know that they work their butt off. The problem is that they don’t get the support from leadership roles (Admins, and Owners). Currently Bedrock staff can’t ban for reach hacks on the server. It’s hilarious how bad it is for bedrock nowdays. Usually around the holidays they release a themed update. They recycled the same one from 3 years ago for the past couple years for Halloween, and Christmas. Unfortunately this year we never got a Christmas update. Nothing. They are a mess. There is so much more drama that could be talked about but there’s no point. The server is not going to EVER comeback. I hope it burns to the ground. They do not care about their product or the players who play. It’s a business afterall, and even though Mineplex is dead. They are still making a ton of money off of the young playerbase on bedrock who buy ranks and their skin packs and so long. The income is still there, but they choose not to fix anything. I mean, who could blame the greedy owners? If you were making money without doing much. Would you change? Lol, it’s just a joke at this point. There are still loyal players on Mineplex and I just tell them the same thing. Mineplex will never learn, and they refuse to change. Enough said (:

[@GlowGamerKSA]

Agreed

[@Sheep-Shagger]

I ain't reading allat 😭🙏

[@quivvs910]

Ratio

[@nerfedforreal]

@@Sheep-Shagger I'll give you a quick summary Bro got introduced to mineplex bedrock & grinded cakewars for a leaderboard spot. He made a Yt channel eventually & gained losts of subs. july of 2020 there was drama that got him banned off of the network (discord, forums, & server. he would make content on other servers) December 2020 he got unbanned & got YT rank. Mineplex was always very bad at communicating w/ the community & were "looking" for devs. Server hasnt been updated since 2021 and is a 💩show. The java server wont ever come back, but the bedrock server is making a lot of money from kids.

[@peterlewis2178]

@enrique amaya Well, I can promise you that millions of people do in fact regret that, so your claim is demonstrably false.

[@weegee888ZEN]

I played a full lobby of block hunt yesterday somehow and it was the most exciting feeling ever. I felt like I was playing with my cousin back in 2016 and my other friends and having so much fun. I got into a second game after doing good in the first one then the lag kicked us all out. It was a really nice few minutes of what it was like back then.

[@brendanschuett]

This makes me want to play mineplex again, there was a full lobby? On one of the most fun games, too!

[@bananaknox3861]

even tho i never played java, i wish i could go back to the good times

[@abyss1104]

i used to play with my cousin too😭😭😭😭😭

[@matrixyst]

i miss old mineplex so much man, it filled 2013-2017 with an absurd amount of fun for me. from casual stuff like partying with friends and playing things like castle siege, wizards, draw my thing, block hunt, and the arcade games to "hardcore" sweaty gamemodes like clans, ssm, and the champions competitive league, there were so many truly phenomenal moments back then... even in those days i made fun of mineplex for their staff and leadership team that could charitably be described as completely incompetent, but seriously their sheer complacency, arrogance, and mismanagement (i always thought it was funny how they still advertised mineplex as the "largest minecraft server in the world" on the forums even after hypixel took that title) over years and years made such a great thing fade away and die :( every once in a while, when i hop on minecraft to play some games with friends, it makes me unbelievably sad to look at my server list and see mineplex sitting at a few hundred players at best... nothing good can last forever. you really just had to be there o7

[@BombShot]

I still really miss the Turf Wars game. It was always so simple and fun. Build bases, shoot turf, shoot players, earn territory. It's sad to see that when they killed that mode and my love for the server they seemed to kill everyone else's too

[@Zepravity]

turf is still on the server. games barely start anymore, but it's still there and playable if you can find 7 other people for it

[@nymeric5833]

@enriqueamaya3883 omg shut up

[@TreblePhoenix]

Not me reading "Turf Wars" and immediately thinking of Splatoon.

