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Minecraft Survival Games is a multiplayer battle royale gamemode, loosely based off of the 2012 Hunger Games movie. At one time, it was by far the most popular Minecraft gamemode, but in recent years, the playercounts and interest in it has dropped HARD. This video talks about why it happened, by discussing the history of Minecraft SG (remembering servers like LBSG on Minecraft Pocket Edition, and content made by BajanCanadian and JeromeASF), the state that Survival Games is in currently (by showing what SG on The Hive, Hypixel, and Mineplex is like), and talking about the future of Minecraft Survival Games. All of this commentary, over some Hive Minecraft Bedrock Survival Games background gameplay and some Minecraft RTX cinematic clips.
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0:00 Introduction
1:01 History of Survival Games
3:26 The Downfall
5:22 Survival Games Currently
8:13 Uncertain Future

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@PotatoPie25 Год назад

YO - some clips in this video were from my Twitch channel. If you want to watch me play Minecraft live, drop a follow! Hope to see some of you there :) www.twitch.tv/potatopie25

@Ahmad-pd7fq Год назад

👍

@wsgcuh Год назад

OKAY

@Smg_MC Год назад

great video man

@UltimateDizer Год назад

Potatopie25 why the Hive StarWars so different from Astro StarWars?

@wsgcuh Год назад

@ひで get help

@JitR Год назад

I remember playing Survival Games in Lifeboat when I was in elementary school, definitely was one of the greatest experiences. After seeing Hive with Survival Games I was hyped and I liked it so much I maxed the game in 23 days, one of the first games for me to play every time made whole loads of memories and I'm forever grateful for how Survival Games was to my Minecraft life

@rmannerd9426 Год назад

Lifeboat Survival Games man... I remember my brother and I would always play it together and try to get to deathmatch and then fight to the end. Good times man good times

@fabulousfacade1598 Год назад

Lol hey JitR

@zPuffu Год назад

Fr tho

@giggymuun Год назад

Lifeboat used to be so good, dunno what happened.

@colemannino7443 7 месяцев назад

The funniest thing is I just got done playing lifeboat survival fames

@rustydawgt Год назад

I think it was big RU-vidrs who kept the game mode alive for so long. In the Java world where captainsparklez partnered with Mineplex to make tons of SG videos, once he stopped the gamemode died not too long after. You don’t see too many mini game Minecraft RU-vidrs anymore

@sp0okeyz Год назад

Hi verified 👋

@zen7even 11 месяцев назад

Minecraft is a dying game 😢

@iceyapple Год назад

Hive was pretty much the last hope for SG by adding in never-before seen mechanics, but the playerbase quickly dwindled as people just moved on to other gamemodes

@Azure9577 Год назад

Galaxite chronos

@NimrodPepega Год назад

Hove overrated bruh

@anderstauschristensen9184 Год назад

@@NimrodPepega You cant say hive is overrated when they were one of the most popular sg servers

@NimrodPepega Год назад

@@anderstauschristensen9184 no one plays sg bro

@KaptainOW 11 месяцев назад

@@NimrodPepega SG was one of the most popular games for years, and some servers were filled with thousands just playing. It dying now doesn’t mean it wasn’t huge

@arepaimproved Год назад

Breeze Island 2 map in the beginning 😭 I still enjoy it at times. But amazing video man! Still makes me feel very nostalgic and well... old 😅

@S-mores 11 месяцев назад

This truly was the best era of minecraft, both as a player and a viewer of minecraft videos. Not just SG, but all content alike just felt so much more lively and unique. I think you're right about attention spans having changed drastically and I feel that it's impacted both how viewers enjoy videos as well as how creators make them. It's sad really, I wish things were more how they were a decade ago

@springyboi Год назад

Survival Games was easily one of the greatest games I’ve played especially on Lifeboat. I remember watching a multitude of Bajan’s videos including the music video that he was in. It honestly hurts to see SG dying out despite all the memories that were placed onto it

