What Happened to These YouTuber Minecraft Servers?

The sky K Minecraft server shut down a year ago after nearly a decade of service and the YouTube Creator behind it Jack sucks at life almost had nothing to do with his eventual demise but what exactly caused Sky Kid another large YouTuber Minecraft servers to finally meet their end well we’re actually gonna

Dive a little bit deeper into that question today and hopefully find out some answers alongside discussing the current issues that are also surrounding Minecraft servers owned by other creators today so sit back and relax and let’s go back in time to 2014. on November 7th 2014 skycade launched

With two core game modes back then it was your typical prison style server and another mini game server that hosted Classics like SkyWars and Hunger Games and although the server had a decent start of about 150 concurrent users the hype quickly died down and Jack Massey

Welsh the owner of skycade at the time decided it was in dire need of change and the server would go dark until January of 2015. with the announcement of a relaunch with a different Focus later in the year and just 10 months after the server shut down it relaunched

The November of 2015. this time the server focused more on factions which would be its Mainstay until the introduction to Skyblock just a few years later and over time the server grew to new player accounts and highlights even reaching a massive 1 000 concurrent players across all of the

Realms on December 17th of 2017. it really seemed like there was nothing slowing it down as each game mode of release and seasonal reset would hit even higher concurrent player numbers before and Jack’s content was only growing larger alongside of it including videos of a barely known Tommy in it at

The time and another interesting Creator as well linear for something from assistance vitamin P yeah what Jack yes do you know any famous Thomas’s Thomas the Tank Engine but unfortunately when Minecraft slowly began to fall from its high points in the public guy in the 2010s began to end Jack’s content had

Already started to make a turn out of being focused around the server and the game in general and that reflected on the server activity as well and my content also took a pretty decent turn recently to better content so you should subscribe it’s free and you can always

Change your mind later thank you all for 2 000 subscribers it really means the world to me again thank you so much for supporting the channel and let’s get back into it the single best thing about Sky K during its original run was the focus from Jack and the rest of the

Staff team deciding to offer a huge non-pay to win experience throughout its lifetime until the very end almost all of the offered items to the store were strictly cosmetic with a few items that you could easily earn in game just being easily accessible the rank perks were

All cosmetic from trails to glows and any crate in the game would also give out similar cosmetic items or items like I said would already easily be attained for the game the core reason why I believe this reverse survived for so long even after Jack left in 2020 they

Tried their hardest not to be consumed as many servers do end up being by the grade that can be manifested by some server owners now I’m not too keen on the entire situation and there are Forum posts in other videos out there that explain exactly what caused the eventual

Downfall and subsequent closure of the server in March 2022 but it seems like a Litany of accusations of some pretty heinous behavior from a staff member alongside some other staff members being overly cruel to some players and that caused the server to flop into a realm

Of relevancy and it just could not make a turn for the better it was a hard one for me to see personally especially because my Channel’s first real series was on the network and Jack was one of my favorite creators at the time but as always all good things must come to an

End and skycade finally ran out of time which unfortunately also happened to another large server owned around this time by a group or as some may even call it a crew of creators attention the following video is going to totally kick ass if you enjoy any of it and or have a

Large penis please click the like button below enjoy KYR speedy and the rest of the crew decided it was their best interest to launch a server alongside their semi-regular crewcraft Minecraft series so on November 17th of 2013 alongside a group of developers the crewniverse server was finally born featuring survival factions SkyWars and

Skyblock with prisons coming a bit later in its lifespan the server again relied heavily on the support of the fan base of the crew which at the time they were still a cohesive group at the height of their popularity those big groups on the YouTuber super popular speedy and Co

Were an enormous group or the Vanoss Crew were also huge hits on YouTube so creating a Minecraft server was a no-brainer somehow again I was lucky enough to play on the surfer in its prime I was 15 at the time of the release I had so many fond memories of

Making friends playing an Unholy amount of Skyblock after I got home from school and enjoying my time while doing it I even managed to make enough money in the game to get someone else to purchase a rank for me which in hindsight was a really dumb decision of me to do and

