The Rise and Fall of Minecraft Hunger Games…

Minecraft hunger games also known as survival games is one of Minecraft oldest and most popular game modes of all time the game is based on the popular Hunger Games movie released around 2012 if you’ve ever played Minecraft you are very likely to know about The Hunger Games or have at least

Played at once but these days hunger games are significantly different to what it once was and its popularity has dropped so much to the point where hunger game servers are struggling to your players so what happened well let me give you a quick history of how

Hunger Games or as it was known back then survival games came to be a small build team called team ver I’d created the first survival games map sg-1 in early April of 2012 the map featured a small center of chests called a cornucopia and twelve places for players

To started when the host of survival games pulled a lever all the players were pushed up a block by Pistons and could start playing the concept of the game is simple kill or be killed and the last player standing wins players can’t destroy any blocks apart from leaves

Grass and mushrooms and they also can’t place any blocks the map itself was about 1,000 times 1,000 blocks but this is not completely accurate as a border of the world is in a spherical shape rather than a cube the map is comprised of spruce trees in a custom-made forest

Biome it’s gathered around the map of our ruins of structures and houses which can contain chests with loot as well as larger trees with loot and cliff sides with dangerous drops there are also hidden rooms and caves as well as hidden traps and structures which if found can

Contain some of the best and rarest loot a single crafting bench is located in the center of the map in the cornucopia so if players found items such as iron ingot and sticks they could go to the center of a map and craft a sword to say

The very least the map was really cool at the time and team varietal on with hivemc released a map on the hive server for the public to play on but the survival games didn’t gain its crazy popularity into one fateful game one of the first-ever survival games in the

17th of April 2012 less than a month after the Hunger Games movie was released a bunch of popular youtubers at the time played a game of survival games featuring captains whose and venom Paulson’s Junior syndicate and many more the games were hosted by machinima and organized by ihascupquake hilariously

Enough on their first attempt to play the game there was an issue with the Pistons not putting players up out of their hole so they decided to restart when they did manage to finally start it went as expected of all Hunger Games where some players died right at the

Beginning in the middle and the rest slowly died over time however in this first Hunger Games when plays died they could become sponsors which basically means they can follow a play around in creative mode while vanished and give them loot it cetera this is actually very similar to The

Hunger Games Movies where sponsors could donate food or medicine or tools which could be dropped at the arena through a parachute in this version of Hunger Games there was also no deathmatch feature which is where all the players remaining get teleported to the middle of the map where they have to fight it

Out death matches only occur when there are very few players left but since the survival games didn’t have death matches sponsors tried to direct the final three players which were kept as Parkinson and venom to each other by placing mobs and lava around them ended up working in

Captain’s Park was an ad that had an epic fire where an venom managed to knock CaptainSparklez into lava with a bow shot and then proceeded to kill him the survivor games blew up on YouTube CaptainSparklez video has over 11 million views and an venoms over 5 million sparked a whole new wave of

YouTube content with hundreds of Minecraft servers popping up running hunger games as either their main game mode or part of their large selection of minigames almost every sizable minecraft youtuber at the time was making Hunger Games videos or at least made some they would often collaborate and play together and

Due to this the popularity of Hunger Games just continued to increase and increase players were innovating and new maps were added for hunger games as well as some custom audits with custom features being added the number of players in a game was also increased from about 12 to 24 with some even

Having upwards of 48 players some souls were set up just to run hunger games and I’m going to talk about one server in particular mcsg which stands for minecraft survival games began as a survival games only server in April of 2012 during this time there was only one

Map which is the original survival games map and you would have to join the game directly through a server list on the internet there was no hub or area where you could select games as a server guru different servers were added for different regions such as Australia and more maps were added to

The game mcsg eventually became the MC game and network featuring other game modes such as UHC and sky wars it also became far easier to join games as he could now view all the servers available in science and join games to try clicking them mcsg established a

Survival game genre which we see today in their version there were 24 players and two tiers of looting chests in the center of the map was a tier to dilute which could be iron gear or even diamonds and scattered around the map with tier 1 chests which could be wooden

Tools and leather armor it is possible to find tier 2 loot in the wilderness but often they are hidden or traps are set up around them chess would restock at night and similar to the YouTuber survival games you could break leaves and mushrooms and grass the server also

Featured point systems where if players won they would get a certain amount of points and there was a leaderboard to track these top players players could also use their points to place bounties on other players in games which they were spectating mcsg became very popular