@LuigiChannel50 Год назад

It's interesting, I was playing on nearly all of the remaining SG servers mentioned in this video up until their removals, So I was able to witness their decreasing player counts first hand. Lifeboat and Java CubeCraft were definitely the most blatantly obvious ones, Cause Lifeboat prior to revamping the gamemode was extremely laggy and that caused more and more people to stop playing altogether, And Java CubeCraft was already declining in players server wide so it made sense that their SG gamemode had next to no playerbase. But the most bizarre case for me was definitely MCCentral's decline, Cause that was the dominant SG server on Java for nearly four years straight, And it definitely had one of the more active communities compared to the rest. But then it completely fell off the face of the earth once one of the major updates revamped the hub era and reset everyone's stats back to 0. (It also changed the kit system and made everyone have to pay for them again). After that it only took a few weeks before the playerbase died out completely. A bizarre, But in hindsight understandable decline. So now all we're left with is Bedrock CubeCraft, The Hive, Current LBSG, and on the Java side of things Hypixel's Blitz SG gamemode... And that's basically it. Why exactly this happened I will never know, You could probably attribute the shutdowns of MCSG and Badlion to its early signs of decline, I also have no doubt that Lifeboat's terrible server updates played a massive part in its decline, Not to mention the rise in gamemodes such as Sky Wars, EggWars, Bed Wars, and UHC that undeniably stole its position of being the most popular PVP gamemode. I don't think it's impossible for the gamemode to have a resurgence in popularity, But it'll more than likely have to be updated in some kind of fashion cause its clear that the traditional SG gamemode no longer interests people these days. But whatever the case may be, I'll still remain as one of the only people with a current long running Survival Games series, Cause I still can't get enough of it somehow lol

@S-mores 11 месяцев назад

Along with SG, other og mini games like spleef and the walls have also been unable to evade time's arrow. I miss adventure maps and old mod packs that added depth to the game in a totally unique but still fitting way. Something about old MC was just different. It was simpler and yet that almost made the game feel more fulfilling. The community felt more whole and it was like everyone was discovering together just how far we could push the limits of what was possible of being achieved in this basic sandbox cube game. Maybe it's because of how development changed after microsoft took over. Maybe it's because the game just got old and enough of the mystery was uncovered. Or maybe many of us just aren't looking at it with the fresh eyes we once had. Whatever it is, even if watching it all slowly fade away has been more than a little bittersweet, I'm still happy to have grown up with this game and this community and am grateful to have been able to have had so many memorable days playing and watching other play this game ❤

@Raxtus Год назад

Survival Games are the main reason why I tried playing Minecraft servers in the first place. I remember watching hundred episodes of Bajan Canadian hunger games videos and he was the main reason why I tried to play servers and try PvP in the first place. LBSG is the most played server I ever played since Minecraft Pocket Edition is a thing and it was my go to Minecraft version to play hunger games.

@stalwartscarf4292 Год назад

Congrats on 80 k one of the biggest hive yt.And u will definitely hit 100 k if u try

@Stoffies123 Год назад

It's quite the tragedy, I remember watching people like Bajan and Lachlan playing sg and it will always be one of the most nostolgic game modes that I enjoy going back to every now and then

@moneyourself5954 Год назад

I was a sg main(about 1 year)for most of my hive career. To be honest, it saw the death coming, ever since i quit a year ago and i cam e back recently i realized how much it had died, it had gon to barely hit 1k but now its just sad. I wish i could have my old survival games back but you know i guess that it is what it is, very sad death

@DarkChaosMC Год назад

I think the game was mostly fueled by content creators, once they leave, everyone leaves.

@Crab540 Год назад

It is sad because I remember watching the videos while trying to re-create the Maps

@Kitten5x Год назад

I play this all the time and its so sad to barely ever see a full lobby

@churchay Год назад

As a Survival Games OG, starting in 2012 I miss playing so much. The peak for me was 2013-2015. I believe with the new movie coming out in November there is a chance to make a comeback but map building teams will need to appear out of the blue somewhere. There is also no incentive with rewards anymore and attention spans are at an all time low due to YT shorts and tiktok. I’m happy to just be apart of history others will only know about and never got to experience. Going on 26 now so I truly grew up with the gamemode. (Java edition player) - Churchay/TheChurchyHD

@justenergymc 6 месяцев назад

bro i remember seeing your name back in the day wow. i miss the SG days

@Biggaboo Год назад

I remember lifeboat on pocket edition and it had a grass area with cobblestone walls surrounding everyone with signs to join survival games

@xtrinity0680 Год назад

I used to play cubecraft sg alot back in the day. So kinda sad to see it die.

@jackboy317 Год назад

I've been on Hive bedrock since 2018, I Remember when they first added SG, it was a huge deal, and I Played it constantly once the armor system was balanced out. But now seeing the SG npc being moved to the arcade, away from the main hub, was super sad to see, this game was pretty much the only pvp gamemode I played. and to see it crippling today is really upsetting. You put the game-modes history into words that I Couldn't find myself saying, great job on the video PotatoPie25. o7 to the once best PVP gamemode of Minecraft, Survival games.

