Last edited on 19 August 2016 - 10:36 AM by Jahmyr

I posted this here because, well, General Discussion is the place for "anything related to Badlion or Minecraft," but if any staff feel this doesn't pertain to either or than you can go ahead and move it. This also isn't intended to be advertisement.

Late October, 2012, a pvp Walls server (in fact the first ever Walls-styled server) called "MCTheWalls" was founded. It attracted many folks to competitive Minecraft, as most came from skyblock servers or just singleplayer worlds, and had no idea why you would ever try to gather resources in fifteen minutes, watch some fancy walls drop, and go ahead and invade other people's spaces and start killing them. They latched onto the concept pretty quickly. The server progressed at a healthy rate, attracting many new people to this new style of pvp (and one of the only styles, soup was the only major one back then.)

Early in 2013, MCTheWalls felt like it needed an expansion, to accomodate and entertain the numerous amount of people that were now playing The Walls. (they had expanded to Team Walls)
They hired a couple of developers to assist the owners, and thus, renamed their network to "Mnecade" and spawned "SuperCraftBrothers."
The game was an instataneous hit. The network population was sitting at a mere hundred or two hundred people on a good peak, then found itself deluged with swarms of thousands of newcomers, catching the news of SCB from their friends, eager to try out the new gamemode for themselves.
And it was a hit, for a while. The owners introduced donator ranks, VIP, PRO, and eventually Legendary. I was one of the people sitting immediately queueing up to buy these ranks. Who cares that they cost $25, $60, and $100? This server was staying to last.
Million-subscriber Youtubers such as SSundee, SkyDoesMinecraft came on with extensive SCB series, bringing along their less notable but still valuable friends such as CavemanFilms, BajanCanadian, Bodil40, PeteZahHutt, SetoSorcerer, JeromeASF.

Network player counts reached a booming 15k+ players constantly. Felipe and Pablo, the owners, could almost be seen bathing in cash.
MCTheWalls was just as prosperous. Every couple of months, a massive, massive Walls tourney was held. They could've rivaled even OCN's tournaments. The most formidable, untouchable Walls clans would form teams of six, duking it out through rounds and rounds of pvp taken to an intensity and level that no server has ever step foot in to this day. Hundreds of people took part in these, thrice as many spectators present, cheering them on. Each tournament brought four to six hours of pure excitement and intensity.

2014 rolled around, to a good start. In the middle of the year, the huge updates promised a year back, the huge "Summer Update," the update bringing forth dozens of significant changes, didn't come out. Our faces fell. We all returned from our trips in the Key West, Florida, Hawaii. SCB stayed the same. Many other "super, super, super duper fun!" updates were cancelled, or that was what we assumed. The owners hadn't had said a peep about anything. In fact, the last time one of the two was online was December 2013, from what his Enjin profile said. A couple of my friends and I exchanged nervous look but said nothing.

The end of 2014 brought an uproar on the forums. The "randoms" and others that didn't log onto the forums were still merrily playing on the server, oblivious to everything. On the other hand, the forums community were demanding answers. Why hadn't the great Summer Update roll about yet? What became of the MCTheWalls revamp? Where are the changes we so heartily agreed on months back? We glanced at the owner's profiles. One was still back in 2013. The other remained silent.

2015 was the struggle in reality. The admin in charge of MCTheWalls resigned and no successor was appointed to direct the game that had kick-started the server. Every other thread on the forums was a rant scorning the owners and demanding immediate action. Player levels, for the first time, plunged instead of climbed. On a peak time on a weekend, barely three thousand players could be found playing Minecade.
At last, both owners finally logged on, but it wasn't to launch an update or bolster our morale. They locked every thread that contradicted them, deleted the posts that bothered them more. They began purging the forums of the people that had badgered them over and over about the obvious problems, forum banning them and shutting off their voices. Donators and non donators alike, they were tossed to the ban hammer if they were found with one contradictory post. They refused to change and told us that they were writing a huge script for the things they wanted to do. At last, a Developer leaked information about how Minecade was faking the player count by altering some codes within it's system. He was promptly fired.

This was my final straw. I messaged every admin that hadn't resigned and told them I shouldn't have paid my $25 for this worthless server. I said the new bullshit excuses of minigames the owners had added (PinkMenSlap, PizzaBattle, SG) were pathetic. I rampaged the forums, spamming every thread in sight and reach with profanity and language, in fact so much that it took days for the entire admin group to delete all of those posts. (In retrospect, that probably wasn't the best type of protest for me to do…)
I watched from my banned account the eventual collapse of Minecade. It was all over. The owners' "huge script" were bullshitty changes that were so intentionally made to just make it look like they were doing something. It was like they were extending their arms in front of the door to exit the server, and reassuring everyone, "No, you don't leave. See? We're doing something."

MCTheWalls tourneys had stopped, mainly because their was no admin director and over three fourths of the Walls community had left.
I stopped paying attention to Minecade after mid-2015. I was fed up, exasperated, angry, miserable, all because of various reasons. The server that had introduced me to PvP was in a state of desperation. Instead of taking my, and hundreds of others of advice that would've revived Minecade, they cast it aside and banished us from the forums. (I received an ingame IP ban for my mouth on the forums as well) I moved straight into Badlion at the beginning of Season 10, to play it consistently, to try and forget where I really came from.

Sometimes, it's funny, because the lack of updates to the server have preserved the original feel. The SuperCraftBros lobby is still what it was in summer of 2014. Even after updating to 1.9 and 1.10, the now standalone MCTheWalls server has remained there, forlorn and forgotten, free of players and games. It's still 1.7.10, one of the many things the players begged to keep.
Maybe the last act of the owners was to grant that one wish.

Posted on 19 August 2016 - 12:32 PM

Well written and insightful :) Great message and warning to the entire Badlion community.

Posted on 19 August 2016 - 12:42 PM

not necessarily a warning, but you can definitely take it that way

Posted on 19 August 2016 - 01:11 PM

At least I'm not the only one that transitioned from Minecade to Badlion.

Posted on 19 August 2016 - 01:13 PM

Danteh also came from Minecade to those who are curious.
When he changed his name to Dant"eh" many Minecaders did as well. That's the reason I had the name "Maajeh." (cringey but whatever)

Posted on 19 August 2016 - 03:02 PM

Thats so well writen noice, and the moral of the story applys not for just minecraft but political and other kind of stuff xd

Last edited on 19 August 2016 - 05:37 PM by IronicGolems

Cool story, and I hope it will help some stubborn Badlion players realize that the recent and coming changes are for the best, even if they take some getting used to. I really appreciate how carefully you wrote this!

Posted on 20 August 2016 - 02:08 AM

I read all and I used to play on the server aswell It was much much more fun I forgot the IP one day and didnt search about it.

PinkMenSlap was my game :D

and @Jahmyr there was like a cos and robbers game correct? I used to play that ALL DAY

Posted on 21 August 2016 - 10:58 AM

.

Posted on 21 August 2016 - 04:21 PM

I'm gonna log on with 1.7 and see if it works lol

Posted on 21 August 2016 - 06:17 PM

so was that skga.me or was that something different

Posted on 21 August 2016 - 06:30 PM

different things, sky was admin on minecade tho

Posted on 21 August 2016 - 07:13 PM

i remember at some point half of the minigames on skga.me were affiliated with minecade

Posted on 21 August 2016 - 07:34 PM

i think skga had a version of scb