J&H DYING?!

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  1. Boss3289

    Boss3289 SalterAndPepper

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    I was wondering your opinion on the state of J&H, as it's slowly losing popularity with at it's old peak, you'd get 10k people play, now you rarely see 2k people on. So my question is, Is J&H dying?
     
  2. MC_Scout

    MC_Scout Fearless Leader Staff Member Manager

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    Ive never seen ten thousand people on the server in my 3 years here.
     
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  3. Boss3289

    Boss3289 SalterAndPepper

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    My estimation maybe be off by a lot.
     
  4. Joeyy

    Joeyy Silly Goose of the year 2022 Donator

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    5k would be that max I've seen here in 3 years too, but I seriously think something needs to be done as well, more people leaving, less profit for the server, less minigames. And EULA's also a key factor, so yeah, I think more suggestions need to be added and accepted.
     
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    The state of J&His also effected by the time of year. A lot of people can't get on anymore,because of school or work. In my years on the server I have seen a slow decline but since school has start has it gotten hit HARD! I have seen the server on weekends with getting around now 800-1000 players on at a time not as previously before the start of school we had around 1000- to around sometimes 1300
     
  6. YuMaD_PRO_

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    i can say its dying .. ive been playing on this server for about 3 years already and i stop for like 4 months already. my opinion why people are leaving: slow progress of having new to develope more each mini games. its dying coz of lack of train of all of the staff members like taking good consideration on such things. Its dying coz owners seems like doesnt care on whats happening to the server i think they dont even care if the server die .
     
  7. Zackery

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    In the almost 4 years I've been a part of the J&H community, The most I've seen on 1 time was about 2.5k, and that was on weekends. Weekdays were like 800 - 1k players.
    But I do agree that the server is dying out, and that something does need to happen to bring the popularity back up.
    Accepting really good suggestions would be great, or even creating new mini-games that have never been seen before and then advertising it saying "New mini-game, never been seen before" and maybe people will come and play it and enjoy it.
     
  8. Katerina

    Katerina Former Mοd Donator

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    i think you mean 1k not 10k homie
     
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  9. Smg

    Smg Retired | Also known as 'Phaithful' Donator

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    I don't believe it's really dieing, I just see it as players losing interest. Could be the same thing, actually.
    I think we're fine as a whole for right now....but I also think/believe that there are many ways to gain more players. Such as having unique commands and/or features, the proper advertisement we all desire (./vote is one of our best options), and many more things which cannot come to my mind at the moment.
     
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    Most I've seen is 3k, and ive been here for 3 years.
     
  11. _Frizzy

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    I and sure a lot of other people are just growing up. I don't want to be playing Minecraft anymore, I have lots of better things to do nowadays than to just fiddle with my thumbs in a lobby.
     
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  12. Bearington

    Bearington Change your thoughts and you change your world Donator

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    Hm, to get more people playing I have an idea! ADD MORE MINI-GAMES. Also, ADD SOME MINI-GAMES THAT AREN'T PVP RELATED
     
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    I like this server and I also like the fact that I'm staff on it. However, we are not the only server that is going into a huge decline, even huge networks like mineplex have started to fall from 30k at peak to less than 10k at peak.

    So the answer is yes, the server is dying, due to lack of interest in new players, and unique minigames. However comrade, there's still a big chance that we can get the server back to where it was. The only problem is that nobody is trying to do that, again, due to the lack of interest in new players.

    EDIT: You see, there is like a mountain of popularity to the server. It starts out very small and tiny, then builds up to a climax. Once it reaches that climax then it starts to come down to a very small server again. This is most likely what IJ&H is going to be in the future, but don't count on it.
     
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    *cough cough* more minigames
     
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    Well the problem is, everyone is complaining that there's a declining community but no one has really stopped to think the reasoning behind it. Sure it may be school and whatnot, but I have also noted something else. I'm not trying to make a mini-rant, I'm just saying that the mentality of this community and the crave for popularity is what causes players to feel unwelcome here. Let's be honest here, nearly 90 percent of the posts on these forums are sarcastic and whatnot, especially by the "famous" forum members. I'm not saying we should make every new user the center of attention, but it seems like players are blaming staff or the mini games of the server rather than the actual mentality of the community.
     
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    I wouldn't say its dying, it's just... at a low point for now, but as stated by @Duk , this is mainly due to reasons such as school, work and EULA. Eventually, the owners and builders will see players suggestions to improve the server as a lot of people have noticed a decline and have started helping out by leaving these suggestions. Eventually it'll pick up again as well as a log of other servers. It just needs time. Perhaps a promotion from certain YouTubers or sharing the server with friends could help out a lot, I saw 3 players (including myself) in skyblocks 2 yesterday for a majority of the night. Skyblocks 2 use to be what made this server run, having a hundred+ players active at a time 2 years or so ago.
     
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    Eh, I would say Hypickles is just more fun for most players. We just need unique mini-games which is simple to play. All of us aren't immortals and we will all be adults at some time. Also I think kids play Minecraft PE and Xbox than the PC version because you don't need to waste tons of cash for a PC. Don't lose hope about server dying, it might get famous ^_^
     
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    Who cares. We should be more worried that "we" are dying every second.
     
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    I personally think that there are a couple of reasons why the IJAH's popularity is declining.

    1. Lack of videos uploaded on their channel
    Their main channel, ItsJerryandHarry, has been inactive for a long time, and it's safe to say that people obviously think they're quitting their business. Sure, they have a gaming channel called JerryvsHarry, but the videos on there are mostly minigames and adventure maps, rather than the Machinimas we all used to enjoy, I'm pretty sure IJAH has run out of ideas for them, and that's why their popularity dropped right before they hit 1 Million subscribers.

    2. Lack of unique gametypes on their server.
    The server, if you've noticed recently, wasn't really made much of an improvement in general at all. Their new games, are Skywars, UHC (Removed) and KitPvP, but all of these are ideas that are already being used in many other well-known communities, such as TheHive and Hypixel. I have to admit that people wouldn't be storming in IJAH just because they implemented a game which is already extremely popular on other servers.

    3. Leaderboard resets.
    I think this is much of a personal opinion, but I do think that most of the communities in IJAh, like the OITC community, quitted IJAH simply because of the leaderboards resetting. They never really gave us a full explanation and decided to reset the leaderboards and wash all their efforts away, I'd get a little irritated by that if you'd ask me.

    4. The Owners do not seem to really care about the server.
    This is more like a conclusion to what I've previously mentioned. ItsJerryandHarry's community is obviously marching towards its doom, yet the owners do not really seem to care about it even though they're aware of the problem. The first step for the server to become famous again is to become famous on Youtube again, which actually is quite hard. Next they have advertise their server and create new and unique games so that people would actually play it. Lastly, we need a group of staff members which are eager to help our players and solve hacker issues regularly.
     
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    I agree with all but the Lack of videos part. It doesn't really matter how many videos H&J Upload to there channel. It has no connection what so ever to the really big effect to the larger part of the popularity decrease we are all seeing. I only know a few people who I have talked to on the server who gives a rats butt about there videos. Its more about the community than about what Harry and Jerry do with there own channel.