@GeorgeCool. Год назад

If Survival games dies just remember it will never die in our hearts ❤️

@xBqrs Год назад

It’s sad to see when Survival Games is dying, it used to be the first gamemode I play aswell and I’ve lost my motivation to play in there nowadays.

@PocketYouTube Год назад

“nothing lasts forever” 😓

@milohummon8753 Год назад

Gotta love that tactical campfire 6:55

@freddiemedley5580 Год назад

That was a great video, however, I think you left out an important point with that being Survival games is called Survival games not craft royal. So any revamp of Survival games shouldn't get rid of it's Hunger Games origins. Apart from that I do agree with you on how it needs to be changed to make it more relevant again. However, I'd do it slightly differently to the way you suggested. With my changes making it more strategic and exciting at certain times. So my changes would be to allow the tributes to form alliances, this would be balanced as eventually the team would have to turn on each other as there can only be one winner. They could also add a quick chat feature to allow them to communicate more easily. To have there be less food in the arena, so the tributes have to gather food, instead of just being able to survive off food found in chests. This would also make alliances break apart quicker, as there likely wouldn't be enough food for all of them. To shorten the grace period to 10 seconds, in order to make the opening minute more of a blood bath. To make it so all the best loot spawns in the corner copier and that there's less chests just randomly around the map, as the alliance that takes the corner copier deserves the best loot, due to them having to share it. To add deadly parkour and puzzles that give really good loot, this would be a cool idea as it would make the game longer, while not making it drag as well as giving people who don't want to go into the corner copier a better chance to win. And my final suggestion is to replace the boring storm with natural disasters and unique hostile mobs that push tributes back into the Corner copier These changes would make the game more entertaining as it would force players to strategies more, while also giving the game much bigger highs, with the opening bloodbath and natural disasters/ mobs pushing them into the corner copier

@CrispyMC Год назад

Rip SG, thank you for being the staple of Minecraft nostalgic classics

@Aupixa Год назад

2012 - 2015 Back in Middle school i always played minecraft survival games i watched videos of it religiously

@MettoMinecraft Год назад

one of the first game modes I played when I first tried multiplayer

@arne2229 Год назад

Good vid! Maybe put the music a little less loud tho.

@peterlewis2178 3 месяца назад

You didn't touch on the primary 2 factors that I think really caused the death of Survival Games. The first, was the fact that most servers shifted away from the core survival games experience that made the game fun. By adding all kinds of unique mechanics and items and things, they really just bogged it down and made it too flashy and complicated. Then you can add on to this the fact that most servers went pay to win, where people could buy kits and things to give themselves a gameplay advantage. The pay to win aspects, as well as unnecessary extra gameplay and overpowered loot tables, made the game feel like less of an even playing field, and less rewarding. The second thing is that hacking became the norm. Servers didn't really have the resources to properly fight against people using hacked clients, so it reached a point where it was virtually impossible to play a survival games match, on any server, without getting eliminated by a hacker. This made it basically impossible to actually play, and definitely destroyed the fun. There may have been survival games modes in some servers back in 2020, but I haven't been able to find a true, classic, enjoyable survival games experience since years before that. If I had to guess, I'd say that the experience that was possible at its peak was essentially obliterate within a span of a few years. I never stopped wanting to play it, it's just that it stopped existing the way it used to exist. And I'm sure that was a big contributor to why the popularity of it died, because people simply couldn't play it anymore.

@chillbrian4179 Год назад

I just wanna add that 6:14 i wanna add that mineman still has SG and is updating it and games still fill really quick

@awesomemangoes8072 Год назад

This video brought back so much nostalgia!

@Meowyt841 Год назад

Since i join the Hive I've never see Survival Gamemode go up , kinda sad to see Survival game slowly dying and soon might be gone forever

@littlegamergr3965 Год назад

Hey potato, random question but what ray tracing pack do you use?

@slayer63_ Год назад

I miss battle mode it was very good no op items you can turn on voice chat to see mad players they had so many maps but now legacy edition is gone some players try to recreate it but it's not the same

@iAmWik. Год назад

We need you to post more we miss you :)

@kxlmn1 Год назад

Ayooo pp25, love ya videos

@SiDjack Год назад

Never actually played survival games although I did play the battle mini game on lce which was based on survival games. It was so fun and I am so glad I found a recreation of it

@WaaWaa-sg2eo Год назад

Hey, so about your comment at the end of the video about SG not likely returning that is most likely false, since in late 2023 a new hunger games movie is supposed to come out. I think this has a lot of potential to bring back survival games.