Stupid of me to believe somebody but it actually worked I managed to get a middle of the road rank Commander rank which was about 50 at the time for absolutely free but that actually brings me to the main issue I had with the server and I was a

Bit blind to it at the time the server had an ungodly amount of pay-to-win features including a rank titled Master Chief which was valued at a whopping 500 in 2014. each of these ranks gave perks across all of the servers including a comically large amount of money for

Higher ranks unfair kits and the flying ability on some servers and a load of other scummy perks were on top of that as well and it was just incredibly pay to win but it took me until now to realize just how bad that really was so

Take a step back at some point and look at your favorite server either from today or from the past and see just how exactly they were scamming you and other players from a Pay to Win experience and now with these issues and a few other things like the lacking player base and

The crew’s disinterest in Minecraft as a whole at the time the server was only online for about a year but in that first month the server allegedly made about 76 000 but each subsequent month and without the main stars of the server minus Shadow who was almost always on

The server the other guys really didn’t get on that much the server died out and became a relic of the past but a Nostalgia trip for some a user by the name of death bunny actually reached out to me in 2017 in an attempt to release a

Copycat of the server and later that year and in 2018 I was even a part of that Resurgence But ultimately without the pull of the OG owners and the small player base the server quickly faded out yet again and it actually may seem surprising to you that servers were

Having these issues back then even all of those years ago but it is a reality and the effects of which are still being felt today Minecraft even tried to stop the servers by changing the Yola many years ago when Notch was still there it didn’t work out so well so they reverted

It but look what we are now take a look at invaded lands owned by one of the biggest creators in Minecraft skeppy it has an absolutely insane amount of pay to win in their stores selling things like fly and overpowered kits in their store and a largely impressionable fan

Base I can only assume it makes an ungodly amount of money for their staff team and him every single month thankfully they were on the Forefront of the mines when it comes to the duping and destroying paid wind server crowd so they’re always getting their piece of disturbed criticism and action upon them

But again these servers are owned by and use the already sometimes crazed fan bases of large creators to suck the life out of their pockets and their fans is absolutely disgusting some of the worst in the game and although there aren’t many of them that is where decent

Creators come in those who have a platform to talk out against these Bad actors and practices like the Mr Epic and his server the OG Network this is one of the best non-pay to win servers that offers a classic Minecraft experience and whose ranks stay within the Realms of cosmetic and honestly

Pretty reasonable prices for their keep their server afloat and they do this without going off into the path that leads to the most green with people when they own servers seriously this isn’t sponsored and I don’t even know the Mr Epic personally but is just an amazing

Example of servers doing it right where it counts right now there are so many servers out there doing the wrong thing and if anyone tells you that no server can stay alive without pay to win show them the OG Network they should set an example for everyone else an absolute

Case study on how to do things right I think this should be a wake-up call to a lot of creators out there right now that are sitting there looking at it like hey I can make my money off a Minecraft server by just buying some devs getting

Some people to work on it and then putting it in my back pocket forgetting about it you need to take a look at your servers and see exactly what’s going on in them I’ve reached out and contacted a few server owners in the past that are content creators that had absolutely no

Idea what their server was doing they would get on and play every once in a while maybe a couple videos so the player base would stay afloat but they wouldn’t take a deep dive into their services seeing just exactly how their play race is being scammed with overly

Pay to win items that completely ruin the game for everyone who doesn’t want to pay so if you’re a server owner or a player who plays on one of these servers right now I would definitely think about taking a step back and seeing how you’re affecting the community as a whole

Anyway guys that’s where I’ll leave it off for the discussion today hopefully you got a bit of a Nostalgia trip and maybe even a wake-up call to look back at the servers you once looked through rose-colored glasses like I did and you likely have before thank you again for

Watching getting your daily dose of vitamin P thank you all again for 2 000 subscribers on the channel I cannot thank you guys enough for the support if you want more videos like this I’ve been posting a lot more like this recently thank you guys so much I’ll see you guys

In the next one peace out and take care