I don't know about you, but when I was really active on this server around 2016 (maybe even 2017) I could hop into Eggwars match after Eggwars match. The map I played the most was Teaparty and was always full in no time. Now I can barely get 10 people in a survival game. And Eggwars is dead. And yet they decide to split the Eggwars community even more with "Experimental Eggwars" ... where would they have gotten that idea?
So playerbase they must be losing a lot.
> partnered with microsoft so they have to be doing something right
Good for them, but that honestly doesn't mean anything. For example I could set up my own brand mark shop or restaurant too, but that doesn't mean I will be successful. And I'm guessing if they partnered up with Microsoft it has nothing to do with the Java edition, but with the windows 10 edition and the Pocket editions.
Anyway, 3000 players online seems a lot, but divided between all kinds of games and different gamemodes (and inactive players) it simply isn't enough. Go through all the games and look at the signs...
I think you are pretending the problem is worse than it is, the server is for sure not dead.
teaparty is a bad map anyway because it is hard to bowspam people off the island so all the tryhards just win, it is a bad map.
anyway the real reason people don't play eggwars and skywars as much is because slowly but surely we are getting rid of the tryhards (worst type of players), that is why we got rid of "no projectiles" mode in skywars because the tryhards would always vote for them. Now that the mode is gone, the tryhards will all quit, so for a while yes, maybe there will be less players, but later on the player count will grow again and this time it will grow without tryhards and have a happy friendy community instead :)
also i got many friends who play double eggwars it is fun and removing a game mode will not decrease players! you are complaining about a gift the cubecraft devs gave to us? so ungrateful!
also waiting for games is not hard, you just have to be patient. heck there are developers who work hard who deserve a rest but they refuse to rest and instead work hard everyday, but you are complaining that you have to wait a little long to play a game? that is disrespectful to the developers and staff and builders.
i think cube is fine as it is and does not need to cut down number of players for a game to start as people will just kill farm :)