Idea The Server is Extremely Broken...

As a member of the server who has played for a pretty long time (2+ years), it has always made me upset about the lack of significant changes to the server, more specifically fixes or just upgrades to the key gameplay mechanics of mostly WarZ. This server used to be amazing, with 600 or so players on it daily (summer 2014, when the new map came out). Yet with such great potential for a lasting server, the manangement of Brawl has only managed to make it a worse and worse server. Even a glance at the statistics can see that 1.8 was the start of the decline of players, yet there was not one change that truly fixed all the bugs that came with the server, and no more updates to boost the player base. The key factor that contributed to the huge spike in players on WarZ was the new map being released. Even though this is absolutely crystal clear to anyone who wants to look back at videos of pre-newmap and post-newmap can see that the map being released completely spiked the playerbase to unheard of levels. This being said, the management has yet to release a new map in 2 years, and the server of WarZ and Brawl in general does NOT need all these new servers. Take Counter-Strike for an example. It has exactly 3 main games in the franchise (1.6, Source, and Globally Offended), and has managed to be a consistent shooter franchise, recently becoming a major e-sport, even getting its own tab on ESPN. So why is it that Brawl can't see that War and WarZ have a TON of potential? Simply put, there is and has always been interest in the servers, with just the proper servers not being there. Despite the high demand for Minecraft gun servers, there are only a few and so those pretty much dominate the playerbase. Unfortunately, War and WarZ are no longer in that category anymore. As I said, it's not that the interest isn't there, just the servers were barely touched for years, getting more and more broken and less up-to-date, eventually reaching the point that the servers aren't really unenjoyable. War is so repetetive and broken (guns like the minigun, no recoil, etc.) it's too hard to understand how to play for people to widely accept the gamemode. WarZ is honestly more messed up than War. The server is in shambles right now with the EULA update, with whitenames not being able to fight at all and previous lifetime buyers just coming out top in all 3 of the fights there are daily. The server has always been extremely pay2win, making it pretty unlikeable for new players who want to be like the "pros" but can't but a rank, and a server like this simply cannot attract widespread players at the state it is now. Making changes to it to favor spraying or lighter comboing would help, as newer players could grasp the gameplay mechanics easier and faster without having to invest huge amounts of time to just turn out to be mediocre around the dozens of other players who can kill eachother by just spamming Spas-M10, a combo that makes this server completely stupid considering it doesn't favor skill at all, which absolutely kills servers. No, skill has always been outweighed by money, as being a whitename was and still is completely unejoyable if you want to play WarZ for what it truly has developed into, a server revolved around large teamfights and comboing. Even though WarZ has evolved nicely, changing from a survival zombie server to a PvP server, the same cannot be said for the people running it. Instead of making changes to remarket the server as a team based PvP server maybe set into a post-WW3 setting or something, they keep trying to force the idea of zombies and teamwork down our throats which frankly cannot work with the limited mechanics of Minecraft. Instead of improving War and WarZ, the development team continue to make unsafe and not smart decisions with where the server is going by making mostly failed servers (Wildwest, likely the new MOBA game) that will get nowhere and just waste money. And if the dev. team really wants to invest in these new servers, a better idea is to possibly invest in paying YouTubers to showcase the servers which will CERTAINLY boost the playerbase and at least keep it to where the servers will actually have people to try out the new servers. At this pace, there simply won't be people to play the servers, and all the devs. will just have wasted a year of their lives coding servers that won't get any recognition. So I suppose I'll finish this very long rant of by saying this to all the Brawl higher-up staff: you have the skill, the talent, the amazing coders that certainly can make cool servers. You also have the interest in the genre of servers. Now all you need to do is put the puzzle pieces together, but the question is will you do so before it's too late?

 

I think it definitely marked when the player count started going down, but I'm not sure because I don't have access to the statistics. By the way, no subscription