September 2012
The month I joined Meepcraft. I was 13 years old. Just a kid, having fun playing minecraft, using my own mind to explore and to satisfy. Building and constructing houses. Learning the ways of the trade. Attempting to master the art of PVPing. Every single day. After school, I would rush home to check all of my farms, my grinders, and how our town was holding up. It was a routine.
May I add, the group of players I grew up with in the 2012-2013 meepcraft community had similar routines. We all loved it. (If you are my friend, you know exactly what I'm talking about;))
Back then, I was also notoriously known to PVP. A lot. I would attempt to kill every single player until I was rewarded their own head; forming allies, Clockwork...all that jazz.
2013
But then MeepNetworks came about...I received my Ultimate rank from Cooleysworld for 40 million meebles...I believe. One month before the reset. I really lucked out, but I still feel bad for Cooleys. During the reset, I was taking a 1 month vacation. When I came back, I was dumbfounded. But my motivation didn't stop me. I kept playing after the reset. But this time around, it was different. Many of the easy ways of making money were removed. (/jobs) But there was a brand new way of making money...zombie pigman farms. I remember attempting to make a 32 chunk zombie pigman farm, but it never got finished. I wish I still had pictures of it. I lost motivation in the process. I decided to take a break from meepcraft.
2014
After a couple of months. I tried to rejoin. "banned for duping". I did indeed ask for proof of me duping, and indeed it was given: After I lost my motivation, I was messing around, taking a scroll through possible glitches and exploits. I saw that there was one that worked on many servers, so I attempted to do it with dirt. It failed. However, that simple action dismantled my clean record, my perfect reputation...I was extremely disheartened. Not at the fact that I attempted to dupe, but by the fact that people believed that I was doing it for wealth; people obviously wouldn't believe me if I said "I was only testing if it worked, if it did I was going to report it". But it is what it is; if you don't know about how a person truly acts, you should never completely trust them. I accepted the facts, since I had already lost motivation with meep.
End of 2014:
6 months passed. I decided to check up on meep again. Wrote a simple ban appeal, immediately accepted. I was delighted. I began to play again semi-actively. But this time around. There was something missing. It just didn't feel as fun as it used to. Those "good days" were over. I attempted to keep branding meepcraft to my thoughts; trying to find this lost motivation. Fuzzlr came around and asked me if I could help with making the beta of the Creative World. I joyously accepted to help. Building on those plots gave me some inspiration to keep going, but it was only temporary inspiration. After I finished, my discouraged self returned. "What else is there to do?"
For the rest of that month, I decided I was going to move to video production and video editing. I tried to make a trailer of the new spawn. My motivation spiked once again...
January 2015:
https://youtu.be/IZi99Z4x3Cc
After I made the trailer, my inspiration ceased once again. I began to play minigames, participating in "meep harmony", debates, etc. Just things to get me through time. Nothing special. Eventually, I gave up and became very inactive once again. I gave all my items away, gave all my profit to mylucky7...I'm sure he used it for the greater good. For the rest of the year I was off and on. Saying "hi" now and then. Lingering in the depths of the lost.
June 2016:
And here we are. Me telling you my journey. And looking at whats happened with Meepcraft getting blackmailed by the EULA, I see things as getting more and more hopeless. It's quite mournful. But here's what I portray from it:
Meepcraft was created back in 2012. That's over 4 years. Eventually, it's going to become boring. Try to play an Xbox/PS4 game for 4 years straight; you will be sick of it! So what do they do? They make a new game! Reset the server, make a few critical changes/updates, restart the process! I view this as the easiest way to revive meep. This is easy to say, and probably not too difficult to do. But will it happen? Probably not.
Meep has gone through numerous phases, changes, updates, downgrades, patches, and people. The people who are the "core" of the server have been around for a very long time...and they are surely not motivated enough to do such a task. Is this a bash on them? No, any person would feel the same exact way after so long. It just gets old. The nostalgic feeling will never come back to the presence. Eventually, the server is let to slowly rot, like a tree. And the new EULA is the chainsaw to the tree...or what's left of it. And the people that are watering the tree have stopped; they've been given new priorities, new jobs, new hobbies. The hopeless tree is doomed to fall. But then again, it's just a tree, isn't it?
Though my example I provided may be a little extreme, it indeed is similar to what's happening. Much of this community is gone. But there are still a select few that keep helping the server; watering the tree...they are destined to go down with the tree...they will not accept their fate. And that is good! It will keep the server up longer, and something good may possibly happen that could sprout revival across this "tree". Respect to those people that still stand by the server to this day.
However, I do not see much hope anymore in Meepcraft. I've been here from the beginning, but I've never seen anything like how ghostly the community is like today. Compared to a year ago, Meepcraft is a ghost town. It breaks my heart. But we all have to move on. Part of my motivation loss is the fact that I have new challenges that I face: Getting a great ACT/SAT score, getting good grades, facing 6 AP classes, boosting my QPA, and now I will be applying to colleges. I'm not 13 years old anymore.
Times change, so do people
But...I am very happy of what Meepcraft has given to me. It's been a large stepping stone for me. But more stepping stones await ahead in my life, as they do for everyone. I was even was debating on whether I should even be writing a final thread..."is it even worth it?" But, from all the time I've spent in the past, I concluded that I should at least give condolences. I will never forget this server, how it has brought me through hard times, how it was once a critical point of my life, my childhood. I will remember all of my meep friends. I'm grateful to have been blessed with such a healthy yet strategic and competitive environment known as Meepcraft.
It's been real
Good luck to you, your future, and new challenges that you face in your life.
Let your motivation fuel you through hard times, and success will be just around the corner.
Thanks for everything
Best Regards,
~Sarge926