[@Jt-nu5ul]

Man. He called it 4 months early. Rest In Peace. So many memories from siege, smash mobs, block hunt, paintball, and many more

[@mcbyt]

I'm Hunger Games saluting Mineplex right now

[@shiv7978]

Sob

[@ForevrrFury]

I've been playing PE/Bedrock Mineplex since the week it released. I have fond memories of the server and still play it but it feels like since 2019 there's been a huge neglect of the community and being lied to over and over about updates that are coming "soon". We got a grand total of 1 content update in 2022 and it was just some new maps for a few games. You know a server is going bad when a player (me) has tracked and updated the player stats that are available in Google Sheets for the past 3 years because Mineplex removed the perfectly functional in game stats system for no reason in 2017. Really don't know how much longer it has. I feel like I'm yelling at a wall when I try and voice frustrations to this server.

[@FoxGaal]

they wont even ban blatant boosters or do anything about changing the rules ;-; (even if the people openly admit to doing stuff like this). Hopefully they come out with stats in like a week or so but even after all the waiting for this update It probably wont be enough content to keep everyone interested.

[@LineOfThy]

I was so proud of myself when I completed the trophy hunt on PE Mineplex that I named my reward pet after it

[@SimplyVRMC]

mineplex is such a laggy nostalgia trip

[@plantgang632]

It's really sad. First the hive and now mineplex. It was bound to happen but it really makes me side because I loved mineplex and it was basically what I did when I came home from school. Got home, did homework, go to mineplex, play games and I met a lot of cool people there as well. It's really sad to see.

[@nuages2656]

same:(( it’s really sad it went downhill. I made a lot of good friends and wish we could play like old days

[@shiny2421]

Expect Hypixel too someday. Hytale seems like them realizing "We gotta gtfo now" because Minecraft as a game has fallen apart under Microsoft, and owning a big server isn't sustainable anymore.

[@isaacmkay9792]

I remember playing strictly Mineplex for hours about 7-ish years ago. It’s crazy to see how small the server has become.

[@cleverman383]

@enrique amaya Mineplex isn't Jesus bro

[@skullpixiedust]

I miss playing on this server so much. The survival games (so much better than hypixel’s blitz) holds so many memories for me, and Bridges. So nostalgic. I was so disappointed and confused to see how few people were playing when I started playing minecraft again.

[@what982]

​@enrique amaya shoo

[@YeooJohn]

Ong I remember smoking on survival games duos with my homie when it first came out . We didn’t have to team on FFA anymore 💀

[@Cheese_Lord]

Great video! I remember playing old mineplex so much in 2014, it was such a good server. I had a friend who even bought me a few ranks on the server (just because we played it so much)

[@shneancy220]

great video! the reduction in sfx really makes it much easier to watch :) good job! Personally I'd still cut out a few (mainly some clicks) but at this point it's just a creative difference. Glad you found the right balance!

[@Martian_Productions]

I spent a huge chunk of my childhood and teenage years on this server. The memories I made on mineplex are countless and priceless. There must have been hundreds of late nights with friends on mineplex. We all knew that server like a second home, it was a part of our lives. My generation was the first generation to be raised alongside the internet, and we rarely hung out outside. We didn’t have many opportunities to play outside or ride our bikes around the neighborhood. Outside of school it was a very insular life and it was like this for most of the people I grew up with. For a generation raised indoors, mineplex served as our social hub. It was our own little world that we had to experience. Every night we played was a new adventure filled with laughs, excitement, rage, and joy. Mineplex was so foundational to our lives that we all assumed it would last forever. At one point in time the server was so full that it was actually difficult to get online. We all thought mineplex was far too popular to ever die. I know getting this poetic about a Minecraft server seems silly, but mineplex really meant a lot to me; It meant a lot to all of the people I grew up with.

[@manspider7445]

Well said. Interestingly in the server chart at 3:10, the server Mc-Wars, is a server I used to play on that is also now defunct. The community is still in touch though. But I basically grew up on that server, and the online friends I made were like my siblings at times.

[@Potato-yd3hv]

Nothing was better than seeing CaptainSparklez's Survival Games on Mineplex. RIP to one of the best parts of my childhood.

