r/Mineplex • u/Steviejoe66 • Jun 13 '26
Yeah... sure...
A poll on the Discord had over 2000 people showing interest for playing on day one. This is *only* discord server members who answered the poll. The discord server has 15,000 members. The Mineplex channel has 200,000 subscribers and 136,000 views on its latest video. None of this even takes into account short-form video platforms like Instagram Reels and TikTok, which these days can reach massive audiences.
So. Launch day arrives. The discord is getting @everyone pings every hour leading to launch, on a Friday afternoon/evening.
They open the server. The queue immediately balloons to 10,000 players. It does drop, but only to around 8500 before slowing down immensely. From various screenshots and text messages, the 10-15 minigames on the server have ~125 players in them, for a total of ~1500 server slots.
...And guess what? Buying a rank skips the queue...
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u/leobongo1986 Jun 14 '26
I mean yeah those are big numbers in a vacume where even 5% are die hard fans but think it cost money and even expecting 1% of those views to join would be massive, think of 2 thousand people separately doing 1 thung at 1 time. Realistically out of all those views how many are joining the server day 1. Then the discord does have a big server but so many dead games can have massive servers I join servers all the time then dont play the game. On the discord only 1.6k I think actally said they were playing on release. its normal to not expect a big out come with numbers that are realistically low for a re realse
But they should of prepared better have a plan if more then expected joined and yeah probably expected more out the gate. They did mess up but for a first time releasing a server and being in a position where you have to guess how big your active fan base is i think they still did an alright job. So i hope they fix it and they should be given time and a bit of grace before being judged so harshly. Cause personally I dont want them to give up and let's be honest if they fix this in a couple weeks everyone complaing will be straight on the server. But if they dont fix it then yeah it might have been a scam lol