[schmidtbochum]

I dont know how many goodbye posts we had in the last month. Dont forget that not everyone who's leaving is making a goodbye post. Probably 100s of active players left.

But Why?
My theories:

1. You are done with Minecraft:
You play minecraft since 2 years, since alpha. You always played on minerealm. You own Millions of credits, realms and items. And Now? There is nothing new to do, no motivation. Why are you still playing this game?

2. Too many new faces:
The first mod i ever saw in chat was s292r. It was in last summer, when i joined the server the first time. I renember many players, and many of them left or were banned later.
Now there are many new players, who joined less than 3 months ago. And these are the most active players.

3. The Minerealm System: $$$
Half of the Spawn realms were empty because players just bought them for profit, most are still empty. - Like A Desert
The Credit-System is a long-time motivation? isnt it just boring to mine netherrack for 10 hours, stand in a exp grinder all day long or strip-mine diamonds? - I think it is.
The Community Features are below standard. There is no way to contact offline people (/mail function), there are no community realms. A guild is just a private chat.

I think the first point is the most important - you just get bored if you play minecraft for 1 year.
The Minerealm Concept does not compensate it.

What is your opinion?

[Roobean]

Half of the Spawn realms were empty because players just bought them for profit, most are still empty.

For me the reason my Spawn realm is still flat is because I am doing a project which takes time to do (Doing it in Single Player before making it in MineRealm and plus I am a perfectionist =/ xD

[SuperCreeper007]

I dont know how many goodbye posts we had in the last month. Dont forget that not everyone who's leaving is making a goodbye post. Probably 100s of active players left.

But Why?
My theories:

1. You are done with Minecraft:
You play minecraft since 2 years, since alpha. You always played on minerealm. You own Millions of credits, realms and items. And Now? There is nothing new to do, no motivation. Why are you still playing this game?

2. Too many new faces:
The first mod i ever saw in chat was s292r. It was in last summer, when i joined the server the first time. I renember many players, and many of them left or were banned later.
Now there are many new players, who joined less than 3 months ago. And these are the most active players.

3. The Minerealm System: $$$
Half of the Spawn realms were empty because players just bought them for profit, most are still empty.
The Credit-System is a long-time motivation? isnt it just boring to mine netherrack for 10 hours, stand in a exp grinder all day long or strip-mine diamonds? - I think it is.
The Community Features are below standard. There is no way to contact offline people (/mail function), there are no community realms. A guild is just a private chat.

I think the first point is the most important - you just get bored if you play minecraft for 1 year.
The Minerealm Concept does not compensate it.

What is your opinion?

[schmidtbochum]

thanks, corrected it
sarks opinion:

Is it just me or is mine realm not as exciting as it used to be back before 1.2? I have run out of ideas and nobody seems to be pvping anymore, properly. I mean, it could be just me but I feel something exciting has to happen, many of the regulars are leaving and not many people are online in my timezone. During the day there would be about 8 or 9 others and me, which isnt that fun, and when I am online while its busy it would be 11 or 12 at night. I know this is far fetched, but a wipe maybe? Not sure, any suggestions on what to do when you have run out of things to do? Thanks for reading, I may have just wasted your time :/.

[Susan_Boyle]

I think it would be interested to know how many veterans have been banned/left from MineRealm in the last two months compared with in the two months before that, I'm wondering if it's due to the fact that more established players are leaving, and then leaving a group of maybe slightly younger players who appear more dominant in chat, and therefore may put people off from getting involved so much?

Otherwise, I am starting to find Minecraft less fun, maybe it is just getting to that stage where people have had the game for so long, and it doesn't really excite them so much?

[schmidtbochum]

Otherwise, I am starting to find Minecraft less fun, maybe it is just getting to that stage where people have had the game for so long, and it doesn't really excite them so much?

Same for me. Thats why i started my own server - a new challenge. I found new friends, built awesome things, developed the perfect server. - but now, after 4 months, i lost my motivation.

Im just chatting, flying arround, or working on the (perfect) config, adding useless commands, removing them next day.
Im building 2 or 3 small houses in a week, other players build 10 awesome structures in the same time.

Minerealm is still my home, but when i visit it, there are just people i dont know. most of them are businessmen, or pvpers - not my taste.

Find some friends on minerealm and play other games together, in a team. me and my staff team are playing Alien Swarm, a free steam coop game.

[Bonejunky]

I'll stick with you guys for a while longer. :D

My opinion on the subject: Who gives a hoot? Really, it doesn't matter much. It is their decision, not yours.

[schmidtbochum]

I'll stick with you guys for a while longer.

My opinion on the subject: Who gives a hoot? Really, it doesn't matter much. It is their decision, not yours.

i didnt say that i liked all of them. But Minerealm becomes a ghost server for me.

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Just so y'all know, Schmidt's german (as you may tell from his name) and german is his first language. He speaks english better than other foreigners. Please don't mistaken him as a younger player due to his grammar mistakes. Just thrown' that out there

[The-Jack-DeCk]

I don't see why people don't wait until the next big update before all of these ideas. Once minerealm 5.0 comes out, then we should be discussing what we are now.