The Bedrock Marketplace is a failure.

The bedrock marketplace is like a store where you sell something that nobody really likes or wants it’s a store where what is sold makes no sense it objectively is a badly marketed product but it still somehow manages to make a profit this video is why i think the bedrock marketplace is a failure

Now don’t get me wrong there are a lot of things that i think the marketplace does really well it’s a great place to get creators to sell their world skin packs or texture packs most of those are also worth your money but there is one category that i think the marketplace

Really messed up and that’s their texture pack section now for those unaware i got reached out by a marketplace team about the possibility of them releasing a pack of mine onto the marketplace they got denied for reasons i don’t want to get into too much but basically it wasn’t what they

Were looking for it wasn’t unique enough and they felt that my pack wouldn’t be hit material because in their words the marketplace is a extremely competitive environment not take from that what you will but in my opinion it’s somewhat fair but also baffling see what disturbs

Me most is that they said my pack isn’t something they think would do well i’m assuming that they mean a pep pack now obviously i appreciate the honesty but if you look at what type of better content is the most popular it’s very clearly pvp based content yet almost

Every single pack on the marketplace is an adventure survival pack in fact if you look up the keyword pvp on the store search bar you’ll find that there’s only a couple packs you can actually consider pvp packs and the ones that are on there are well pretty bad but christ you might ask

Maybe people just like survival packs more than they do pvp packs that could be possible but if you compare pvp packs to survival packs on google trends it’s pretty obvious which one is more popular or searched more but even if this wasn’t a solid statistic it doesn’t make sense

For who the survivor packs are for every single popular survival pack is a high resolution pack anywhere from 32x to 128x anybody with some knowledge in texture packs knows that higher resolutions equal less frames now for pvp you don’t need a higher render distance so high resolution packs

Usually work fine but in a survival world where you want to see for as far as possible these packs just don’t make sense you can literally crash minecraft given enough high-res textures i’ve crashed a 10 year old laptop from just using a 32x pack you’d think this

Wouldn’t be an issue since these are marketed towards many pc players right wrong at least eighty percent of bedrock’s users are on console or mobile i don’t know about you guys but if i’m at a pack only 20 of people could realistically use then i made a bad

Product it’s even worse when you’re actively making the using experience worse by having textures be unnecessarily large but wait can they just download a better pack from the internet well console players can’t but even those that in theory can often don’t know better packs exist for free

There’s a level of quality expected when you play for something so i can see why most people maybe hear about good free packs but don’t think twice about it because they think money equals better quality and free equals garbage but for those that have tried a decent pvp pack

Just once literally can’t go back i remember i used to buy marketplace packs and i thought they were the best thing ever but then i started watching youtubers i noticed that they used pvp packs packs that i couldn’t find in the marketplace and i tried one out for

Myself i haven’t looked back since i wonder if the marketplace creators and teams are aware of how oblivious our users are to outside packs it’s always dangerous to assume that your product is the best thing ever when your consumer is unaware of anything better it’s something i was worried about a lot when

I released my first pack the only person that had tried it was an old friend and he might have been sugar coating for all i know but turns out it still is the most downloaded pack i’ve ever made to date with over 150 000 downloads both

From mcpedal and the add-ons app i feel like the marketplace is unaware of the fact that they live in a bubble where they think they are making the best possible content because their customers haven’t been exposed to competition he was of the opinion that people are aware

Of better packs but choose to download marketplace packs i disagreed but the sad truth is that even if the only marketplace users are controller players and every mobile player stopped dialing marketplace packs the marketplace would still be making a profit they told me i was wrong and it makes no sense how the

Store would still generate millions of dollars with a part of its consumers missing now i have not found any statistic on how many of those players play bedrock so i had to painstakingly research how many sales what device had and ultimately figure out how many people played java compared to bedrock

The only real statistic i was able to find was that roughly 50 percent of those 150 million minecraft players were playing on playstation every month that’s not even mentioning xbox or switch players if we count those we end up with 14 mobile players which means that the pc player count would be at

