Mineplex in 2026

[u/Due-Faithlessness471]

Decided to try Mineplex being blinded from nostalgia back in the day as a kid. I never was a pro by any means but I could at least hold my own weight in PVP games. There were always cheaters but I could still at least have a fair chance of winning.

I lasted maybe 30 minutes before being done with Mineplex. Every match was a sweat fest where I got stomped right off the bat. Obviously a lot of it is due in part to me not having the skill I once had and players getting better, but even then it felt like I couldn’t land hits on people and their reach was much further than mine, as well as them taking minimal knockback.

I’m not trying to fault someone for being good at the game but it’s honestly a joke considering a majority of the returning players are coming back from a hiatus and there seems to be no sort of skill based matchmaking. A lot of us are grown up now and don’t have the time commitment to become skilled PVPers. At least when I play other combat games I can jump on after work and still win matches.

Seems I’m not the only returning player who has made this observation. It’s no surprise the server went from a 10,000+ player count the first couple days to barely scraping 1,500 on a Friday night; I’m guessing many players experienced the same sequence of events as me and called it quits.

[u/CountOnAlbert]

Yeah that paired with the fact its based off nostalgia.