Why did Mini Skywars fail?

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Hey guys, welcome back to another Skywars video. We're here playing some mini today. A little bit of a little bit of a rare one for me, but yeah, I'm a little I'm going to be a little bit slow cuz I'm I kind of just woke up, but yeah, we're actually recording at a normal time today as well. I know. Um I think I'm actually just going to get all the chests here.

[00:00:26]Um sorry, Devon.

[00:00:33]All right, let's see.

[00:00:41]All right, get our pearl and our uh hot bar here.

[00:00:45]Anyways, yeah, playing mini.

[00:00:48]So, I kind of want to talk about Mini a little bit here and why Mini Skywars failed because I think it's kind of an interesting discussion to have because points a little a lot to um just where Hypixel has gone as a server, right? Like the direction that they've chosen to go down.

[00:01:13]Um, and I think that direction is primarily focusing on money, right?

[00:01:21]Actually got quite a a few good players in this in this match here.

[00:01:28]Um, but yeah, um, that's kind of what I'm talking about, right? Money. That's that's what makes That's that's what like that's the only thing that Hypixel cares about, guys.

[00:01:46]Remember that Hypixel is a business.

[00:01:50]They're not your friend, right? Like and and this is the thing. I'm a I mainly study business in school and like I work in a business like all that stuff, right? So I understand, right? Hypixel wants to make money. That's that's what they do. So, they're going to prioritize what makes them money. And at the moment, their primary uh source of money is obviously going to be uh a game mode like Sky Block, right? That's what they're going to be focusing on. That makes sense. Like, if they're not I think it would be a little odd, right?

[00:02:26]Um I think I think that would actually be even more abnormal. But yeah, a game like Skywars or or even Mini, for example, Skywars has like 200 players. That's nothing from a business standpoint, right? It's it's not it's not great, right?

[00:02:52]So, with that being said, why why did many Skywars die? Well, it's because this game doesn't generate enough I don't want to say hype.

[00:03:03]Um, I don't know the right word for it.

[00:03:04]It doesn't generate enough money for them to care about fixing the game. And that kind of goes in segus into my next point is that this game has been broken genu like like a lot of the aspects of the game have been broken for too long for them to um genuinely care about uh the game state. And this and this goes with any game by the way. I I've said this I think I said this in a previous video um regarding mini. This is my take on mini Skywars guys. But if you leave a game with issues right if you spend time, money, and effort developing a miniame and you leave it in a a sorry state, right, with bugs, all that stuff.

[00:03:49]Well, what do you think's going to happen? the game's not going to it's not going to do as well as you might think.

[00:03:58]Eventually the game will die off. Like obviously first of all there were tons of bugs in in mini like um I forget I think I think the athlete bug was the most prominent obviously being able to walk up to people and one-shot them is a very very prominent like that is ridiculous.

[00:04:26]All right barely winning there against elapses. Great player. Holy [ __ ] man.

[00:04:32]Um, you know, I kind of figured I could tank that one because my armor was pretty solid there and I had the sword. So, go ahead and pearl on this last player.

[00:04:45]I think it's a bot. I'm not going to I'm pretty sure that this is a bot. Okay.

[00:04:49]Yeah. Um, but a very prominent bug like that, right? That basically just completely ruins the game. It makes the game It It It makes the game not the game anymore, right? We're We're not playing Mini Skywars. We're playing All right. We're playing Athlete Wars where we're just go We're all picking one cat.

[00:05:06]We're all trying to one tap each other, right? That's not That's not what mini is. And this game, here's the thing. I think that this game could have been a lot more popular than it is. It could have like maybe like 50 players right now, but instead, right, it it it got plagued with bugs and um yeah, people people don't want to play buggy ass [ __ ] right? That's that's that's what it comes down to.

[00:05:32]People aren't going to be wasting their time on that. And that's why regular normal Skywars gets a lot more like relevance, right? By the way, it's so weird playing with speed, too. I haven't played with Speed 2 in a while.

[00:05:48]Um, at least in Skywars. It's It's a little bit of a different experience. Are we going to just kill this bot in every game, man?

[00:05:58]Yeah. Mini Skywars is in a sad state because, you know, they didn't prioritize the right things. Now, I'm I'm I may be forgetting a bunch of bugs that are that are in many, right? But I think the most prominent one is that athlete bug, right?

[00:06:12]which I think in all honesty uh has basically killed all the well for me it killed all desire to play and I think that goes for a lot of other players as well. I don't think I'm an exception or anything.

[00:06:27]I think a lot of players are in the same boat as me just not wanting to play something that is so um poorly looked after if that makes sense. We have a lot of items. All right, let's just filter out here. I at least want to be able to get this chest here. Oh, what are we doing?

[00:06:47]Okay, we we are actually playing against like AI. I I'm I'm not even joking.

[00:07:00]Like, all right. Okay, maybe Skywars is better, guys. What the [ __ ] All right. Um, yeah, with that being said, what do I think about this game mode? Honestly, my thoughts kind of are are very similar to what I used to think about Mini. I I made a video about Mini, I think a while back, back when the uh update came out.

[00:07:27]I think that video is still actually on the channel here.

[00:07:33]And yeah, my thoughts are basically the same. It's very fun. It's it's it's an easy quick Skywars game mode that you can just like, hey, if you want a quick game of of uh Skywars, this is what you'd play, right?

[00:07:46]Because the games are fast.

[00:07:49]Theoretically, they they should be quick.

[00:07:54]Um, and yeah, I didn't know noobs actually knew how to do this.

[00:08:05]Okay. He doesn't like the fact that I'm hitting him. Okay. Um he doesn't like the fact that I'm just punching him to death. Okay, that makes sense. Honestly, I wouldn't like that either.