[@josephdylan2424]

😭💔

[@roguewave5187]

its a shame, i met some nice friends through mineplex, and i played it through some of the darkest times of my childhood-- when castle siege started to lose players, i kinda also stopped playing. now anytime i look at the server, its got 50 people online at all times i'm glad the horrible leaders watched their crappy plans fall to ruin, but i feel so bad for the devs and mods who genuinely put passion and love into this server

[@me4ger855]

Rest in peace Mineplex, thanks for being a huge part of my childhood…

I love watching videos about Mineplex’s history. I’ve been a fan of them since over a decade ago. Before they even had their iconic giant tree and they had 4 games on the server. Bridges was one of my favorites for years and I even became Helper Staff on the server around 2013-2014. Because I Mineplex I made a handful of friends that I’m still close to to this day! Mineplex was amazing back in the day and I wish Hypixel captured the same magic for me. I’m not active on minigame servers anymore like I did when I was a kid. I miss those days. Great video too!

[@KiTheMC]

There used to be a glitch back in the day where if you mash the space bar in spectator mode, the anti-cheat would literally turn off for you in the whole server.

[@Kacper42PL]

WHAT LMAO

[@KiTheMC]

@@Kacper42PL yep those were the days. Back in 2015-2016-ish. Mineplex had the worst anticheat of any major server by far. You could fly anywhere you wanted and basically be unhittable with the 6 block multiaura.

[@vessel__]

A lot of good memories were had on that server. It will always hold a special place, regardless of the flaws.

[@heremyjunt]

I loved this server back in 2015, so sad to see it die. Especially because it was avoidable; the mods just refused to listen to the players and didn't change with the times. Still have many happy memories of playing bridges, champions and castle siege...

[@landon7759]

Aged like fine wine. I was a Sr. Moderator from ‘14 to ‘16. I left roughly right after it’s peak. Looking back you pretty much nailed major points. They lacked creativity, vision, and could not create a good anti cheat plugin. However, from a former staff perspective the Ownership was pitiful when Chiss left. There was such a disconnect and because of that nothing major could get done since they mainly had access to the server files. No new content? You’ll lose players. And as you said Hypixel absolutely perfected every game mode for the most part. Sad to see it go down, definitely had some fun memories on it

[@oliverandtoadfan89]

As someone who used to play on Mineplex when it peaked, It's so sad to see what was once one of my favourite servers turn into a shell of its former self.

[@Bushswen]

indeed

[@JacksonMarczyk]

I am honored to have my 'Most Popular Minecraft Servers, 2022 Edition' be used in this video! Aside from that, fantastic analysis! You got to all the important topic points while at the same time, keeping it short. Great video!

[@jasonbraun127]

A really sad part about growing up for me was seeing so many of my favorite Minecraft servers slowly die and disappear. It's such a weird feeling because these are obviously not real locations but I still made so many great memories in these places and I will always remember them fondly. I'm glad that their legacy is carried on though, by other servers like MCC Island that have a ton of love poured into them.

[@HenryZhoupokemon]

Some of my greatest Minecraft memories w friends were on mineplex, whether it was me throwing away my iron sword to craft a diamond shovel for the memes in survival games, or getting absolutely griefed only to spectate my opponent and see him literally flying

[@priestshrek3738]

5:35 Hypixel actually had a bedrock server for a brief time. It was only available to I believe Windows and Mobile because they allow you to add custom servers. It stuck around for I believe a few months until it closed up. I played it on mobile for a while there.

[@ThreeTreee]

I played on it. It was pretty barebones but had the essential gamemodes like build battle and Skywars

[@06NinjaKid06]

@@ThreeTreee only reason i want hypixel on pe is so i can play bedwars on-the-go. (seriously why isn't there a single server with bedwars!?)

[@06NinjaKid06]

@enrique amaya what are you talking about this is a minecraft video not a religious one

[@HuskyCharmanderz]

Mineplex was my main haunt back in the day. I had made a good few friends on there, spent many long nights howling over Sheep Quest and failing spectacularly at Survival Games. I was a Master at Wizards. It wasn't their most popular mini game at all, but it had a small community and it was so interesting. A custom texture pack that made the spells look so awesome; at least 12 different spells, each with custom game effects and animations; great maps that never got old; strategies you'd form and execute and adapt. Wizards eventually needed to be worked on to play on a game update and it was never fixed. Eventually it was removed from the server. Then Sheep Quest lobbies were so small you could never get a game going. Then Sheep Quest was removed. I happened to want to go check out Mineplex the other day out of nostalgia and learned that it had died. It's sad to think about. It was such a big part of my life for so long and now it's just gone. Crazy how time works!