And was one of the go-to servers to play survival games on unfortunately during 2016 the server faced lots of issues and hacks became a lot for along the server as well as these issues minecraft began in the downwards trend during 2016 especially with the release of 1.9 lots

Of members of the QT left and a server eventually shut down during 2016 it did actually reopen not too long ago but then shut down again after only a few months now let’s get back to modern-day minecraft where Hunger Games is but a shadow of his former self alongside the decline of Minecraft

During 2016 to 2018 Hunger Games also significantly dropped in popularity and never really recovered even with the popularity of Minecraft increasing again in 2019 an event such as minecraft Monday being run that being said there are still lots of servers which run hunger games so let’s take a look at

Some of them first of all mine Plex hunger games mine Plex hunger games at his core isn’t actually too bad but the main issue is an issue with the server network as a whole the lag the game is just so laggy that it become so difficult to PvP and use abilities

That’s right abilities this is going to be a common trend with all the servers I’m about to cover basically on mineplex there are about 10 classes or kit you can pick at the start of the game and they give you abilities such as ground pound where you do more knock back

Assassin we do two more damage we get another player from behind and Beastmaster where you can spawn a wolf every 30 seconds now these all sound actually quite fun but the issue is that you only have 2 out of the 8 kids unlocked the other costing certain

Amounts of gems which is Mayan plexus form of currency certain kits are better than others and they also cost more which gives certain players a huge advantage while I was playing I found that if I was hit with one of these abilities which are so

Difficult to see in Dodge due to the lag that I’m almost guaranteed to lose the fight the abilities are just unbalanced and unfair aside from abilities the maps are decent I find however that there are far too many chests around the map and it’s too

Easy to get loot one of the major things with early survival games Maps especially the original is that loot is very scarce mine Plex is just dumps loot on you and you often find yourself tossing things out because you have so much stuff already in your inventory the maps themselves also lacked the

Wilderness and out their field and they’re just too small in my opinion ok now moving on to high pixels version of hunky games which isn’t actually called Hunger Games but rather blitz survival games har Peters version of Hunger Games is by far the worst on any big server I

Encountered there are so many kids on blitz survival games and each kit can be upgraded significantly giving certain players our massive advantage over others there is also other things such as a blitz tiles which give you very strong abilities the games go very fast because the maps are quite small and

Players will literally have enchanted iron armor and weapons one minute into their game due to their kids like I said the maps are tiny you can literally see from one corner to another it’s really just all-out terrible in my opinion alright enough of these servers with

Stupid kids let’s go back to where it all started the hive the hive survival games are actually really good but there is one major issue the server is hosted in Europe so American and Australian players are basically screwed I tried playing on there from Australia and had about 365 pink consistently aside from

Pinyin location issues the hive survival games of baits identical to how it was back in the day there is no kits or any ways to gain advantages in game and is 24 players pitted against each other no Opie items and they even have a lot of the first maps some of which have

Been revamped to work on the newest versions of the game the only rule notable difference is that chests look different instead they are these little heads with particles or something but that barely impacts the gameplay is just a ruse shaving the servers hosted in Europe making it unplayable to many

People so disappointed by my inability to play on the high of juda ping I kept looking for servers and found MC central survival games which is one of the closest to a G survival games out there apart from the hive of course fortunately MC central is hosted in the

US so the ping is playable for someone like me from Australia MC central survival games are pretty good they have decent maps and even have some of the og maps however the server does have a few kids and a bunch of abilities which unbalanced the game you

Can also buy certain ths which give you loot every time the game starts massively unbalancing things some loot is also too easy to get and too often you find players with half enchanted diamond armor at the end of the game because they snowball out of control but at least MC central allows teaming

Meaning you can replicate the old feeling of joining and playing with a friend so survival games also known as hunger games is mostly terrible these days plagued by kits and other nonsense abilities very few servers replicate the same style The Hunger Games used to have most of them have small communities or are

Unplayable due to ping the maps also feel worse designed and they are as mysterious or as adventurous as the first Mouse which were much larger and really made you feel like you’re in the wilderness another issue which I found is that there are so many blatant users

On these servers aside from hypixel for the most part and when I was trying to record footage for this video there are multiple times where I was cured by a blatant cheater ruining the game maybe one day a new server will pop up which runs survivor games similar to the hive

Before Australian and American players and will finally be able to get that og feeling from survival games if you know any servers with better hunger games be sure to let me know in the comments thank you so much for watching and be sure to subscribe you