Hypixel Q&A Stream 9-10-2016

Transcript from Hypixel Q&A Stream on 9-10-2016
https://beam.pro/Hypixel?vod=264125
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**TOPIC 1: EULA**

They're talking about EULA stuff rn
they are saying mojang has a general lack of knowledge of how servers work
and setting up changes without fully understanding
trying to make a one size fit all system
The other importna thing to bear in mind this is all happening in mc as a whole, java side
there is a general decline in java side
it's just gotten smaller
it's easy to say we're not alone
we have lots of diff networks contact us
lots of drama with blacklisting
there's lots of rapid eula changes every 3 -4 weeks
get another email from mojang
we're not protected from eula by being biggest server
we just don't talk about it very much
we call it the hypixel defense
they do a completely different implementation
there's a server that did voting rewards because we did erwards
well hypixel is doing rewards right? so this server started a sale to vote more
and paid rewards for voting
so they put these outrages voting rewards
talking like 1million coins they vote
and buy more tokens they vote
this is where the system is broken
rather than dealing with this one person screwing up
mojang says hey nobody can vote
instead of dealing with 1 person they deal with everyone
including those doing things right
and this is one of the most worrying things they said, like if we give you a booster on facebook, it's determined paying with time
they are saying if you are paying with time you can't reward the user with that
honest, it's not great
and the currency situation
and we don't want to talk about horses but
the second example is um
thye now no longer allow you to use a custom currency
like hypixel credits
credits and stuff like that so
the reason credits added is for ppl to convert money to custom currency
and they only work on costmetics
with credits you could get beautiful awards asame as others
but now they say not allowed
'alright it's okay to get rid of credits and we were already thinking to get rid because so many currencies already
but it's fine
say, it just shows how wrong the EULA is going
instead of helping us
you know what they say
but this is minecraft, you can't add a new horse, you can't add another particle trail you just can't do it
taths'why we made companions
hey you can sell cosmetics but here's 0 tools to do it
it's the standard, in Clash Royale, games like TF2, the rate of playing players is high, and the reason we need to keep it up is to pay the bills
why is mc so expensive
it was not designed to be on this scale and desont' work on the cloud
PokeGo is on the cloud so it scales infinitely
but MC doesn't
you need Bungee servers etc.
and it's a pain
Mc is just not made for that
make our own code edit mc code
it means we're stuck inside, we have to buy contracted hosting for 1 or 2 years
were in a fragile position for finances
and we have to deal with EULA
some months we don't make money
and other times we just have to make up for it
so we have Sales
people going back to school and that sutff
basically the EULA is fine but it needs refinement
it needs more options for us to survive
if a month with no money, that means EULA is doing it
a lot of time spent doing cosmetics instead of games and minigames andupdate
if there was no EULA skyclash would already be out
and updates to all the games
but now we need to put time on cosmetics to pay the builds
some of the devs have faimlies and kids and we have to make sure they are ok
if we keep getting bashed on the head
everything is stable everything is fine
then one little server breaks something then all the networks get an email and it's a broken process
they don't understand the intricacies of how servers work
maybe later this year, after minecon, hopefully they change their approach
they should sit down and talk with up to make it fair for the user
EULA is great on paper it forces owners to make money correctly etc.
but there needs to be a feedback process
there is no official feedback process
funny story time
We got an email four months ago
the email said, not going to say who but Mojang enforcement team, it said we have to reduce the speed of horses
they asked us to reduce horse speed in lobby
they asked to make pets not fly in lobby because they gave transporation advantages
and that sort of stuff is like EHHH
it shows the disconnection between EULA and servers
if they talked to us and explained that lobbies transporation is cosmetic
we explained it but they still insisted on change
this is a bad decision and you're not taking feedback
as a last note on EULA topic, important to remember Mojang is trying to do best on Users but there's really horrible scumbag networks out there selling ritual drugs and owners talking about stuff they shouldn't say
this is one of treasons EULA happened
there's tons with less than 1000 users that are great
but EULA prevents them scaling
how do u survive with 35+k players online
we got lucky some ways
we were first to adapt to EULA
honest truth if a server came along, I don't think they could grow to 5000 player now
you can't even sell sponsorships anymore
brands can't do that anymore
it comes down to people doing stupid stuff screwing everyone else over
instead of dealing with idiots they deal with everyone
not a good scenario should change


