I KNOW THE REASONS!

AS MANY OF YOU HAVE INDEED REALIZED,
Its Jerry And Harry is losing players like crazy. Either Minecraft is getting thrown down the drain or there is something else going on here. I decided to dig into this conduct, and after a few months I have studied the behavior of the players on the server.​

What Players Don't Like:
*Hackers (Duh)
*New Players
*Roleplays (Creative 1/2/3)
*Non-Ranked Players (Vise-Versa)
*"Lame" People?
*People Accusing Others Inccorectly​

What Players Do Like:
*The Mini-Games
*The Buildings
*The Staff
*People That Defend Other People
*The Forums (For the most part)​

No Category/Unknown Basis:
*Rude
*Blunt
*Use inappropriate language
*Make fun of younger players
*Possibly hacker?
*etc. (Unrecorded or Undocumented)

Looking at this list, you might be like "Oh yeah, that's obviously true."
BUT LOOK.
It's not as simple as it seems.
This server is losing people by the second because of the people. They are genuinely rude and don't know how to control themselves.
(Read My GD Topic On Bullying)
I have actually felt threatened by the community recently because it's like if you want to say something, it's instant lashback (its not a word, but what I mean is; they just say something back quickly without thinking about you, kind of like a sociopath I guess.) to the other players.
I don't know if they should put stricter rules in place,
but I am saying that this community is not welcoming in general,
(and of course I am not talking about everyone, but about 75% of the community)
and cannot understand that people come to play and have fun,
not to get made fun of because of their buildings, skin, name, or anything.

If you agree, we should reach out to higher staff about this because it is bad now.
I have already talked about this, but now it is scary and uncomfortable to play on this server.

I still will always love this server, but the people are just becoming (mind my language) assholes.

Sincerly, a member of three years;
-Expedect​

 

The abundance of criticism staff tend to get disagrees with this



Anyway, I don't think the people here are that rude; Minecraft is just becoming less popular in general, being an almost 7 year old game. The original players are growing up and newer gamers are more interested in newer shinier games. That's what I think anyway, it doesn't have anything to do with our community. Again this is all my opinion anyway, idk how accurate any of it could be, I am just an optimist with stuff in general

 

Yeah I see where you are coming from 100%. However I see the players socializing with the staff in away so nicely, but maybe only you get the criticism or you have witnessed it? I don't know but it is what I have seen.

 

Usually our criticism comes from rule breakers that dislike it when we do our jobs, but I can speak for the staff team when I say we sincerely appreciate any and all compliments we get, no matter how small

 

Actually, I see that a lot. I personally love the staff and I want to become part of it. From what I have seen the staff has been incredibly nice to other players, but it seems they take advantage of it. I just feel like it's one of those things when someone is bothering someone (this is an example) and they continuously answer nicely, but overtime it builds up and as soon as ANY staff member lets anything loose its like the end of the world happened. I hope you get it.

 

It's not only the players fault that the server is dying, It's the amount of new mini-games put towards the server that is lacking.
We're so fixated on getting new parkours out, or new spawns out and not actually looking at what players want. We, as a server, as players, have been wanting mini-games that didn't involve pvp. We wanted new games that we could enjoy playing all the time, and not get so mad at.

The amount of suggestions accepted, that were made by normal players, have lacked so much. If the server was able to be advertised as much as it's not, we'd be booming with players.
Players like a server who has A LOT to do, and not just a few mini-games, some that are the same and some that aren't "Unique"
Yeah, they just added Skywars, a lot of people wanted it.. well, that died out quick didn't it. It's almost as bad as how UHC was. A new pvp game everyone wanted, but no one played. I'm not saying Skywars isn't being played, but it's not being played as much as what people wanted.

I think adding a bunch of non-pvp based minigames on the server would make it a lot better.

Lets take Hive for example, and Mineplex.. Even Hypixel. They have a greatly balanced amount of pvp based minigames and non-pvp based. Their community isn't the same, which we have a better community then they do. The community doesn't make up the server, it makes up more then the games should, but people look at the games more then the people.

Now, with the whole welcoming part. Yeah, we aren't as welcoming as we were back in the day.
New players would join, we'd be all over them, welcoming them, wanting to play with them, get to know them. At that point, we invited them to join the forums, and they became a long life member of our community.
Now, it's like we don't even recognise those who don't have a rank.
Ranks shouldn't matter when someone first joins the server, and I've noticed this a lot.

New Player: "Hey, I'm new to this server"
Old Players (3 years): "Welcome to the server!"

and then I've seen,

New Player: "Hey, I'm new to this server"
Older Player: " This server is shit"

Then that drives the new player away.

We judge upon players who are new, don't have a rank, aren't good in pvp, not good at building.. But we never see where their heart may lie or how they are as a person.

"Do not Judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you Judge others, you will be Judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" Matthews 7:1-2

Another quote I found, that I find really inspirational.

"Your job isn't to judge. Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting" - Joel Osteen

If people just stop judging, and actually helped out, and enjoyed the little things, welcomed people and not just care about themselves and close their group to a selected few. Nothing new will happen, everything will stay the same, as if you are living your life on a repeated disk. Playing it through, putting it on loop, and just play it over and over.

 

Yeah, that makes sense. It's just really sad to see society end up like this.