DEV BLOG

Hello everyone -- and welcome back! We've got a lot of information to post here. Let's talk Beta plans, our communication with you all, the Bedrock feature/Mojang partnership, and other things.

BETA LAUNCH

To start, welcome back to the beta! It's been a long road to the starting line for us, but we finally feel as though we've got the network foundation to a point where we can put forward a closed beta experience for you all! We want to be clear, all our team's work thus far has gotten us to the beginning, but there's still a long way to go. This is a work in progress. Polish is important to us, and we appreciate your support as we continue to build, grow, and update. But that being said, we're proud of the progress we've made.

There's been a lot of chatter around how long the Beta will run for. We would like to leave the network up as long as the player count is sufficient to maintain a good customer experience. While the Beta is running, we'll be implementing lots of hotfixes and quality of life changes as we work towards subsequent releases. Big examples of these will be on things like our friends/party systems, founder's bundle cosmetics, and new game releases.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Let's level with each other for a second: we were all part of the old Mineplex community, and we all know that communication was a consistent problem many of us voiced back then. When we acquired Mineplex, we made a huge commitment to getting our games up and running. While that's been priority number one, we know that communication remains an area of growth for our team. Moving forward, we are taking steps to improve this by partnering with another Mineplex veteran: Nuclear_Poptart.

Together with Nuclear, we're going to work on streamlining our messaging across all channels. We owe it to you to speak with confidence, in one voice. We're basically a lightweight indie dev team at this point, but we're committed to being better than we have been. On this note -- thank you to Billy, Necrai, and others who have stepped up to bridge communications in the interim as we've navigated this process.

BEDROCK

Moving on to our Bedrock players out there, let's talk about the featured server spot and our status on re-activating Mineplex's partnership with Mojang. Re-establishing our partnership with Mojang has been a key priority for our team since they reached back out to us around this time last year. We are continuing to work towards being featured again and believe that our Bedrock presence will be critical to the long-term success of Mineplex.

While we have no other details to share at this time due to the ongoing nature of our conversation with Microsoft, our team and infrastructure are ready to go. Bedrock players who have bought access to our Alpha/Beta will notice a set of exciting new features when logging into the network this week! We are very excited to re-establish Mineplex as one of the biggest Minecraft related brands in the Bedrock space once again in due time!

TL;DR

We'll keep it brief here and wrap this blog up. From here on out, expect more communication, live updates to the network, and a few new games as we continue to improve on the network experience! We are open to all feedback and are very excited to continue this journey with you all! We've come such a long way, overcome many hardships, and found a way to bounce back with all the odds stacked against us! We'll build this brand back brick by brick one step at a time!

Thank you all so much for your continued support. To our players, our studio partners and our team -- you made this possible. We certainly would not be here without you.

We love you all, thank you so much.

The Mineplex Team