How Hypixel Dominated Minecraft Multiplayer

The most popular game in the world is minecraft the most popular server is hypixel and the most popular game mode is skyblock but why is this after several minutes of research all my evidence points to the owner’s avatar being a cute sloth but there are a couple other things i can

Talk about for a little while 2013 the year i got my phd hypixel was created in 2013 beginning as a server for people to play a variety of mini games on there were many other similar servers at the time all with different levels of popularity but what separated hypixel from the rest

Was the name sounding like hallucinogen now before we go on i need to make clear that this video will be an informational guide on how a company exceeded its competition if you find any of this video funny i ask that you please leave there’ll also

Be a lot of psychology talk so if you want to learn how to read minds this is where to start now there are a lot of factors that made hypixel better than other servers such as dedicated staff fixing player reports as a priority lots of different updates to spice up game

Modes and even reasonable ping but instead of all that i want to talk about roller coasters hear me out you go to disneyland and you see there are two roller coasters there a red one and a blue one you go on both of them to see how they

Are and they’re amazing incredible 10 out of 10 rides one of them has a loop-de-loop the other has a 100-foot drop in comparable great time so then you go home and you i don’t know what you do at home maybe you argue in common sections all day maybe

You cook meth i don’t know it’s not for me to judge anyway the next month you go back and you go there again and you see there’s the red roller coaster but now the blue one is it’s green so you go on that one of course because

It’s new and exciting you’re not used to that and then once you get closer to it you realize that the line is different they have tvs on the back of the seats you can unbuckle your seatbelt for a stylish suicide there’s so much new and exciting about it so you spend the whole

Day there is it better than the red one who cares it’s just different and that’s all that matters every time you come back you notice something new so you spend your whole day there except for when you’re cooking meth of course but my point is the red roller coaster

Is mineplex hive mc and all the other servers they’re great but hypixel is the blue roller coaster that just keeps changing with updates that they might be good but that doesn’t matter people just want a distraction from their boring repetitive daily lives so i guess i could have saved you time

By just saying the word variety but don’t worry the next section is much less worth your time how was the name hypixel created back when minecraft multiplayer was just beginning along with the oldest anarchy server in minecraft the economy on most survival servers was based on signed

Plugins to set up a shop you would need to place some items in a chest then assign in front of the chest the item would be detected and printed on the sign and the player could decide the price so if you had a chest full of iron it

Would say buy iron ingot 200 200 being the price set by the seller and other people could set up shop right next to you and undercut your price and everyone would buy the lowest priced item this worked pretty well but then we get to pickaxes if you put a diamond pickaxe

In a chest it comes up with diamond pickaxe good if you put an efficiency for diamond pickaxe in a chest it comes up with diamond pickaxe you can see the problem you couldn’t tell the enchantments of the tool from the sign instead people just assumed the higher priced pickaxes had the better enchantments

So the higher priced pickaxes were the only ones that sold the situation made everyone playing minecraft at the time think high pixel and so the server name was created this video does go into some real game design marketing and psychology aspects so i just wanted to weed out the weak people who can’t

Handle long drawn out puns why am i qualified to talk about this surely hypixel staff other server owners or youtubers that have been playing consistently for years know more about this than me well you see i have google another filtered chinese version there’s just one picture of their ruler saving

Puppies from a fire with google i have the same knowledge as a phd in any field 2017 the euro graduated middle school in the summer of 2017 or winter for you upside down people january 19th bed wars was added before this everyone thought that other game

Modes we had were kind of fun good way to spend hell no they are garbage compared to bed wars this is the good game mode the only one the owner of the server simon geniusly invented this mini game of pure fun so it turns out they stole

It it was called rush and then egg wars but history remembers the winners perspective and i as a news channel and very biased so good job hypixel and this is where we come to me youtubers and we have to ask the question does hypixel help the youtuber or does the youtuber help hypixel

Well back here high pixels seem to praise youtubes technoblade made videos talking about random things by playing skywars and bed wars and boom tweet from the owner personal unique rank just for him thank you technoblade for making our game look fine could we shine your boots

Buy your yacht give you a roast pork well maybe not the last one needless to say youtubers and high hypixel have a dichotomy of mutual gain but i say it anyway because i want you to think i’m smart i use this channel as an ego boosting endeavor and this could be

A large part of why hypixel beat out mineplex and hivemc techno didn’t make skywars videos on their server a lot of people get mad at hypixel for trading youtubers better than common folk but maybe they know they owe them a little there’s a lot of psychology that goes

Into why you play the server that your favorite youtuber plays but i can explain it with this quick small test answer these questions out loud or in your head what is five plus three what is one plus four what’s seven take three name a vegetable carrot you said carrot cause you’re a

Sheep and you don’t think for yourself the year i got my pen license now that hypixel is on top it has to work hard to stay that way any slip up will give room for another better server to take its place so how does it stack up to its competition today

When i look into hypixel there aren’t any notifications about needing to vote for the server for free items i don’t know if this is a glitch because every other server has literally 12 voting links a minute literally there are more texts on the screen than block there are also a bunch

Of ranks that you can spend real money on to have but you don’t really need to the largest advantage you’ll gain is less cyber bullying from people richer than you there still will be cyber bullying just less there are still the same slew of minigames to play adapting other games

Into minecraft like smash heroes murder mystery soar i don’t know why they did that one but uh which finally brings us to skyblock 2019. yes we’re jumping back in time deal with it time is a social construct 2019 the year i was born high pixel skyblock releases youtubers scramble