[@toastyanivia9044]

It is kind of sad to see a server I used to spend so much time on reduced to a husk of it's former glory. I loved playing many of their mini-games (Death tag, Dragon Escape, SSM, and Hide and Seek were my go to games) and I spent I would say at least 200 hours just messing about on the server and having fun during the 2014 through 2016 before moving onto factions and pixelmon servers as my go to. Unfortunately all these big servers that had a downfall from grace just always seem to fall due to drama and lack of communication between higher ups and their player base/hands on staff members. Same thing happened with Lachlan's/Little Lizard and Tiny Turtle's pixelmon server of Pixeltown and Lachlan's faction's server also just kind of fell off a cliff after he forgot about it (also factions servers at the time seemed to have a bad habit of promoting P2W to an unhealth degree when a lot of the playerbase are kids who don't have a job yet...).

[@jayjayfex]

Towards the end of Mineplex’s relevance in Console edition, I used to be among the top 7-8 in the Skywars solo leaderboard. I was even talking to the #2 player on a semi regular basis. I was fortunate enough to run into a newly added moderator in a lobby and started to keep contact with him through Xbox chat. I would help report the tons of blatant hackers in my games. He would appear in my matches invisibly, spectate, then ban. This went on for a while until one day my moderator contact broke the news to me that he was removed as a mod. One of the other mods was cracking an idle joke in the Staff chat apparently and was reprimanded for It. When my contact got involved and kinda stood up for them, he was demoted along with everyone else who was in the boat. Turns out there was a change of management and they were eager to flush out the old staff, willing to use any excuse they can get their hands on. :/

[@burntpato9760]

Before I watch the video. I will comment this: back when I played Minecraft, Mineplex was my favourite server. I particularly loved Dragons, so it was a massive shame for me when it was taken out of the free, public Mineplex server along with dozens of other games which I'm sure people loved. That particularly made me lose my taste for the server and I stopped playing it as much and moved to Hypixel which had better games, better moderation and less cheaters. I also loved Turf Wars and Survival Games, and that kept me coming back to Mineplex, but I slowly watched as cheaters took over these games with no anticheat in sight and a small, overworked moderation team. The cheaters, in the end, completely ruined Mineplex to me. As aforementioned, Hypixel had a working anticheat, so cheaters were barely an issue which made it so much easier and better to play. The removal of my favourite games and the influx of cheaters is what ruined Mineplex for me.

[@DeltaFroggz]

I met my boyfriend on Mineplex years ago, it was the gamemode Death Tag. There was a spot where you could hide in a tree by completing a 4 block jump off a roof. When i finally made the jump, He was sitting there crouched. I joined him in the spot, and we won the game. We decided to keep playing together after that, staying on Mineplex and playing mini games for hours after school this was around 2015. We played everything on Mineplex, and then went on to play on other servers. From Survival Games to Factions to Pixelmon. We kept communication, even found out we lived on opposite sides on the country lol. But that didnt stop us. We kept playing video games together throughout the years into adulthood, where we finally decided to make our relationship official. It will be 3 years in April, and we plan on moving in together soon. So even though there is some controversy around Mineplex, I have to thank them, for allowing me to find my soulmate.

[@TempusWasTaken]

Super Smash Mobs was a really fun game which I played from time to time right up to early this year. A long time ago, it was an innocent and fun experience, and when I re-entered it in 2020 and started playing to get better, I did, and I got quite a bit better at the game. However, during the course of 2021, Mineplex was noticeably dropping off in active players, going from what I remember as about 2000 at the beginning of 2021 to about 300-500 at the beginning of 2022. The impact of this on SSM, already quite a small game, was large. Instead of being able to play pretty much any time of day, I needed to specifically go on when during the active hours (usually a problem because those were usually late at night, being that Mineplex was primarily played by Americans and I live in Britain). But even then, I could get by. The biggest bane to me in SSM was block-glitching (where you get glitched into a block either as the result of an enemy hitting you into one via some strong knockback or where your ability launches you at an angle and you cross into a block). A bug that has costed me many games. I wish that this gamemode would become more popular again, and get fixed. It's a really good concept that doesn't really have competition in other servers (at least, no good competition) and there are still some regulars, last I checked. I hope they're doing okay.

