I agree on that play to win commonly outperforms pay to win, but from what I’ve seen the vast majority of public servers, excluding a few popular ones such as Hypixel, are pay to win to some degree. My main basis for pay to win came from the ability to buy unbans, something which a lot of people in the community hate. I’m sure if you dig further you could find other instances of pay to win such as in the server store.
The DDOS part comes from something I read around a year or so, where apparently someone who owned a smallish Minecraft server with mini games or whatever similar to munchy claimed he was approached by Bad to remove those mini games, with him threatening to ”be able to bring it down”. He could’ve been lying of course, but many people were saying that it would make sense as at the time this happened munchy was apparently “dying” and this sort of tactic wasn’t uncommon. I cannot for the life of me find where I read this, and I believe it could’ve been on some discord server I joined back when Minecraft was getting popular to see what the hype was about. Again take this with a grain of salt since there is no reliable source and the guy could’ve pulled it out of his ass, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true because such tactics have been done by servers before.
Regarding his and skeppys videos, yes I was referring to the griefing ones which were basically just an intricate advertising ploy to get kids to join the server with the premise of meeting Skeppy and Bad of something.
The issue of corruption isn’t straightforward by any means, and I was mostly referring to internal disorganization and lack of punishment for trainees fucking up along with high ranking members only enforcing the rules with some members and having “favorites”. Then again this happens with basically any teenage staff team as you have mentioned, because back in 2014 or something when I decided it would be cool to be staff on a Minecraft server the higher ranked staff basically held all the power and if they broke a rule no one could do shit.
With MunchyMc, when a player is banned they're sent to the purgatory server where they can earn an unban by breaking 12000 stone blocks. The purgatory server is frequently completely unmoderated, so with a hack client you can earn an unban in less than a day. So as far as bans go, Munchy isn't p2w.
On prison the way one pays to win is just buying shitloads of crates and selling the rares, but that won't get you that far unless you have literally thousands to spend and nothing better to spend it on (and there
has been people like this), or you actually have the skill to use money and items wisely and survive outside, and even if you do, you're probably going to be targeted by groups because everyone sees ingame purchases and knows who the p2w players are. In earlier maps there were peace passes, which completely disabled pvp for 5 minutes. These initially were very underused but later became a staple of the server. However, people would buy them and sell them ingame, allowing non-p2w players to get them.
On Kitpvp, which admittedly I know a lot less well, you can buy kits, but if you can't soup and you can't refill, it doesn't matter how much you spend. Kits used to be able to be bought with ingame tokens, and these days free to play players can rent them for a fairly low ingame cost. The kits are (usually) fairly well balanced, with the one that received the most recent update usually having an edge. All in all, while having p2w elements, it's a lot more playable than most other servers of a comparable size or status. Skeppy's server, for example, will have free to play players going up against prot 4 diamond in prot 1 iron.
Now that story about Badboyhalo seems a lot more likely than him actually ddosing. I've mentioned before, and it's probably obvious to most people, but Badboyhalo is kind of autistic. If someone was ripping off a gamemode Munchy had developed like Wool Wars, I can totally imagine him being possessive and making vague threats about "bringing it down". What I can't imagine is him actually doing that though. At most I imagine he probably wanted to sound as if he meant ddosing, but meant just talking shit about their server. In any case, it wouldn't have taken long for BBh to realise that bothering with a tiny ripoff server with likely no active playerbase harms him more than it helps him.
As far staff selectively enforcing rules... similar to pay2win this actually a lot less of a problem then you'd expect. Staff
do have favourites, but they're almost frustratingly paranoid of the accusation of bias. Most staff, however reluctantly, will punish their friends. The only case I can think of recently where players connections with staff were used to evade punishment was after Alyssa got muted for ddos threats, and was later unmuted by the console, and when a friend of Awsamdude/Alyssa abused a glitch to escape being killed outside and his tempban duration was reduced. That's not to say there isn't corruption on the staff team, but it's usually more lowkey stuff like info leaks of upcoming changes to the game, or using /tp perms to teleport your team outside somewhere remote to test items
I've been hearing something on Twitter about Dream admitting to faking his viewer count to get into MC Monday [his first "big streamer event"] does anyone have a source for this? All I can find are vague Tweets that aren't helpful whatsoever.
Background: MCM requires at least 2k viewers on average to get into the event, Dream allegedly botted those viewers to get into the event.
Interested in this source too. I have no doubt this is true, because Dream was real desperate to hit the viewer count on the day of Minecraft Monday, he came into our groupchat and begged us all to watch... Which I did. Literally the only reason I ever made a youtube account was to watch his minecraft monday stream and sub to him.
As far as I remember he got around 300-500 viewers during the event. Way below the cap. He'd never streamed before, so there's literally no way he could have even applied to be on Minecraft Monday without lying. It was no big deal at the time, since they'd already snuck BBH and a6d into the event without Keem kicking off. I think the week Dream played is the week Keem started getting pissy about small streamers.