@jadoo258 Год назад

I was hugely obsessed with SG growing up. On Lifeboat, Survival Games was my go-to gamemode. Whenever I wasn’t playing, I would watch Huahwi’s MCSG videos. I always wanted Lifeboat to add fishing rods and flint and steel because of Huahwi. I made some friends online thanks to Lifeboat. Their numbered server system made it really easy to play with a friend or host a big meetup (shoutout to sg13). If you entered a game early, you had to wait a while for it to fill up. It was funny whenever you saw players trash talk each other before the game began. With the influx of PC and console players, it became increasingly difficult to win a game as a mobile player. Lifeboat’s pay to win/play features didn’t sit well with the community either. Survival Games got boring, so I quit multiplayer Minecraft for a while. When I came back, the Bedrock server scene changed completely. Lifeboat fell off and the Hive became the biggest server. The first game I tried was SG, and while I enjoyed it, I couldn’t help but notice that something was missing from it. It was a sense of community. With a player count in the hundreds, I expected everyone to know each other, or at least the higher leveled players. In the games I played however, everything went by much quicker than I remember in Lifeboat. The queue, the fights, the time until deathmatch, requeueing, nearly every aspect of Hive SG was going by at a much faster pace that there wasn’t even any time to write a message in chat. I think because of this reason, as well as the points you mention in the video, contributed to SG’s decline. I doubt SG will ever make a comeback. It’s a gamemode as old as Minecraft itself, and if the big Minecraft tournaments couldn’t bring SG out of the dead, I’m afraid that nothing will.

@DaBruhMe Год назад

i really wish hive added interactions with games like maybe a interactable switch that opens a hatch or smth

@Discombobulated_myopic_potato_ Год назад

i saw your YT channel in some comments about a meme calling you Lego hair and they said you still had the Lego hair so I came to check

@gothicgolem2947 Год назад

Your attention span theory is interesting however I would point to how popular egg wars is on cubecraft and that game can take absolutely ages all tho I guess the difference is u can find people to fight easier in that

@PotatoPie25 Год назад

nah that's a fair point you make, i didn't really think TOO hard about the attention span thing, it just made sense in my brain

@Shorkie Год назад

Bang on the point, SG has little hope and as it goes never say never but I do worry about the future of SG, and unless a sudden nostalgia wave hits and everyone returns then I doubt it will live on for 5 more years, but the only way to find out is to see how the future goes

@LDVXDFRR Год назад

Just like survival games,treasure wars is next to die since I noticed that there used to be 1000+ players everyday and now it is around 700-970

@ItzE1usive Год назад

YOU ARE BACK WITH FAITHFUL LESS GOOO

@Arbythor Год назад

Pretty sad how it down falled so fast. I still enjoy it but it can get boring when you can find a player

@WaffleLover-my1hi Год назад

My first multiplayer experience was survival games on a server called playmindcrack. Literally playing that over and over again was how I got better at PVP. I still very vividly remember my first ever win. I was hiding on the map and the other two remaining players killed each other.

@Jonathan-iy6ug 11 месяцев назад

I didn't know about this, I just continue playing sg on lifeboat without knowing this

@hi-fj7dk Год назад

2015-2017 were the prime days of survival games you cant even lie

@churchay Год назад

Nah 2012-2015

@user-oe7oe2fl8q Месяц назад

2013-2015 for me

@BnG_Gaming Год назад

The way I think about it is that a lot of things go out of fashion such as the rubix cube for example but then will come back out of no where and become big again. So who knows? Maybe sg will make a return in a few years, or maybe it won't. We will just have to see.

@Luke_Skvwalker Год назад

I used to play lifeboat sg in 2015, I was so bad but so was everyone else, that was so much fun

@Quickfulness Год назад

I remember spending hours, upon hours upon hours playing an old SG server called MCSG - thanks to Huahwi - he was the reason I was so involved in PvP. This video brought back almost tears. One can only dream that the days will be as simple as how they were a decade ago.

@tonyveryrare Год назад

i absolutely believe it will make a comeback, along with servers in general. prolly not right away but maybe in the next few years. possibly even longer. could be ten years down the road and make a huge comeback kinda like what happened with pokemon cards.

@sapras76 Год назад

PS3 and Xbox360 versions had an interesting take on survival games basically trowing you in a much smaller map than normal sg and having 16 players teaming allowed

@jetpond7904 Год назад

All the old console versions have that mode. It’s just called “battle”. I still play it every now and then when I’m bored, it’s fun.

