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Minecraft Servers: What went wrong?
We all know minecraft is a great game; that is why we play it. But we also know that servers have lacked quality and originality recently... It leaves us to wonder, why? Where has the great minecraft community gone? Can we fix this?
I believe that I can answer these questions; they are major issues we face today and now with our game.
The first problem we encounter is simple: Money.
Now, by money I do not mean player donation to server, that has existed in computer games forever. At least ones that have player hosted servers. The problem is server to the Big Bad Wolf: Hosting Companies. There are always huge fights about "Which company is the best." But in reality, they are the end of all minecraft servers. Servers needing to pay to simply exist is such a huge problem, unless you are a very skilled minecraft such like Block_Fortress, or Hypixel, or any of those near-deity characters of minecraft, you will not be able to start a server on your own. There are many people I know of who could create excellent, original servers if hosting a server was available. It cuts out much of the skill available in the minecraft community.
The second problem would be these massive servers with literally thousands of slots.
These servers, like Hungergames, and Hub Servers, etc, all make it harder for a small and original server to get noticed. Every player wants to play these servers, and they are everywhere. Hunger Games servers are literally like the most popular server ever, and everyone attempts to make one. But it will not do. Everyone forgets about the original idea, the actual good server, and so we start to get a monopoly of Servers.
The third problem would be the players: Where do they go?
Players have always been attracted to fun servers and good communities, but now they all go to Hunger Games or other such large servers. As I said before, servers are starting to monopolize. Not as many new minecrafters are seen today as there were a few years ago (Yes I played then) when minecraft was still in Alpha. Everyone was new then and exploring. There was an equal distribution of players among servers. But now, I could have 10 servers in my serverlist with over 1000 players each. These players just stay on these servers, never exploring, killing noobs, etc.
This is why Minecraft Servers are doomed. No one can escape this monopoly. Everyone has to play the server with the most players, with all the big youtubers and such. No one cares about staying on a small server with friends anymore. I do not believe that this is fixable. I hope someone, some day, can figure out how to redistribute players, and hopefully Mojang makes Server hosting easier.
--Fin--
On a completely different note:
Also, be sure to check out my friend Chetcat. Amazing Blogger, and one of my Admins on my future server! Great guy!
Credit | Thank you to Nova Skins.com for the image that I used, and thank you to to Minecraft Evenings, the font I used in the image. |
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I hope Chetcat and you make one of those very friendly-community servers!
I think you guys have that covered.