Less than 20 percent that’s including both java and bedrock players which is crazy it shows only you’ll play bedrock because of consoles now the statistics could be inflated but even if we assume that console players which are the main consumer base in the marketplace only

Make up 20 of the 150 monthly users that still ends up with 30 million unique devices now let’s say i release a 10 pack to those 30 million all i need is for 0.3 percent of those players to buy that pack and i would be a millionaire now realistically i’m not getting a

Hundred thousand downloads but it’s possible a lot of free packs get over a hundred thousand dollars regularly in fact a bunch of java packs made for a player base that is way smaller than bedrocks get over a hundred thousand the amount of money somebody could make if a

Youtuber like evidence got himself a texture pack and released it on the store is literally unimaginable you know what the craziest thing is the marketplace only makes five hundred thousand dollars every single month which i know is a lot of money but considering how massive their audience

Is you’d think it’s more which either shows people don’t like marketplace packs or they don’t want to pay for content they feel is bad regardless of knowing what other packs exist maybe some can’t pay but out of a hundred million console players you’d expect at least one percent to be active buyers

Every month many people still don’t know that you can get free packs that are in my opinion and the opinion of so many ex marketplace users objectively better i’ve gotten so many comments from console users back when i announced i would try to get a pack on the marketplace that said something along

The lines of finally a good marketplace pack which made me sad after i got denied because i kept thinking what would i do if i didn’t have access to a good pvp pack and i was forced to use a marketplace pack honestly i couldn’t live without short swords and a custom

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My pack wasn’t good enough deep down i knew it didn’t fit the marketplace but would really take me off was them saying that although some people may not believe so the marketplace is an extremely competitive environment that’s like if all your friends except you started producing shoes and all they

Made was basketball shoes after a week you and your friends meet and they explained to you they tried selling the shoes and you find out that for the most part everybody saw the same number of shoes you might think wow that’s a really competitive environment let me

Join in and try to also sell some basketball shoes and try to make some money after another week you meet again and it turns out that everybody with some exceptions all had similar sales compared to last week all of you now are thinking how do i make more money than

My friends for example you may think about adding some cool quotes on your shoes from famous basketball players some might add new color schemes some even add some cool art on the shoes but what nobody’s thinking of is that there are actually a lot of people that want

To buy running shoes sure there’s an audience for basketball shoes but because you were so preoccupied with making the most amount of money from your existing consumers you weren’t aware of what people actually wanted my pack got denied because it quote wasn’t original enough when ironically all the

Popular marketplace packs look the same there’s a lack of true diversity where is the default that is that so many people have been craving recently where are pvp packs that have such a strong fan base where are the packs that could give you a crap ton of downloads like my

Custom crosshair pack there are so many opportunities to be had on the marketplace and the sad thing is they probably won’t ever be acknowledged all right that was it for the video long video pretty difficult video to research um one thing i think i have to add is that

I think every creator on the marketplace with a semi-successful pack is probably a better pixel artist than me like the quality of the individual textures is really good it’s just that they don’t work well together and everything else is just boring like no cool ui and often

It’s just like blocks and maybe some items but besides it’s just most of it is default there’s just nothing really unique and nobody tries to do something that’s truly different you know that they use packs are usually very safe on the marketplace uh but i just wanted to say that because

Some people might take this video in the wrong way and say i’m attacking marketplace craters i’m not i’m just saying that a lot of the packs made are packs that feel like they’re made for the same people over and over again that don’t really want these packs anymore

But yeah i hope you guys enjoy the video i hope you guys enjoy the sponsor as well and i hope that i research this video correctly because i do take some pride in the fact that i make good arguments in my video and i think videos through very

Well so it’s just one of my like three arguments in this video don’t sit well with people then uh i i kind of feel like i’ve i failed my audience but more so myself so i really hope this video does well if you could share this to a friend i really

Appreciate this because i think if if we can share this to enough people it might somehow reach like a marketplace team and we can actually start seeing some changes in the marketplace but uh yeah that was it for the video i’ll see you guys the next video bye