**TOPIC 2: THE HYPIXEL GAME**

ANOTHER FUN topic
One thing about EULA it proves that we don't control the game
don't control income or what we're doing
to that extent for the last year and a half
I'd say for the last year and half we've been working designing and preparing and working on our own game
it's quite an ambitious process
at this point it works
it's impressive and we've shown it to some people and everyone is on board and it makes sense for us
like why would we do a game
because we have a lot of creative people
and their creativity is limited by mc
with our own game we can control EVERYTHING
engine client UI etc.
well it's important to realize that the days of Java are numbered
and every other day we get more networks saying what's going on what are we looking towards
without revealing to much it's not just the game for us, it's for all the others too
it's a game that all the networks may be interested in
that various different people would be interested in
to get to that point, the way we built our game was with that in mind
other games are like don't touch our game etc.
but for us it's a diff approach
other companies want 100% control
but we want to empower the community
say we have 20 devs on our comunity
but we release this game with all the tools
we don't have 50 devs we have 50000 devs
if we have this big complex thing that isn't playable then if someone makes a mod no one is playing
this isn't a small budget game
it's a large budget game I've been saving up for for years
hypixel must be rich
but i'm trailing on my money for this project
it's an honor to work on this project, and 25 ppl working full time
and we have designers, game designers, artists, full time music guy, animator
crazy stuff
we have full time people working on this
even blizzard when they make new games, 50 ppl on new games, with us with 25 ppl on the game hopefully you guys will see the quality
trailer will be this year
sometime this year
if youa re a server network or a minecraft community member
thinking towards the future
put this in your mind
it's going to affect ppl in a positiove way


**TOPIC 3: Minecon**

NEXT TOPIC
MINECON
the official announcement: no official announcement
if we're doing something we can't talk about it yet
stay tuned
if you're goign
good question about the game
it doesn't need a big PC
we know our users don't have crazy comps
yes it's going to work on Mac
our team is using mac
hehe


**TOPIC 4: EU NETWORK AND TRANSFER PACKET**

the next topic
EU NETWORK
Simon can you talk about it
Sure
so it's um
network has a lot of challenges
before we can make it happen
MC doesn't owkr on Cloud system
to go on an EU netrowkr
it requireds more money and investment
and contracted servers
if we order 30 servs
first of all
it creates an issue if we invest money we get locked for 1 or 2 years
and EU servs more expensive than US
and it needs to work with data base in US
it's important to understand, other servers have EU networks but that's crap
it doesn't work
the experience is garbage
you split your community in half
you think and plan it but it just doesn't work
one community eats up the other
but if you look at EU mineplex
it's pretty much dead
US is more people
people just don't want to connect to another server
it's unplayable too little people
it's like the more games you have
it'sharder to get these games going
with 45+ games at low peak
it's hard for players to start playing
if we split the community even more
it's bad
our plan would be first
we need to transfer back in and we need Mojang's help
moving people between IPs
in mc we have to use Bungees
we have to move people from one bungee to another
and this needs a transfer packet
with this at low peak, when no games starting
just dump players to the other US server
you can move people around
that means scales
at night not many going around
if there was a transfer packet
it would let us switch IP addresses
which you can do inside the same data center
but with this we could have Chinese, Japanese, brazil, servers etc. whatever it would work
we could have shared lobbies if we had transfer packet
any countries would be in the lobby
but joining game you go to one server
the lobbies would stay in the US as who cares about where lobby is though
game servers will be wherever we would want
if we ever get transfer packet, interesting thing is they didn't say no...
if they can't do it we can! haha
they mentioned security concerns but there really is no concern
onfe you're connected to our network we could show you anything anyway
it doesn't matter what network chooses to show you
if we could work with them Mojang network issues would  be gone
it would skip escape disconnect connect for users


