For real here people, a very large majority of Mineplex's problems are easy to fix. The reason why most people are quitting, the player count dropping even though Hypixel only going up? The anti-cheat. Everybody is aware of it, and some progress is being made but not quickly enough. Most players can find the main games (SG/HG , SSM and Smash Heroes, Bridges and Crazy Walls, Skywars) on both servers, but one has less hackers. This is where the very significant player drop is coming from, but players keep blaming it on other things, such as drama (nobody stops playing because of a stupid decision because gameplay stays the same), the community (atrocious on both servers), bad forums (tons quit the forums and continue in game) or lack of games and updates (mildly annoying but both servers don't have game updates very often). Most of these problems have very little effect on the quality of gameplay, but not the anti-cheat. The anti-cheat is what lets you play and hackers get banned, and Mineplex's has a significant problem. It fails entirely in banning hackers and gets innocent players more often. However, Hypixel's Watchdogs system works almost perfectly and bans hacker temporarily in game, so that they can't completely ruin the experience. A single hacker in a game makes that entire round almost pointless, and they normally don't get banned for multiple games. Now, people really only started caring about the anti-cheat as of recently, and it happened to start when the reports delay began. Now, even getting a hacker banned takes upwards of a month. Progression is happening slowly, but soon it will be back at a good amount and hopefully faster than before. The only reason the reports delay isn't being fixed sooner is because of false reports, which I have a possible idea for a fix for. Once Mineplex gets all of this together, then they should prioritize a massive update. Make about 10 games, release 5 at a speed of about one every 4 weeks, and then release 5 more or so along with a ton of other features, like a cosmetic overhaul, tons of game balancing, and maybe even another rank, and then spend as much money as possible publicizing this. Get ads on Minecraft server websites, an do as much as you can. After that, hopefully that will be able to recover your player count, and then you can finally go back to fixing the other stuff.
Notice the last section may not work, but the main idea of the last part is once the hacker problem is fixed add a lot and publicize it.
TL;DR Hackers is the problem with Mineplex's problems, get a better anti-cheat, and the reports delay is fuelling the hacker problem, so once that all gets fixed, make a giant update and publicize it to get the player count back.
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Kinda not playing mineplex for a while. Still going to stay involved with the community and LootSwoop, just going on the forums less and in game way less. Few reasons. First of all, the forums have gone way downhill recently, but I still like reporting. Also, I'm finding most of the in game games boring now, and none have been added for a bit. Lastly, I've found a few other good games and server like HendrixMC and Town Of Salem. Not going to stop playing for long, probably anywhere between 2 weeks and 2 months.
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