[@matrixyst]

i loved ssm! it scratched that competitive itch like very few games do for me these days, i was a filthy creeper main occasionally hitting sick airshots in pubs haha

[@TempusWasTaken]

@@matrixyst I started to get quite good with more aggro kits like Wither Skeleton, and I also started trying to do a melee chicken like Pugz (very good chicken, one of only a few who focused melee instead of ability spam). But Creeper has been a long time favourite of mine as well.

[@_TheDoctor]

I have fond memories of grinding away at Super Smash Mobs with my old best friend from elementary school. We mained the skeleton, as it was arguably the best class to play if you mastered it, able to handle basically anything thrown at it. The lobby was also one of my favorites. I'm now working my life away at the age of 22. Sad to see it come to this.

[@staycgirlsitsgoingdown2]

A similar one is minecraft party network, or MCPZ. It used to be massively popular around 2016, it’s creative server constantly had 300+ people on it and the murder mystery one was popular too. And nowadays, it isn’t even useable because after years of mismanagement and broken code, every single game dosnt work and the only thing that works is the lobby and never has a single person online. There’s still a small community trying to get it back up but it’s pretty much dead. It’s so sad to see it gone because i literally spent thousands of hours on it as a kid , back when it as full of life and made so many friends on there and it’s sad to see it ending up as an empty shell

[@1Staubsauger]

This is not Mineplex related, but I've been playing for a very long time on HiveMC (Java Edition) till the day it got shut down. Wondering if you planned on making a video about it, too.

[@KingBelenus]

I'm still partly mad they shut down their Java server, it was my favourite server to play on, especially after CubeCraft got rid of their hide and seek

[@pandozmc]

Wait what, hive doesn't exist anymore?

[@1Staubsauger]

@@pandozmc On Java Edition they shut down but with a decent amount of players.. there were like around thousands of players around that time. The Bedrock version of Hive is made with a new owner and new staffs, it's just the name "Hive" but a totally different experience..

[@anomaloplane]

3:00 McWars was an era. I used to play on the server so much; was sad to see it die a few years ago.

[@risensentinel3916]

Indeed a sad day for mcwars players

[@winglessdraco4865]

I remember leaving mineplex once castle seige stopped getting enough players to form games anymore. It was a sad sad day.

[@JBBrickman]

Same for me but with mine-strike

[@theprinceofdarkness3250]

My most fond Mineplex memory is playing football with that slime in the lobby.

[@oknice8117]

You should do a video on shotbot's decline, I don't see anyone talk about it anymore and it had some pretty unique games compared to its competition

[@fitmotheyap]

Hm? I think they literally just died and are now alive again, I remember playing a bit over a year ago

[@Sephiths]

Rip Mc-Wars. I joined that community in 2013, when I was 13. And I'm still mingle in it today at the age of 22. Crazy. It was a major part of my childhood!

[@Jojo-ep4je]

I am so proud of germany for gommehd. We normally never get mentioned even though a LOT of minecrafts players are german

[@andrewgonyea]

Me and my friends used to play on Mineplex almost every day in middle school-early high school from 2015-2018ish. In 2020 we wanted to play on the server again for old times sake and it was essentially dead, and it’s biggest modes we’re just bad knockoffs of popular Hypixel games like Cake Wars. All of the original games were either gone or the community was too dead to get a game started. Our favorite Mineplex game was “The Bridges” and now you can’t get the people to play it

[@kingowiec1]

mineplex was my favorite server for many years, sad to see it go down :c

[@shanirin]

The fact that Mineplex is dead hurts my soul... i met many friends there and ofcourse lost some as well but i met my best friends there... we are friends for over 9 years now.. you could say that we grew up together and seeing the reason how we found each other die is just... ARGH FRUSTRATING

[@AlpikTaiko]

used to play since the beginning, now when i see the server and how it looks, i'm sad, this server was for me one of the best multiplayer server of Minecraft. :(

[@Water8500]

I got permanently banned from Mineplex one time for doing the obstacle course in the lobby without talking to the villager, and this was well over 5 years ago when it happened. Eventually, I got unbanned at one point and I’m not sure why since they did deny an appeal I made one time. My best guess is that they needed players to rejoin in order to boost their server. Well, I’m not giving that favor for being falsely banned.

