Why is Jartex dying?

[JustANub]

Have not been playing Minecraft for a while but after logging on today, it makes me sad to see the state of the server. I personally left after creative got removed out of nowhere, but now I am shock that they even removed skywars and practicepvp. Personally, I blame management (please don't ban me) for the decline of the server, it seems that the only solution they make to the declining number of players is to remove and replace gamemodes, but to me this is just a short-term solution, it brings in new players that will probably play for about a month or two then never comes back, but what they don't realise is that by doing this, it permanently removes the long-term loyal players that they have. Please don't make fun of me I'm just wanted to say my opinion T-T.

 

[Saturaxion]

You see, every minecraft server, including jartex, have faced a downfall since the covid pandemic stopped. All servers and jartex too had a really great period while the pandemic was there, people were mostly at home, kids weren't going to school, and also content creators made minecraft really popular during those days. Now, the world is back to life, many of those kids grew up, many players switched to another more popular games and so on. Thus, the server is facing a great downfall since that period.

As for the question will minecraft ever be back to old amount of players, and will jartex ever get back to the old player count, probably not, but surely there will be some popular content creators again that will promote minecraft and bring us players, but we don't know when will that happen.

And don't blame management, developers or owners for that, because hosting a MC server costs a lot, and they're doing their best to keep it alive.

 

[FlawlessHoTDoG]

There's no need to write paragraphs, there are simple reasons:

Long answer:

1. Management has a different mindset than the players. They're making shit as pay-to-win as possible, it's almost as if they don't give a singular fuck about the players and what they love to see, what they love to play and what they truly enjoy.

2. As you said, good game-modes were removed and not-so-nice ones were replaced. Practice was an awesome game-mode, it was getting nice players every now and then. Removed it and what did they add? Gens ( or one-block if I'm not mistaken ). Same thing goes for game-modes like sky-wars.

3. All the game-modes, whether old or new, have a lot of potential. Amazing ideas, coming from respectable people. However, the whole pay-to-win environment ruins it all for most players.

4. Lack of skills in developers. This is not even a debate. It's obvious at this point that developers lack one of two things, either skills, or time. Every time a season is dropped, we expect tens of bugs, to the point where it'd be a surprise if a season was actually dropped with less than five noticeable bugs.

5. Of course, part of what Saturxation said was indeed true. Many of the old players have grown up and now they have a life. They can't spend 24 hours a day playing video games. After all this is a 9-10 year old server. If the X player was 15 years old when he first joined, he might be 24 now. If the Y player was 20 when he joined, he might have a wife and kid now.

6. Lastly, the staff team. The staff team is filled with people who don't even care about the limits to their powers and how they're supposed to use it in a certain way. All it requires is one sentence. As soon as a friend asks something from a moderator, it's there for him. No matter how stupid and unfair it is to do it.

Short answer:

Money-thirsty owners, skill-less/busy developers, and abusers in the staff team.