why did cubecraft java die?

[timid yarrow]

cubecraft java has gone down from 10k average players to 800-1000

[fiery river]

cc updates

[kindred girder]

java hasnt had 10k players in years

[robust pasture]

Games keep getting removed, and there's that one super popular server that does everything cc does and sometimes does it better

[ancient venture]

more people play bedrock nowadays, and hypixel is seen by many to be the best Java Server.

[tawny parrot]

The 1k level is relatively high compared to ~250 that we saw 2022-2023

[cloud shadow]

Its just the game itself. Minecraft is not as popular as it used to be as a whole, many big servers we used to play on are already closed on java

Games getting removed increased the player count actually

Less games, more players per game, faster queue times

[kindred girder]

iirc the server player count dropped, only game player counts slightly went up

[tawny parrot]

With the increasing player counts it seems natural to bring back tower defense... right?

[ashen lion]

Not even close to being correct. You’d be in a much better position on Java if you actually listened to your community instead of doing whatever and wondering why everyone left.

[kindred girder]

like closing java and focusing on becoming the #1 bedrock server again

[lofty rune]

true

[frosty sable]

combat

[vague valve]

Tbh I don’t see how cubecraft can overtake hive

[kindred girder]

start by hiring an anticheat dev, then start doing in server polls instead of making decisions for them (such as blockwars 10v10 or eggwars season changes)

[sly stag]

Do you have any exact numbers? This doesn't seem to be the case

Maybe more players have joined first since, but I wouldn't say 400-1000 would be an increase

[sly stag]

Wait, they're not anymore?

[kindred girder]

theyre behind by around 2k players

[strange cliff]

keeping an anticheat dev is too hard apparently

[wicked timber]

Who said

[wicked timber]

Hypixel has 25k daily

10k min

[wicked timber]

I think u defending cubecraft

[vague valve]

I mean they are in the cubecraft team so of course they would

It is true that Minecraft is not as popular as before but that can’t be the reason why cubecraft went from one of the largest server on Java to a server with 1k player count

[kindred girder]

i think theres an unspoken rule where staff cant say anything bad about the server

i also think it partially applies to partners

[cloud shadow]

that rule does not exist, but it is a matter of how you do it. Saying you dislike something is always alright, but just hating on something is not.

[cloud shadow]

Yeah because it is true. Other big servers like the hive and mineplex already had to shut down their java minecraft server, hypixel is not a fair server to compare us to, as they are java only and we run both platforms

[vague valve]

i mean it is true that minecraft play count is dropping but that should not be a main excuse for cubecraft to go from one of the most popular server to a server with 1k player count

[wicked timber]

But even bedrock combined is not the amount of players hypixel has

[unique timber]

hypixel and cubecraft in 2016 had very similar player counts

and bedrock didn't exist until 2018

why did hypixel thrive and cubecraft fall.... hmmmm i wonder why

[strange cliff]

it's because the eggwars trend died on YouTube

it was no longer the big thing

[kindred girder]

wasnt it something with the staff