[@Qauzzie]

Lol

[@bikkie5209]

grinded mineplex from 2013-2017 good times, hypixel definitely did a better job at managing their server

[@graycantcombo]

43,033 people used to live here, now its a ghost town

[@chocolatepotato5469]

This aged.... well?.....

[@Qouth]

I really dig the use of the Ghostrunner ost near the end of the video

[@mcbyt]

absolutely FIRE game honestly

[@fishh9786]

UPDATE: as of may 16th 2023, mineplex has now shut down

[@AntiGrieferGames]

Yes finally.

[@Tolu1x]

Playing super paintball from 2015-2017 was unmatched. Hopped on to check out the server a few months ago and was met with a dead server with no games filling, crazy

[@arch_imedes7108]

Champions was a phenomenal gamemode, i really miss it and i hope Hypixel makes something similar at some point.

[@0xD15EA5E]

Champions was by a long shot mineplex’s best gamemode. I played the gamemode competitively for several years and I loved the community and the game. From my perspective, one of Mineplex’s biggest pitfalls was never fixing bugs in their games of balancing things that were broken. Champions got maybe a single update every other year and it more often than not just broke more shit

[@bruh-px3uc]

GOD i loved champions so much. I mained dom back around 2014-2016. Ranger was my favorite. Back when it was rare to see people with the achievement abilities like explosive arrow, it was my first pick after school. just loading up a Pin Down + Sharpshooter or Overcharge + Longshot and getting yelled at in chat for bowspamming used to be my entire childhood

[@chifffy]

@@bruh-px3uc heavy arrows pin down....i miss it so much

[@chifffy]

@@bruh-px3uc or the infamous napalm longshot overcharge that killed assassin from full health

[@KipsterMc]

It feels so weird to go onto Mineplex now. What was once a massively populated server that was so fun to play on is now very empty and you can't even play most minigames anymore

[@shadowgmd]

And now its actually dead o7

[@dbleo_]

Old Mineplex was seriously elite. So many great games, and I made so many friends that I have now not seen for years. Great memories, but nothing lasts forever. Same with The Hive

[@AidenLafleur]

On bedrock, its still doing okay (suprisingly), but no server will pass CubeCraft or the Hive... meanwhile on Java, just nah man. There are only 4 good servers on mcbe, cubecraft, the hive, mineplex, and galaxite. The rest are absolute garbage and should be taken down. Hypixel was on Bedrock for a while, but then shut down to focus on Java. It's one of the biggest reasons why Java is still popular, 50% of java ytbers play Bedwars.

[@darthmauve]

the bedrock server is doing ok in terms of player counts but the server itself is a laggy mess, most of the time you wont even be able to get into the games and even if you can they arent really anything special and are just slightly worse versions of gamemodes on other servers, also the party system is really buggy and overall the server isnt very good

[@TrebleT]

Used to be friends with a former admin, but I’ve sadly lost contact with em since.

[@kwad9145]

I remember getting two vaccine shots at once at like age 10 because my dad made a deal with me that if I took the shots, he would buy me the titan rank on hypixel. I took them without hestitation

[@robertmendez8383]

Well they are giving people heart attacks and micarditus

[@kwad9145]

@@robertmendez8383 who is giving people heart attacks lmao

[@robertmendez8383]

@@kwad9145 the jabs

[@robertmendez8383]

Healthy athletes at peak physical condition too

[@2amanon78]

@@robertmendez8383 aint no way you're spreading propaganda on a minecraft youtube video 💀💀

[@StarstrickenBarrel]

I deeply miss this server. Some of the best game modes to ever exist are right here especially bridges. I just wish it still had the same player base or even a fraction of it so I can still play my favorite games. 😢

[@holllopato7361]

The Wafle house has found it's new host

[@happyjohn1656]

0:57 WoodyCraft brings back so many memories 🥹🥹 3:55 AM 12/31/2022

[@jacksonparker2842]

That parkour course "coming soon" in the minigame lobby never finished...

