Lets do a check-in on our new Gamemode

Dear MCGamer:
If you'd like to implement new gamemodes while still primarily focusing on your original gametype and seeming professional - don't add that many gamemodes.
Quality over quantity, as many say. Instead of spitting out new, buggy gamemodes, it's probably better to test them and give them some sort of attention before putting them on the network. I understand that the developers may have more important matters to attend to, but it doesn't mean that a little fixing up shouldn't take place.

4non said:

Dear MCGamer:
If you'd like to implement new gamemodes while still primarily focusing on your original gametype and seeming professional - don't add that many gamemodes.
Quality over quantity, as many say. Instead of spitting out new, buggy gamemodes, it's probably better to test them and give them some sort of attention before putting them on the network. I understand that the developers may have more important matters to attend to, but it doesn't mean that a little fixing up shouldn't take place.

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They did, they released beta versions of UHC.

~Vanth

Vanth said:

They did, they released beta versions of UHC.

~Vanth

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I don't really know anything about UHC, but I'm mainly referring to the other gamemodes.

This server, in many people's eyes, is considered THE place to go if you want to play Minecraft Survival Games. When someone get's sick of it, there are tons of other servers to play on that offer more unique and creative gamemodes.
I also don't like the approach that McGamer is taking. I really feel that they should have, instead of constantly trying to expand and add new gamemodes, focus almost entirely on survival games. It's what everyone plays and nobody is really asking for anything else (I see requests for future gamemodes but they always end up empty). If you take away every gamemode except Survival Games, barely any people would be upset about it, simply because THEY DON'T CARE about anything else. Or at least they should only keep the top 3 or top 5 (maximum) most played other gamemodes and get rid of the rest. This has consistently been an issue for McGamer and removing it all together would be so beneficial.

I think Minecraft servers should exist to fulfill their own niches. There's a reason why there is no single server with EVERYTHING on it. Different servers appeal to different people and specialize in different things. The approach of "satisfying everyone" is severely backfiring. It's like if someone wants to become a heart surgeon, architect, university professor, author and chef at the same time. It's just not possible. And I understand that there are many other servers that have multiple minigames, but the reason why they're more successful elsewhere is because:
the multiple games are less segregated (they play one after the other)
they don't have a single major, dominant gamemode
they have a major gamemode but to a lesser extent (it was not originally entirely based on it)
their games are flat-out better

The problem is, it's a spiraling downfall. If a Youtuber doesn't play the game when every other player on the server is trying it out, it will stop getting people.

When it stops getting people, then the Youtubers can't come back to play the game because there is no one on.

It's a spiral downfall that has happened to every game but battlegrounds, and SG. Mainly because SG is done by everyone and battlegrounds is just, there.

Partly the reason why no one plays on the other servers is conveniently explained in one video JustAHotDog:

The main reason is because they are in Beta, forever, MCGamer releases them, then goes back to focusing on SG, I understand priority, but, but, SGC!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?

These games could've been very successful and would've made MCGamer MCGamer and not MCSG, but from the beginning, the devs didn't seem to care for them at all, they didn't listen to us when we pleaded for SGC, and since no one played on the AntVenom game modes it didn't matter at all.

All I'm asking for is for the devs to just fix what we got, then release.

Obviously on our end we need to play as well, remember those people that test out the games once before giving up because of bugs, and, nobody on? That's probably a tiny fraction of the entire server population (the people who play MCGamer regularly). If we could all try to play, then the Youtubers could see that it's an oppurtunity, the new big thing, then new players watching those videos would see that it's the new big thing, and then the devs would realize that this would be a bigger priority because more people are playing, and so they fix the bugs.

That's how Survival Games went, that's how all the other game modes should have went.

I see where you are both coming from. But Survival games has been around since 2012 now. People need a change, mainly because it's what people have asked for, but also because it's healthy. Everyone complains that there is "Only Survival games". So the Dev's add more game modes, now people are complaining that they don't want anything other than Survival Games. I think it is necessary for MCSG to have these game modes in order for it to survive.

If MCSG is ever to return to it's former thriving glory then what would need to happen, is everything other than Survival games be removed. However, I'm not a fan of this. I believe that the way the server is now, is how it is best and how it shall remain. I'm actually going to start a thread on this soon, just to see how many people actually want to play game modes other than Survival Games.

Also, I have witnessed this first hand. People coming into the SG hub spamming the chat telling people to come and play "Deadly Decent". No-one goes, This is because there is a reason most people come to MCSG. And that is because they want to play Survival games.

~Vanth

Feel like they have to get rid of some gamemodes. I haven't played in like a lot of time (just joined for like 10 minutes 2 months ago to see the new gamemodes), but I feel like some of the new gamemodes are not that needed, as not a lot of people play them.

SnipahTriickz said:

dude ur not getting mod....

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SnipahTriickz said:

he isnt tho hes just some randy kid who thinks 'helping out the community' and putting ~Vanth at the end of ery sentence is gona got him mod XD

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Neither are you. Not with that 5 years old dipshit attitude ^.^

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~Electrix

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Woo makes you really tough talking about HIV and making fun of someone.

Its actually really sad. MCG puts so much effort into these new gamemodes and noone plays them. If they put all these out earlier it might not be a mainly a survival mode based server

DJ Kitty said:

Its actually really sad. MCG puts so much effort into these new gamemodes and noone plays them. If they put all these out earlier it might not be a mainly a survival mode based server

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Thats why MCSG stands out. Because it's widely known as "The Survival Games" server. People go to server like Mineplex or Hypixel for other game modes.

~Vanth

The fact is that these gamemodes are contributing nothing to the server. Even Antvenom didn't care about these games, so he threw them on our server instead. We need to put the gamemodes down before they leave a terrible impression on any newcoming player.

That's what happens if you overwhelm people: with all the new gamemodes, people didn't know what to play. Now none of them have enough players to even be used. Remove the crappy buggy games that no PvPer will ever care about and adapt to the community's needs, and maybe MCSG will actually regain its focus.

I don't care if they get rid of them or not, but either way, something needs to be done.

Way 1: Get rid of gamemodes nobody plays. Maybe cutting back on US/EU server space would pay for the South American servers.

Way 2: Advertise gamemodes nobody plays. More people on the server will ultimately lead to more donations, leading to MCGamer living longer.

But doing neither is only hurting you.

I've managed to play like 5 games ;-;