Mineplex

Mineplex is a Minecraft minigame server. Mineplex is one of four Minecraft servers officially partnered with Mojang Studios, the developer of Minecraft.[1][2] Mineplex is currently co-owned by Caleb Applegate.[3] As of mid-2016, Mineplex had millions of unique players monthly.[4] At its peak, the server had around 10,000 concurrent players at almost any given time,[5] and broke a Guinness World Records record on January 28, 2015 for having 34,434 concurrent players, the most on a Minecraft server at the time.[6]

Mineplex
Developer(s)Mineplex LLC
Initial releaseJanuary 24, 2013 (2013-01-24)
TypeMinecraft server
Websitewww.mineplex.com

History

Mineplex was founded and created on January 24, 2013 by Gregory Bylos,[7][8][9] known in Minecraft as "Sterling_", and "Spu_". The server is among the oldest Minecraft servers that are still running to this day.[7] The server received large increases in player count after YouTube celebrity CaptainSparklez's uploaded videos on the server.[10] In 2016, the Dallas Mavericks partnered with Mineplex to create Dallas Mavericks World, a minigame for the server. According to a news release by the team, it will allow players to compete in building competitions and play a basketball minigame in a full-scale model of the American Airlines Center. The minigame was launched on the server in the summer of 2016.[11][4][12][13] In Guinness World Records 2016: Gamers Edition, Mineplex was listed as the most popular Minecraft server network, having 34,434 players on the server at once on January 28, 2015. This record was lost to Hypixel the same year.[14] Mineplex's popularity has been declining since its peak years, and now averages around 3,000 players simultaneously.[15]

Features

The server's main feature is its various minigames, specially customized and heavily-modded multiplayer maps with different objectives.[16][17] These minigames provide winnable gameplay mechanics to the sandbox game.[18] They are divided into categories such as Classics, Arcade, Champions, Clans, and Holiday minigames. To pay for the server and its development, Mineplex sells in-game cosmetics and special features to players.[7]

References
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  4. Akopyan, Manouk (May 1, 2016). "Mark Cuban Explains Why The Mavericks Are Mashing Up With 'Minecraft'". AListDaily. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  5. Master Builder 3.0 Advanced: Minecraft Secrets and Strategies from the Game's Greatest Players. Triumph Books, 2015. p. 50. ISBN 9781633191884.
  6. Guinness World Records 2016: Gamer's Edition. Macmillan. p. 115.
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  8. Stuart, Keith (June 24, 2014). "Minecraft: how a change to the rules is tearing the community apart". The Guardian. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
  9. Marinconz, Steve (June 17, 2014). "Why People Are Mad About Minecraft's New Changes". Kotaku. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
  10. Matt Weinberger (May 20, 2016). "Mark Cuban explains why he plays 'Minecraft' with his kids". Business Insider.
  11. Kurt Schlosser (May 24, 2016). "Mark Cuban calls Minecraft 'intellectually engaging' as his NBA team creates new game with Mineplex". GeekWire.
  12. David Humphrey (May 19, 2016). "Dallas Mavericks joining computer games world in Minecraft". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
  13. Wermuth, Adam (May 18, 2016). "Dallas Mavs Partner With Minecraft Server to Engage a new Generation of Basketball Fans". Dallas Mavericks. Archived from the original on December 6, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  14. MacGregor, Jodie (December 20, 2018). "Hytale is a Minecraft follow-up that remembers the minigames". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
  15. Minetrack https://minetrack.me/. Retrieved 24 April 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. Wiltshire, Alex (September 15, 2015). "The Future Of Minecraft's Biggest Servers". Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
  17. "The best Minecraft servers". PCGamesN.
  18. Huntermann, Nina. Now to Play Video Games (illustrated ed.). NYU Press, 2019. p. 280. ISBN 9781479802142.
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