[@KiTheMC]

Mineplex had dogcrap anticheat. You're able to effectively fly wherever you want. 6-block reach multiaura made you basically unhittable. You could dominate every game you wanted and there wasn't proper moderation so it'd take many hours to get banned most of the time.

[@Jakepf]

Damn, I stopped playing Minecraft around when Mineplex was at it's peak, so damn it's sad to see it's been downhill since

[@endermcx3001]

I'm a build member for the Shotbow server that was mentioned at the beginning of the video. After seeing the backend of things, it's so incredibly easy to let the drama and in fighting of both the staff and the community to tank a server and cause it to die. While Shotbow hasn't been doing amazing, we've somehow maintained a level of stability thanks to some great community members. I hope we never become like Mineplex.

[@arcticavenger269]

the downfall is sad, i remember playing that bridge wars game so much i could be called an addict of that game, sad to see that server go

[@jakeraines8046]

I think the thing that killed it for me was a few years ago when my sister got banned for cheating. She never cheats. I sent in an appeal asking what specific thing she did to get her banned and I didn't hear back from them for a MONTH. When they did get back to me they said she was wrongfully banned and she was now unbanned. I asked why she was banned in the first place and still haven't heard back to this day. Needless to say doing that month she was banned we didn't play and by the time she got unbanned she had moved on to other servers.

[@Styrofoam-ee]

I remember Mineplex vividly and it was a big part of my childhood I never fully understood why it slowly dwindled but I amounted it to the sad reality that people just grew up and slowly stopped playing I've hopped on once in 2022 and played the game I played last time in 2016 which was the Wool Wars I remember how much fun I had with that game making new friends (and enemies) it's still semi-playable but ruined by hackers I think Mineplex and it's owners were far more interested in monetary gain than the entertainment of the player which created a toxic environment where moderators and helpers were doing their best to keep games afloat but could so little with higher-ups forcing their hands to just accept the issues. With the realization of Microsoft also taking over Mojang Studios and the upcoming changes to the EULA of removing pay to win made business harder and thus more toxic, higher-ups were less concerned with the bugs than the potential monetary gain that's the difference with Hypixel, Mineplex was always a business to make money and nothing but money, Hypixel is a user-entertainment-orientated business always focusing on the enjoyment of the player to keep players coming back and happy where paying is optional for cool cosmetics. The difference is paramount. Hypixel sees players, Mineplex sees dollars.

[@exquisitefrequencies3835]

having the 2013 pumpkin king morph feels like a relic

[@mcmadness110]

I am sad that most of the servers I used to play on are dead. There are also some game modes that have ceased to exist and were never replicated.

[@mcmadness110]

I remember dwarves vs zombies on the old mindcrack fan server and missile defence. As well as playing on jerry and harry and sky does minecraft server. Don’t forget the hive. I also used to play on mineplex. There was also minecraft quake and trouble in terror town and block hide and seek.

[@Razzor012YT]

Mineplex used to be the best server ive gone on since 2013, too bad it didnt survive till 2023 :(

[@astarman-hv7cn]

I played only block hunt on mineplex during 13-15 i still remember when it was 2 maps and when you could shoot the seekers before they could get on the island. Really was the best of fun

[@dask5687]

I'll never forget Domination. My entire childhood.

[@benhicksbass]

Castle Siege, Bridges, Champions CTF/Domination, Turf Wars, Super Paintball, Super Smash Mobs, Micro Battles, Hide and Seek, Block Hunt, Draw My Thing, Master Builders, Minestrike. Man there were just so many amazing game modes back in the day, and I watched the server just go down in the toilet. Super depressing, but from what I've heard, the server just refused to listen to the community and that tends to cause people to stop playing.

[@ItzMrVinzzzHD]

This is so nostalgic for me lol I was a builder for Mineplex - seeing some of my maps in this video

[@jacksonbarkerthebluehairedfox]

Man, I remember Castle Siege! I loved that game mode so much and I just wish I could play it again.