**TOPIC 5: OLD VS NEW GAMES**

NEXT TOPIC
Old games Vs NEW Games
when you release a new game
some people post on forum
yo you ned to update THis game
when you pudate this they say update this gam instead
why adding new game when this is broken
so first thing is
not every game update is on front page
metroholic last week or few days ago...
there was a walls update
that was a massive bug fisx
not everything is immediately obvious sometimes
you have to have balance
older game updates - make the established community happy
new games - new community
need to maintain the balance
we have to look at the numbers involved
we've tried lets talk about uh say
blitz got updates last year(?)
every so often iusers go up 10-15% then a few days later it goes back down
updates have never invigorated the game but one exception is UHC
so much time involved it turned into a new game
we need to do more bold moves for updates
lets think about say uhhh
mega walls right
a season system where all the kids there would be like season 1 for mega walls
everyone is lvl 0
every season everything resets
that would be a BOLD move
not hard to do
but that's kind of updates I think we should do
older games use old code and it's a pain to fix
sometimes I would rather just have a new game
why spend one month on paintball updatse
instead of making paintball 2
this is what we like to do
push the limit do new things
we tried new stuff with skyclash(?)
with Warlords we pushed the limit
with resource packs
resource packs are very badly optimized
every mc update breaks resource pack
they change file structure in 1.11
so you can't use capital letters
so they took 30 hours of work to fix all the names
this was just super stupid
experience
the way mc is just win10 edition is great, but Java version is crap at rendering 3d
in WL low polygons makes FPS go down 40%
simple polygon sort in code is just Not good
we're gonna do if we do more rp games, there'll be less crazy stuff
blocking dead or pixel painters was simple
it was minimal to make game work
now we have new maps and stuff
there's new stuff we could do
new games vs old games
it's a lrage topic
the answer.. balance is the way
doing a ton of updates
if there's 45 games and you play less, we have to update lots of games before yours get touched
there's updates and new games, 'we'res my update?
we have to make sure we're still doing new stuff
if we kept listening to these topics
skywars wouldn't be a thing
we kept giving mega walls  update here and there
then we released skywars
in less than 7 - 8 days
it was made in ~8 days
boom
viral
at some point 50k people online
holy crap top 5 steam
we've been here for 2 years
we' would still be in top 5 steam
list
compare that to No Man's Sky
we have more players than NMS
but everyone is talking about NMS
but we have more players ahnd we've been holding it for years
"someone - i'm not sure your games are gonna work
because you have no experience in game industry"
but I'l tell you our games have palyers
the thing that would make the game work is people watching this stream
the hardcore hypixel fans are the most important people


**TOPIC 6: RANKS**

next topic: Ranks
I think last uh
what do you want to discuss
so
first and foremost
we're not happy with currently MVP+ gets etc.
everything has gotten worse because EULA
had to take away credits
mojang made us take away a ton of other stuff
it's important to make things worth it
some say ranks have no value
but it's hard to make them valuable
one of the ideas I had
spoiler here
skywars
we found a way to make MVP+ choose the map to play
the reason it's limited, on a technical level, if everyone picked a map
it would be crazy
limiting to MVP+ makes them better
more valueable
our most popular skywars game.. the game is too non-donor friendly
it doubled our costs
because so many games
if you noticed in skywards, starts with 14 players
ends with 2
we're fine but the game itself
there's no cosmetics
there's nothing for ranks
we want to make current ranks have more value
so we're gonna give ranks map choosing etc.
but we're not going to go too ham on it
skywars is a pretty pure game
we try and approach it by having one exclusive thing for VIP, VIP+, MVP etc.
hahaha all the admins are in the hottub
real sausage party hypixel
what were we atalking about
oh yeah ranks
so to pay bills weh aev to find ways to get people to spend
we have to make people who are ranked or planning to rank get value they want
comment - lot of people get ranks just to support server
if you're one of thse people tahnk you very much
main source of income
thank you
but we have to make sure
you got something for it
we're providing a service
a professional service with benefits
so expect cool stuff there
leads to bigger discussion
we want to avoid adding more ranks
but maybe in the future what we need before that is current ranks have value
lot of u remember before EULA we said we wouldn't have ranks but
if we ever add more ranks
they would be supporter ranks
wouldn't add much
few things but not much
the thing is a lot of the MVP+s who play, playing for 3 yeasr, etc. haven't bought anything for those years
they're not interested just happy
if they renot interested in mysteryboxes it's fine but we have to make sure we pay the bills
if mojang would..
you know how we used to sell coine mulitpliers
if mojang lets go x2 or x3 it would solve the entire EULA discussion if they put limits on it
now that we have more freedom and time from cosmetics that would let us do more games
maybe we could do a poll
is that something they would be interested in
think we can
can we do a vote a poll
if we can make MVP+ better can we add a new one would community be ok
"can we except guilds updates"


