Minecraft servers can range from anything from just you and your friends to a corporation with it’s own domain and microtransactions, with tons of minigames to play. One of the coolest parts is, is the fact that the servers are all player owned, and they aren’t hosted by Minecraft. Minecraft simply allows you to connect to these servers. When we talk about this, we are of course speaking about the PC edition of Minecraft, Minecraft Java, but due to the fact that these are player owned, this has some people questioning the ethics of some of the bigger more popular servers, such as Hypixel, a famous server known for it’s inventive minigames such as bedwars.
You see, anyone can make a server, but Hypixel is a more popular and globalized server that almost any Minecraft player has heard and known about. There have been multiple discussions of servers like these possibly botting their player count to reach the top of certain websites that promote these servers. Hypixel of course, is not the only one doing this, just the most well known. How did players find out about this you might ask? Well, when joining the server, players noticed that the ingame player count for individual lobbies was much lower than what it claimed to be before entering the server.
Before we mentioned websites that promote these servers. This is to help the servers gain popularity, almost like advertising. Another thing these websites do is have voting sessions so smaller servers can get recognized. Whichever server gets the most votes, gets promoted. Well, more popular servers make their players vote in exchange for compensation, making it unfair.
Another thing Hypixel was exposed for was promoting violent pillow fights. In Minecraft, sleeping in a bed acts as a spawn point for the player when they die. Well, bedwars takes a clever spin on things. A team or a player must defeat the other teams by breaking their bed and eliminating all of the players, otherwise they can respawn. As you can probably tell, this caused kids to go and try to destroy beds in real life, and even got some kids trying to travel to the nether to blow themselves up!
Overall, this has got Minecraft wondering if they should blow themselves up, as they are not sure that they want to deal with this.