What Caused Hypixel's Unexpected Decline?

Hypixel was once a server that dominated the minecraft minigames scene. Everyone had heard about it or played it at least once. But if you were to go into a bedwars lobby nowadays it might look like this…What happened?

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[fps]

i like how you say its dead in the thumbnail but its still the most popular server on minecraft

[itsfrainly]

It wasn’t unexpected it’s because people in charge don’t give a crap

[infernoanonymous]

To be fair during lockdown, all that everyone did was play games, Roblox is catered towards younger audiences, Fortnite is just a more casual replacement for CoD for some people in some ways, and Vanilla Minecraft is just fun, also modded Minecraft exists. So honestly if anything it's that Hypixel isnt rly so popular with the new Minecraft audience because nowadays Minecraft is something more than Hypixel, back in the day you couldnt even go a day without being suggested videos filmed on Mineplex, Hive, or Hypixel, because mini-games were all the hype back in the day. Now most hype is around modded playthroughs, vanilla smps/smps with twists (Hermitcraft, Lifesteal, etc).

TLDR
Hypixel is mostly dropping due to mini-games not being as popular/not being the center of attention of Minecraft anymore like before.

[lottery]

the first day they deleted SkyClash rather than putting them to classic section and focusing their entire resource for the three popular games, which amounts more than 80 percent if not 90 of their entire network. on top of it, their entire staff team has been out of touch for years, and reporting can only go through commands at this point, and the forum access is being restricted worse than it used to be. Hypixel at this point isn't incompetent, but treacherous.

[Blokae]

you know what I really miss is hunger games.

[MatehovenOfficial]

It's really sad that skyblock is the only game that gets updates.
Skyblock players always say, "well yeah they update it because it gets the most players"
And they're wrong, skyblock was originally really small but they just decided to focus on that for like no reason.
I want updates to TNT wizards!!!

[NNHidden]

They should bring Mystery Boxes back. I miss these so much ngl

[dizzyoldsquid]

the minecraft building community, the survival community and hardcore community and slowly growing while the pvp community is dying :(

[SimplyTheRedMelon]

yea me and my friends use to play everyday we eventually stopped bc people sweated and hacked so much it just got repetitive

[StarSolus]

Hypixel will always be a server that everyone will remember in the end.

Also, I just randomly found your channel. You have some great stuff, man!

[kketaminekitty]

Almost all servers are dying. To be totally honest I dont think its hypixel's or any other servers fault, minecraft pvp as a whole is just dying

[starrythestar]

The sad part is that Hypixel is owned by Riot Games which is owned by Tencent, a Chinese company that only wants money. That could be why.

[imsosad_]

Hypixel likes to ban players without any point.😅

[dankusoonyt]

The passing of Technoblade also caused a decline of player count.

[UnexpectingDuck]

You're kind of right, but one can argue that is not a decline in the player base being interested, but the hype also just dying down. Minecraft as a whole is still incredibly popular, but look were it was 3-5 years ago compared to now. Dream was the front runner of youtube for a long time, Pewdiepie has a series, Technoblade was growing astronomically, but everything has slowed down. Hypixels innovation could only take them so far, they were destined to fall, and way more than other servers since most of Hypixels players were on because of the popularity of minecraft, while smaller servers usually sustain a more loyal playerbase. Also its hard to compare hypixel with its players between the months of August and May, since thats when school happens, which causes many people to stop playing for long periods of time, the summer is where hypixel shines. I think they plan on trying to innovate more, since they've already talked about integrating newer versions as mandatory for certain things (specifically skyblock) but i dont see why they cant also apply this to other games on the network, and possibly new releases.

[BlackMMP.]

very underrated video! here before it blows up :D

[apple]

i would say 60% of those people quitting cuz of the shit ping and connection issues we face due to hypixel not caring about making eu servers etc

[Airslayer]

wow this a good video i also know why there saying we are back and stuff and i wanna join so... WE ARE BACK CHATTT

[spookster]

Hi Heyducky, wish the documentation was a bit longer tbh.

[avannah]

funny to see people act like it's dead when it has still 50k players peaks regularly and is still the most popular server. Y'all don't know what a dead game is lmaoo