**TOPIC 7: GUILD UPDATES**

Next topic: Guild updates
guilds are important
the community  like they use guilds to communicate
it's a channel for friends
it's important for us to make it more appealing
trying to find something here..
lost my notes for guilds
first of all cryptkeeper stand up
ook at me
ok so cryptkeeper is working on guild update now
but he should be but he's at this darn dance party (oh hypixel private house)
we should talk about guild fortreses
they think about updates, fortress, guild futures
at first we wanted to add a guild update to add more features
but we figured
the guild fortresses need to happen
so we're working on how to introduce it
and how to attach it to a gamemode
need to make it a thing
this gamemode/guild fortress is only going to be for guilds
gonna add perks to guilds
world of Warcraft guild system with bonuses for guilds was amazing
the coins aren't used very much for guild yet
with update they will be used
imagine hey everyone gets 10% more coins beause guild
we would have a bonus for 10% more coins in skywars for guild to buy
trial ranks etc.
couple ranks coming to guilds
chat slow
lot of little features
UI revamp for guilds
we want to push guilds more for perks
most active players are in guilds
we want to get more ppl in guilds
but we don't want to go too far with guilds
if ppl want 10 v 10 internal tournamets we want to make sure they can do that
we want to make some games more competitive, imagine guild challenge mode like teams sort of thing
we're still discussiing
example idea:
imagine two islands, floating islands with broken bridge in middle
each island has your guild fortress
as a guild you can update ur fortress over time with more wins
blacksmith is updated for more damage
unlock archer trainer
more damage
as a guild you work together to update fortress
your progression
a floating island and a bridge 10v10 15v15 guild
would be easy to do
by next week we could have that
lets not be too optimistic
it's not like a game like smash
took 4 months
this is easy to do
but everyone has to be active about it
every update makes ur fortress more epic and huge and etc.
Quick Fire Part:
Hello crypt
crypt is here
'hello'
we just finished talking about your topic
crypt: nothing to add
well get off teamspeak lol
it's still on paper now but as soon as quality of features and perks for guilds with guild coins...
guild coins are gonna be used for features and perks
but a new currency for guilds for the GAMES


**QUICKFIRE QUESTIONS**


QUESTION 1. How long does itt take to make new mingame

> depdns on game
speed UHC, skywars took less than 2 weeks
game like smash or warlords
took over 4 months
crazy work artists money
lots of dev research
smash was redone 3-4 times
if we're not happy with game we redo it
it depends


QUESTION 2. Are you making profits, is server risk of shutting

> Yes we're making profits no we aren't gonna shut down
what we're doing is making sure we can survive by investing in gaming studio
making games
doing what we do and whwat we love
now it's just minecraft saying minecraft etc. but we've learned so much
as long as players, there will be hypixel
what is hypixel as a company
it wil be here for a long time
we'd rather put the money to paying a fair wage to ppl working on server and investing game tech etc.


QUESTION 3. Are you going to support more games on beam?

> We did this at first to help CEO of beam
he's a good friend of ours
he was the guy who told us if we need help on day 1 of hypixel, this guy gave us free service for a few days
"i'm gonna help you guys"
we don't have any money so that helped a lot
he helped on tehnical level
matt I love u
it's happy for beam being successful and being acquired by microsoft
and beam is great
stream is instant
when you chat, we can reply instantly
1 sec delay or no delay
it's aqkward to have q and a on others
congrats matt


QUESTION 4. What system needs most update on hypixel

> we already covered
guilds are high priority
stuff like achievement system always has been there, need to fix it etc.
we have so many games
so many achievements
big task
our times is limited
we can only do so much
talk about guild first
I'd like to see achievement become global stuff
easier to add achievements


QUESTION 5. How different network would be today without EULA

> would be very different
we wouldn't need to spend time on cosmetics
and upping the income
all the time saved would be on making updates
we have to spend 50% effort to keep up above the water