@retrix8015 Год назад

I miss BajanCandian and ASFJerome I miss the Nexus and the FridgeMC I got older and found MCCentral vanilla survival games with the OG maps but it got taken down. I wish I could play a couple more games when it was booming.

@lightviper6995 8 месяцев назад

im sad i just started getting into this game when my cousin showed me it on lifeboat and its not that popular like he said and its super fun but rlly challenging because almost every time i think im safe and organizing inv someone just hits me

@Cube_Nerd Год назад

I'm currently working on a survival games video, it takes a different perspective, and expands on the idea that it is borring

@Stiky_Piston 11 месяцев назад

Hive SG is one of my favorite gamemodes ever, and my favorite map is of course SG4

@InsaneOrbitzz Год назад

That intro and video was so emotional I want to cry

@PotatoPie25 Год назад

😭 me rn

@HeySepticol Год назад

1.19 content is immensely growing with more and more people making content out of it. A 1.19 SG would be great and it would actually bring it popularity.

@Tacet137 Год назад

Server on 1.19 is just unplayable lagfest

@computerboss9548 2 месяца назад

Apologies for the necro but I have made an entire survival games server based on that

@Smqrf71 Год назад

R.I.P Survival Games :CC

@LDVXDFRR Год назад

2:I remember that treasure wars had lots of sweats and I mean lots of them like and entire lobby of hive plus members and now there is less and less every day

@tygrenvoltaris4782 Год назад

Broo i remember playing on sg lbsg net 2015 and it peaks at 20,000. JFM and adventuregamingHQ are my go to eatch during those days in 2015 and 16. Miss the octopus lifeboat junglish lobby

@Brisolo32 Год назад

SG is actually pretty popular here in Brazil, but it's more focused on soups and it isn't called Survival games instead it's called Hunger games

@lazerplayz17 Год назад

I remember the early days when Im always playing on the lifeboat server just to play survival games

@kaanzapkinus Год назад

Great content thanks but Im suprised that you've skipped the part MCSG tried to come back 2-3 years ago and failed. Also In turkey we have got 2 big cracked pvp servers, named sonoyuncu and craftrise, there are still 100-200 current time players in day. but it used to be thousands a few years ago. sadly survival games is dead right now. But i liked the idea of battle royale, with little touches hypixel could bring the survival games and hype together. one day i hope...

@notedrop9136 Год назад

Sg was always a classic. But they say, when one door closes, another one opens.

@Epacana5 Год назад

The thumbnail looks much better then the netherack ring one

@baldingrecedingbowlcutmull2313 Год назад

I also think a lot of it is that Huahwi didn't just quit... he switched to Badlion UHC. So everyone started playing UHC instead.

@NicoTheCinderace Год назад

7:10 I could hear your phone buzzing there.

@Pizzas Год назад

The original Battle Royale

@aocxe 11 месяцев назад

Here's the reason: Sg has no easy way for unskilled players to win in sw/tw you can hit ppl into the void if you lack pvp skills, in sg theres no way to do this so mobile and controller players always get beaten by the one pc player in the lobby and have no way of actually winning.

@champdeadly23 Год назад

Nostalgia

@fnordy Год назад

What a great video about one of the greatest gamemodes of all time. FeelsStrongMan Clap

@fabulousfacade1598 Год назад

Survival Games is now on their own gamemode

@devisals 10 месяцев назад

MCSG was my childhood bro I miss it :(

@TheLegendOfRin Год назад

SkyWars is still basically just sg but above the void. Survival Games aren’t dead, they’re just in the skywars era and skywars can be found practically everywhere, and MCC island has Sky Battle which is also practically the same thing.

@skeletonarcshorts Год назад

I’m going to miss survival games

@R.O-Man-MB-A-See Год назад

Why did you change the thumbnail?

@larsjarredspeetjens Год назад

It will probably get a boost with the new Hunger Games movie later this year. If they decide to kill the game I will most probably stop playing Minecraft since whilst I do enjoy the other games SG is a game I come back to every time

@rbi6 Год назад

Server review vid?

@SquareMuffin452 Год назад

Honelstly I started playing online mc around same time so nostalgic

@7e1ix Год назад

Those were the days!

@xGqlactic Год назад

Ngl, survival games was the first minigame i ever played on a minecraft server. Yea it was a lifeboat and being real i didn't like it at first but got used to having fun with it a lot back then. I remember camping out near the ships on that pirate map, as i was on pe and i sucked. I eventually started playing other Minigames and lost interest in SG. And now I'm here in 2023. Where i have absolutely no interest in minecraft minigames and I'm a Cod player now, guess that sg camping from 2018 is still alive here in rebirth island haha.