2b2t – Is Priority Queue Worth it?

If you’ve ever tried to play on 2b2t before the largest and oldest minecraft anarchy server you’ve probably come face to face with this the queue most of the time it’s extremely long you may have to wait in some cases over half a day just to get into the server

For most new players this is a huge turn off and they never try to join the server again but then there’s priority queue for those willing to shell out 20 bucks they get priority access to the server for one month at first glance twenty dollars may seem pretty expensive

After all it costs almost as much as a minecraft account but to those who are willing to pay it’s certainly worth it to them so why do so many 2b2t regulars pay 20 dollars to play on what many like to call the worst server in minecraft should

Priority queue really be worth that much so first of all let’s figure out exactly what 20 really gets you on 2v2t when you buy priority queue for the server you basically get what the title says priority access to the server so it doesn’t necessarily mean that you can join the server instantly during

Peak hours it’s likely that you’ll still have to wait some time to join the server even when you have priority queue all of the players you see here in priority queue are all other players who purchased it meaning there’s actually two different cues for standard and priority queue

It basically works like this 2b2t has 250 player slots one portion of those slots is assigned to standard cube players and the other is dedicated to players who purchased priority queue because of the sheer number of players who have priority queue those slots get filled fast thus resulting in wait

Times that can sometimes last well over an hour for priority q players at peak hours even with that in mind players still purchase priority queue every month and for the most part they do it because they play 2b2t as their primary minecraft server so it makes sense that they have

Priority queue just so they don’t have to plan hours ahead of time just to play on the server that also brings up the question of why players even make 2b2t their primary server in the first place there’s so many 2b2t alternatives out there that don’t even have a queue at all

Players have their own reasoning for why they prefer 2b2t over other anarchy servers whether it’s the 10 year old map the freedom of a no rules server or the multitude of groups and events that happen on the server 2b2t does have a lot to offer that most servers often lack

So to the players who purchase priority queue it’s absolutely worth it to them if you don’t want to wait hours to play and can afford the 20 bucks then priority queue may be your best bet but hold up before you take your wallets out i want you to hear this

Twenty dollars per month is a lot just to play on a minecraft server if you want to play 2b2t with priority queue for a whole year it’ll cost you 240 dollars think of what you could have bought otherwise with that amount of money and keep in mind

You are only paying for getting a closer place in line that’s it 20 bucks and when i say that’s it i mean it housemaster calls priority queue a donation to the server a donation is supposed to help an organization grow but from what i’ve seen in the four

Years of me playing on 2b2t was very little to almost no overall server improvement yes housemaster did increase the maximum player limit yes he did fix extremely low tps gameplay for the most part and he does fix game breaking exploits like god mode although slowly but that’s really about

It for what he’s done to start let me go over a personal experience i’ve had with housemaster in regards to fixing a serious issue on the server a few months ago every time the server would restart players who had priority queue were not able to connect to the server

For minutes and sometimes hours afterwards this of course was extremely irritating i thought i bought priority access to the server not priority banning and if you don’t believe me i’ve even experienced this bug live on stream and i also confirmed that it only affects priority accounts by switching to a non-priority account

And it connected me just fine after this happened to me multiple times and confirming the bug with other players i emailed housemaster about it and he said that he’ll fix it it took him a few weeks and it was eventually fixed but here’s the thing this was a major

Bug that lasted for months something like this should have been fixed much sooner as it affected literally everyone who had priority queue so that’s just one irritation i had no big deal well actually what about the other issues that have been plaguing the server for months how about the fact

That almost every writing entity on the server doesn’t work when the server is below 20 tps how about the fact that dead bushes still can’t be picked up or how item tool tips on shulker boxes don’t work what about the time housemaster tried to patch pig spawners but instead ended up removing

Every mob spawner of any type that came into a player’s render distance one notable 2b2t player baron dome once had a base that was completely centered around a double mob grinder and one day poof they were all gone i’m sure many other players had bases that were affected by this

Oh and what about the time when sharpness 5 was removed from axes or silk touch being removed from shears when it was totally possible to get those enchantments on those items in the vanilla game things like this cannot be reversed even after those issues were eventually patched the spawners were never returned

And the tools never got their enchantments back this is just breaking the surface of the many issues the server has and previously had over the years i could go over even more issues but i don’t want this video to drag on too long Well so what i can’t use boats or i can’t see inside my shoulder boxes those are just petty things that we all have to deal with and here’s my response to that it’s estimated that the server makes between 16 and 20 000 per month on priority queue donations alone

You’d expect that house master would use that profit to give in return a fully functioning minecraft server yes the server is online and running somewhat smoothly most of the time but there’s a difference between barely working and fully functional and it’s not only the server itself that’s the problem what’s even worse

Than all that is the lack of updates and transparency with the players of tb2t the way housemaster communicates with the playerbase is through the 2b2t subreddit but he rarely posts updates about the server to the players so far for 2020 housemaster has made a grand total of zero

Posts addressing the player base compare that to the owner of constantium another minecraft anarchy server he made 28 announcement posts so far this year and that’s not even counting the replies that he makes to other users posts now what’s even worse just recently housemaster suddenly deleted almost all of his previous reddit posts

Now that’s pretty shady if you ask me and it’s also pretty sketchy to see a housemaster removing posts from the subreddit that shows any sort of criticism towards the server or himself remember that issue with priority queue i talked about earlier well people were posting about that same issue on the subreddit

Only for them to see their posts getting deleted shortly afterwards if people are paying to play on your server and you completely dismiss the issues that people are bringing up then there’s a problem in the meantime a new subreddit was created called 2b2t uncensored where players can repost things that were removed by

Housemaster i actually got my inspiration to make this video from a thread posted by sato on that subreddit so i’d definitely check it out even with all this in mind personally i will continue to purchase priority queue there’s simply no other server like 2b2t it has the oldest map

And is the most established anarchy server but i urge housemaster to take the points i made in this video into consideration if you’re earning a profit from running 2b2t then obviously players should expect you to put more effort into running the server so should you purchase priority queue

Well if you think it’s worth it go ahead i just want to make anyone who is considering purchasing priority queue know what they’re really getting into at least housemaster does keep the server up and running for the most part you