QUESTION 6. Do you have any long term views plans on hypixel

> Covered that but we have lots of plans
if and after the game you guys will see when we pots the trailer
in terms of plans
big reason we don't talk about it
say we're not talking about mega walls update
it's not clear
why are we doing this
reason is simple
we have a tendency of making promises we couldn't deliver
ex> blitz tournaments
june 2013
so there was some tournametns plan
but then EULA came in action
and we can't do it anymore
if we make promises on specific updates
that aren't almost done
we're forced to do it
(we have a long memory)
still talking aout guild fortresses
since we announced system, lot of things happened
we had to change a lot of systems and yeah
plan with guild fortress back then isn't the same as now


QUESTION 7. Do you guys accept map submissions or team that makes maps

> Submissions process is complex
gamerules have huge technical requires
9 times out of 100 maps aren't good for this
right now build team, even though no more hypixel build team, our build team is still here


QUESTION 8. What is Project Infinity

> Our housing system, we want to increase what mc can do
so we made housing to split players across tons of servers
Infinity is the same idea for games
the older way how housing works doesn't work too well with combat in gameplay
we adjusted that in infinity
multiple thousand player games
infinity is there for us to expand gameplay
to enter thousand player games etc.
games we've never gone into that we can start with this technology
we can do games never done before
we could have 1thousand player skywars
or paintball
all this is possible
but we want to make sure it is done with a simple game first as prototype
imagine we took housing tech and made it for PVP
but it's not housing but it's kinda like that


QUESTION 9. How did devs learn to code

> they did stuff
they didn't go through education and stuff and uh

as simple as that sounds
they just got on there
started making plugins etc.
plancke got in by his API he made for the server
Crypt, you made hacked clients!
then he joined the light side of the force
basically just screw around with stuff and do things
google is your friend
I had a um, computer science course, and what we were doing was installing windows
I was like yeah
waste of time
when people apply for job in gaming industry, like a dev
what they are looking at
you could have gone to Harvard etc.
if you didn't make a single game
you're not gonna get the job
you have to work on your portfolio
if you send me an application and there's no Blue link
I will close the application
without reading it
if you don't show anything
you don't get hired
if youa re animated or game dev or designer, you could be a designer and not no code (need ur portfolio)
We are also working on housing regarding friendship(?) and stuff
housing system is like a system that scales
so it doesn't use MC or Spigot
housing is funny
it's becoming more popular over time
it's the opposite of other games
so it is high priority


QUESTION 10. How long do we think to make EU server if transfer packet implemented

> Within days
depends on the time
if we're on Christmas we'd be doing other stuff
if they release transfer packet and entity changes etc. that would screw us over
we would have to fix bugs first
1.8 to 1.9 was a nightmare
they worked on it nonstop instead of features and games
boring for us
really hope the next updates won't destroy as much as it did
that's why many networks iddn't change right away
so complicated
lot of work


QUESTION 11. How often do you meet up with devs to discuss company stuff

> weekly meetings
several
weekly for working on server and our game meetings
we have seen when we do weekly meetings
every day improves


QUESTION 12. When will 1.8 support be dropped

> I don't think we will ever drop it unless forced
60% of users still in 1.8
1.9 isn't working for a lot of you
we'd have a few games for 1.9
so doing stuff with elytra
do you guys rememeber the crap storm when we dropped 1.7
that was a tornado
3% of users were in 1.7
when we droped
it was hell opening up
imagine if we dropped 1.8
imagine if 2% of ppl in 1.8 maybe
but right now it's not happening anytime soon


QUESTION 13. Noxy said you care about how fun a game and finished games haven't been released because not fun

> So many cancelled projects
ex. Sky clash
when it started
the game went through many changes
at first it was 1v1
cards could be used for insane perks.
like clash royale
inspiration was clash royale
then we played
and we realized
it's not that great
in game
we went towards game modes like skywars
oh dang this feels right now
same with smash
worked on it 3 or 4 times
at first smash had 6 buttons for skills
thought it was great on paper
but when we played
it was too confusing
same reason we didn't make a LoL type game
doesn't feel right in first person
without control of UI
we had a bomberman game
didn't realease
bunch of codeanem experiment games never released
sometimes devs do crazy stuff and may become a game
I don't remember exatly like we have random games for original games
what was the name of Smash originally, like Vanilla Spice or something
my idea
was the dumbest idea
'Gingerbread'
every new person joining the team is like wtf is gingerbread