[00:08:17]But yeah, no. Um basically just a quick and easy game mode. And here's the thing that I like about MIDI the most is that it's actually like balanced, right?

[00:08:27]It's the the the most attractive part about this mini game is that you can hop in with any of these kits and you actually feel like you have items, right? And that's attract. That's a awesome feature. Like that's what I want every game. every game I want to feel like I'm loading in and you know the game isn't actively like trying to uh make me feel like I'm going to lose you know like every game of normal Skywars you actually feel like okay I can lose this game because it's like a coin flip right it it really is a coin flip do you win do you lose you don't actually know but many actually feels fairly consistent in the grand scheme of Actually going to go ahead and play pretty aggressive here.

[00:09:23]I want the chest plate there. Go ahead and pot up. Why is this guy like taking off all of his stuff?

[00:09:36]He's going hound, but he doesn't have his boots.

[00:09:40]Like where are your boots?

[00:09:46]Okay, I'm like literally in the the easiest cues of all time here. Maybe this will be a little bit entertaining for you guys. I don't know.

[00:09:54]Another very attractive feature about mini is that your stats don't actually like matter because they don't actually calculate deaths.

[00:10:04]Now, what what here's what they really need to do. They were on the right track with many. I I mean that genuinely. This is like theoretically one of the most casual game modes because um they don't calculate your stats. They don't calculate death. They don't calculate loss, right? So, they were on to something, but they forgot to remove games played. So, people are still able to calculate your stats. And that's the problem, right? is that no matter what, if we don't remove um you know stat like basically stat uh calculation, it's it's still going to become an issue no matter what.

[00:10:47]I don't even know what this guy is.

[00:10:48]Champion. All right. Yeah, I'm not even going to switch to the sword. I have uh pretty high confidence here that we can win. Okay.

[00:11:00]Yeah, I think I think if they applied that mindset to every Skywars game mode that the game would be like like Skywars would be in a much better state. There would be a lot less hackers cuz people I feel like Yeah, obviously there's still going to be people that are going to cheat for uh um for wins and stuff like that. There's always going to be cheaters, guys. Remember that in any game mode where you can hack, there's going to be people that are using it to uh gain an advantage over others, no matter what. That's that's an undeniable fact. Um, but I think it would help. I I genuinely do. I think the reason that cheating is so bad in Bedwars, for example, or um a game like Skywars, it's all because of stats, right? All these people care about um their KDR, their win to loss ratio, their win streak in bed wars, for example, right? All of these stats are super important to people. So yeah, I mean wins are important too, but these stats are something else, man. They they can directly like quote unquote prove that you are better than someone else in a way. Yeah, that's kind of my general thoughts there.

[00:12:14]I think I got my point across. I think I think mini is a a very good concept of the game mode. It just failed because they didn't care. And that that's that's that's kind of where it is. That's kind of that's that's a that's a TLDDR.

[00:12:29]Obviously, if you stop caring about something, it's going to fail. Like, if you stop caring about school, you're going to fail. Stop caring about all these like random things in life. Stop caring about work, your performance is going to decrease, right? All these like I can go and name like 50 different things that that applies to, right?

[00:12:55]Okay, hold on a second. Let me heal.

[00:13:03]All right, we got him. And yeah, as I was saying in that previous round there, like if if you stop putting effort into anything in life, like it's going to fail. And I mean, they they let the problems in mini fester. I've I've literally in this recording session been one shot by basically like three shot by an athlete multiple times. That kit is still not fixed, by the way. Admins are watching this. Um, athlete is still not fixed. So, uh, make sure to look into that.

[00:13:35]one heart. He should be dead.

[00:13:40]Thank you, sir.

[00:13:45]But yeah, anyways, this game mode is fun. It's just such a shame like if if athlete was uh fatly was addressed, you know, this game would be I mean pretty I think most people most of the good players in this game would be playing mini because it's just fun.

[00:14:03]like you actually feel rewarded for playing the game how it's meant to be played, right?

[00:14:10]Which is kind of an interesting concept.

[00:14:12]I I know an interesting concept. But yeah, I think that's going to do it for this video. Pretty simple one. Um yeah, mini mini is a great game mode. It's just it's very unfortunate. That's that's what happens, guys, when you let things fester for too long. I mean, I quit. the athlete bug was a thing and it is still a thing, right? If if they had addressed a lot of these bugs on the days that they were happening, right? Like let's say let's say that the first day that the athlete bug came out, they put out a hot fix to fix it. Bang.

[00:14:51]instead of losing well over one like 200 players mini, it could have maintained itself with maybe like a 100 players, right? Like the the mini Skywars could have more uh players than the normal queue right now, but that's that's just how it goes, right? If you don't if you don't fix things, this is something that Hypixel really needs to start doing in general is doing hot fixes. Like, and by the way, by hot fix, you guys know what I mean by hot fix, right? like that [ __ ] should be fixed within a week to two weeks max. The longer you let [ __ ] sit there, negative bugs impact the game.

[00:15:30]The longer the game is or the easier the game is going to die. Like that's that's what I'm going to say. Especially when it comes to Hypixel. Um obviously the server is not doing as well as it used to nowadays. So I'm hoping that they take that advice with a little bit of a little bit of uh oomph, right? like maybe we should start fixing [ __ ] Like yeah, you can fix [ __ ] but if you wait a year, people are going to be gone already. So yeah, that's that. People don't stick around for for slop. That's that's the that's the that's the main point of the video. That's going to do it. Leave a like, subscribe, all that [ __ ] I'll see you guys in the next one.

[00:16:07]Bye.