[@hughburda4490]

You can tell the staff doesn’t care when the Valentines theme lobby is still around after St. Patrick’s day

[@UltrasoundingOfficial]

I used to play turf wars all day when I was like 7, that old halloween event where the giants would break houses and there was an announcer that would say what mobs were attacking next, everyone would desperately try to get a safe area where the zombies, skeletons, and spiders couldn't get you and just prey that a giant wouldn't destroy it

[@bungercolumbus]

There was a wizard wand game on mineplex which I really enjoyed but now I can't play it anymore :(

[@TheCrazedJ]

I remember when I first started playing on servers, and Mineplex was my first one. I remember spending HOURS at a time playing minigames and making new friends. I fell out of minecraft for a while, and about a few months ago I logged in for the first time in years. I'm not gonna lie, it hurt a bit to see my favorite childhood hangout this way. I'll miss ya Mineplex.

[@lordchipo]

I will always miss playing Bridges with my friends constantly over the summers we had in school

[@reloadtoad]

Nothing will ever compare to Micro battles, super smash mobs, and Christmas Chaos

[@HoustonMediaHD]

Their KZbin channel is dead too. Based on data, February 2020, they had around 208k subs. Fast forward to today. 192k subs.

[@OnurTheXbot]

Mineplex used to be my (and other peoples) favourite server. But then they stopped making Quality Games. Then Hypixel stole their audience and playerbase because they were making new gamemodes like Skywars and Bedwars.

[@Otakuey]

I was considered one of the small youtubers on Mineplex's Minestrike (before CS was free) for quite a while. The EU servers never have a full lobby and the US often only have 1. It used to be the most popular game on there and imo still is more satisfying than Hypixel's counterpart game. I also played Turf Wars quite a bit but Minestrike got more views for obvious reasons. Minestrike died a dogs death. Communication and arrogance being what killed it off. Issues such as ghosting, abuse of the mechanics and nade exploits brought it down from its height as people realised that the people at the top did not care. No issues brought up in the community were fixed, skins being the only update that mattered to them. The issues that plagued the server overall made them lose the community at large, and the game specific problems spat in the face of those who were die-hard fans of these games. Like you said, bugs were a particular problem, but the absolute lack of sincerity towards the users playing the games in the first place made me (and many others) simply quit. It's sad when I look at the time since last activity on those friends I made on both games. I wish I could say it was fun while it lasted, but Mineplex was a draining experience. I don't even think there will be anything quite like the buggy but very particular feeling games on Mineplex again. It was quite a unique experience that created memories even if my old computer could only record it all at 30fps haha

[@은지-u3c2o]

I miss The Hive so much. I would play for HOURS on end with friends, it was amazing. 2015 was the year of Minecraft, and after 2017, it slowly dropped off :(. No server compares to the old ones, and are never really occupied anymore. The game just isnt all that fun nowadays

[@shopnil4]

I remember playing Mineplex a lot a long time ago. I still come on every now and then just to take a peek at the status of the server. I remember asking my dad to get me a rank when it was on sale lol

[@cgjake]

the thing with the bedrock server is when you try to join pretty much any game you get glitched in the sky and your screen basically tries to give you a seizure. I emailed them about it about a week ago and they still havent gotten back to me. Also about 25% of the time my friend and i join sky wars theres some guy with a client that allows him to teleport to us and hit us off our island. they USED to have an anti cheat system that would auto-ban hackers but they got rid of that for some reason. i think the way they could fix this is by hiring new staff and server maintenance workers to fix the bugs and ban the hackers

[@bbg4566]

Before I switched to Java I used to play bedrock mineplex as hypixel didn’t have a PlayStation server, the mineplex servers are so incredibly laggy and I found so many others saying that, the server barely runs at best and is filled with so many purchases it feels like a mobile game. Another thing that ticked me the wrong way was how if you searched for lag online or tried to ask mineplex about the lag they would insist that it was not their servers issue but your connection, despite everybody seeming to have the same issue.

[@l0rd_grim340]

Yeh Mineplex bridges was fun few years back. This was good I was wondering what happened to the Srw. Also nice Survival spawn at 5:38

[@iamasink]

I just wanna say thank you for adding subtitles :)

[@mcbyt]

of course, always :)