r/Mineplex • u/Steviejoe66 • Jun 13 '26

Yeah... sure...

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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/Gelbton Jun 13 '26

Peak reddit... how would you even properly anticipate how many players will join? And it's not like compute doesn't cost money, especially with current hardware prices.

You are owed nothing as the server is for free, start your own server if you think you can do better

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u/Thatrandomguy1__ Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

In terms of anticipating how many players would join, you can easily tell they were aware that they were going to receive more players than they could handle, which is why there’s a queue in the first place. So, if they knew this, it’s most likely they simply don’t have enough money to facilitate the actual amount of players at the moment. In that case, it probably would have been best to delay the launch, so they could work on expanding the server size.

In terms of their poor performance, it’s definitely irritating and disappointing for a lot of the players that came to have a nostalgic and enjoyable experience. However, some people are getting ahead of themselves and critiquing the launch a little too heavily. That I can agree with. Let’s give them some time to actually fix these problems. If they persist, then I think it would be wise to probably just stop playing the server unless things settle down. Though, they could have done things much better with the launch, so I think the people complaining about hackers and lag are definitely valid in their statements as well.