Over at making content it explodes in popularity people realize it’s just blocky runescape it explodes in popularity the skyblock coin is worth more than the u.s dollar people discover order clickers everyone quits which brings us to me youtubers again but this time specifically skyblock youtubers there are literally hundreds of

Hypixel skyblock youtubers hundreds dedicated to this one gamemode and there’s a bunch that are actually really successful with it so the question is do youtubers help the server grow or does the server help youtubers grow every day there’s a new poll on the forums asking who the best youtuber is

And it’s always taken i don’t know why they keep trying obviously people are quite invested in the youtube scene although compared to before hypixel seems to not care quite as much they’re already successful and they’re just too many youtubers to keep track of nowadays god dammit standard of living increasing

So people have more computers why i don’t have so much competition the thing youtubers do most of the server is to just have people always thinking about it keep it in their minds which ties nicely into hype which we’ll talk about soon but first the thing i’m about to talk about is

Quite dangerous toxic to human skin even so be careful um enter the forums i believe the forums are a great help to hypixel in every way and only add to the game hear me out the year is 1980 you see a movie and hate it you want to complain to

Someone about how awful it is but there’s no place to do that you eventually forget about your anger and the movie itself life goes on fast forward 40 years you see a movie and hate it you want to complain to someone about how awful it is you go to reddit find that movie

Subreddit and you post about how despicable anyone who likes it is get into an argument with the fans every day you check back for more people to argue with you compare them to hitler you leave your wife to yell at people you don’t know it consumes you your personality is purely the opinion

Of this movie you will never forget this movie get it do i really have to draw the comparison people complaining on skyblock forums always keep the game in their minds they can never really quit another reason a game gets popular is because of a genre for a while all the

Company had to do was make a battle royale and it did well a long time ago people just made minecraft clones and some of them lived on and that begs the question what genre is hypixel skyblock at its core heart hypixel skyblock is a strategy game you have to really think

And plan out how to fit your life around playing this game 14 hours a day but it’s also an educational maths game if you spend any time optimizing your minion setup or max melee damage you’ll need at least a degree in astrophysics actually i heard that time dear got

Hired at nasa for his damage video that’s why it doesn’t upload much anymore however it could also be an action game fighting dragons wolves spiders zombies all of which i die to constantly ah this game is so hard it’s like the i should have been thinking like an

Ignorant gaming nerd maybe skyblock is the dark souls of block games of course it’s all clear it’s for the difficulty the ripoff from from software nope that was too easy it can’t be the first thing i thought when playing skyblock was level up your skills oh it’s runescape

Then i mined emeralds for 10 hours and leveled up once so yeah it’s runescape moving on to a very unstable source of popularity excitement for the future overzealous hope hype i remember when the pet update was leaked everyone talked about it for a week guesses on what it could contain and how

To make money off of it thousands of messages of speculation from one image i was watching 30 viruses stream as it came out as with thousands of others boom update is out recipes discovered auction house flipped youtube videos made i owe pretty much my whole channel to that update

After a week everyone had calmed down all the pets have been discovered money-making methods made moot people were getting bored and they might have boom slays v2 new leaks in the cycle starts all over again to be fair that update actually never came out but the hype matters more than the updates itself

Even if an update disappoints you go back to the hate loop of complaining there always has to be one update leaked and talked about to look forward to what i’m getting at here is hyperxl isn’t really a game company more like a marketing and psychology company they just opened 15 new staff

Positions for psychiatrists three witch doctors and one ryan reynolds i don’t know if they have luck with that last one but good on them for trying so to conclude i started making this video and then a new update just came out that caused a quarter of the endgame playbase to

Threaten quitting so i’m adding a new segment called why hypixel skyblock might not be so popular soon introducing pay to win there are a lot of boosts that can help you with the game but the most blatant is that you can just buy cookies which are worth a coin value

Spending however much money you want directly converting it into skyblock coins it’s not quite as bad as it sounds though coins aren’t being directly added to your purse from hypixel you have to sell a token that other players can buy with their coins so no new coins are

Being added to the system in fact there’s a small tax so this ever so slightly reduces inflation within the game although a lot threat in quitting it seems the player count hasn’t actually dropped at all the new mass system adds a new event to discover every week new

Long-term boosts that take a long time to reach and just far more complex gameplay or work to keep players coming back however there is one thing that i am worried about skill leveling speed the most difficult and time consuming thing to grind in the game are skills take foraging for an example originally

You would walk around a forest and chop logs one at a time for six experience and people did this for hours a day months on end they spent months of their lives to get a higher level than the rest say what you will about the social life but you can’t call them undedicated

Nowadays there’s a 20 extra skillex peak permanently 20 more scale xp from cookies 30 from pets 15 from potions arms as they make you run twice as fast a new axe that cuts 30 logs at once all these added up take literally months of grinding time off of level 50 skills

And it kind of trivializes the work that the old players did to get it people are being rewarded double for the same work it’s kind of like very very fast inflation imagine you work at mcdonald’s you earn 12 dollars an hour it sucks but you need the money

The next day your friend gets a job there and you ask her how much you get paid oh uh seventy dollars an hour what outrage you go and ask the manager what’s going on i know twelve dollars was yesterday now i know we’ve changed since then yeah

And uh seven seventy dollars an hour from everyone from now on except you won’t be compensated for your previous work no no and uh you’ve actually reached your limit from being paid for the month so that’s all you’ve got all right go clean up the diarrhea on table five

This is why there’s a mcquit runescape and look what happened to runescape they made a new version that flopped and then the old one became insanely popular so in conclusion hightail will be garbage and scarborough will become more popular than ever