QUESTION 14. why is rank/stats transfer not allowed if player proves they have both accounts

> You can't ever prove it
we don't have access to your mc account
we don't know for sure
so we can't let it happen
and it would give players power to sell their account
it would require tons of time for customer support
and drama
so rather not do it


QUESTION 15. why do we ban ppl for verbal abuse

> Difference btwn swearing and verbal abuse
verbal abuse - if i'm in skywars and I go "oh s** I fell off"
versus
going on hypixel and going "hypixel you're s**"
it depends on how it is targeted
we're going to easing off on the swear filter
'damn' is going to be removed from it
don't be a**holes
sometimes we get involved in guild chats etc. when it gets dangerous for the users
#1 priority, protect users


QUESTION 16. How many staff does Hypixel have

> more than 200 ppl
admins probably more than 45 people
46
most of them are full time
half are working on game we're working on
20 something ppl working on mc server
lets do a staff lineup
(admins lining up in stream video on the admin private housing)
PxlPanda: Web dev
working on new game UI
Doctor: Came from another server
step away doctor he came from another server we're not gonna tlak about him (jkoking)
does game dev
Plancke: game stuff, housing etc.
eliseegy: Rendering in games
Tyler: New just joined yesterday
worked on mod
new designer for game
Vinny??: (I forget)
Donperiso: Support emails
Rogue: Broke UHC update and set things on fire
Dark: makes me angry
was supposed to go to university and then dropped out then went back to hypixel
he sucks
Depth: doesn't talk much
does games, updates
etc.
PxlBaker: I chose his name for him, staff manager
came from Multiplay
Yeah
that's some of the admins
and there's myself
46 admins
200 staff
Do we keep going with stream or stop soon


QUESTION 17: Karma

lots of comments on karma
we want to reduce our varies on currencies
but we want to give a use to karma
like reddit karma
but them someone said...ghadfhg
one of way we can deal with this is
biggest problems
some people have millions of karma
and some have 100s
we have to find a way to spend it and make sense
if top 5 ppl got this
top 10 got this
etc.
rewards scaling system
not sure yet
not high priority
karma can wait a bit
maybe a leaderboard
we have lots to do


QUESTION 18: I'm under 16 can I work at hypixel"

no no no no no
lot of MC servers...
biggest scandal is about taxes on mc servers
many servers not conducting as a business
you need valid contracts etc.
we've insisted on that
paying taxes and stuff
so we need minimum age to sign up
most countries limit is 16
you need to sign contract legally
if you get a job offer and want to sign up and go to your mom to sign you in
doesn't work like that in court


QUESTION 19: Why is there not a player council' for every game

we have 45 games so
the Elites, group of players who test and balance games
now they're called Player Council
so we can accept more people
some not top players but important and active
doctor is working on that
so we have channels for each game
don't waste time on crazy updates
has to make sense
lots of ideas are great but may take 2 months
suggestions must make sense
revamp quakecraft! but there's not enough ppl to justify revamping it
when we could make a new game
that works like it
"Why did you remove god games"
it's a way for admins to boost up games
but every time admins join a lobby
they ask can you start a god game
plsplspls
always about it
conversation with players went from talking about updates to can you do a god game
made chat less important
a few little stuff planned for community interaction though
right now not high priority
god games had to get rid of
We'll end off soon


QUESTION 20: Do you pay your builders

yes we do
not as much as we would like
about 2 to 300 dollars a map
we have paied over 1000 before
mega walls maps were expensive
blocking dead map was expensive
tkr (Turbo Kart Racers) is most difficult to make maps for
and doesn't always need more maps
There's a lot of combat games, it's not making much sense anymore
we plan to bundle some games together
if we bundle quake, paintball, and other games together in one game
we keep the shop and everything
there's more people in the lobby
and we could merge the quests together
if you want to get quake reward
you could just play paintball
you could just complete the more global game
if you don't like tkr, because you don't like racing games, you could do it with a quake quest, but it needs to be in the same lobby to make sense
easier to update games if in same lobby


QUESTION 21: Translation

Talk about translation a little?
People were aksing about hebrew
if languages go right to left we don't have support
in language system
we can't add it if it goes right to left
not possible
Hebrew is right to left so can't add
we are releasing german soon
we're tracking stats
to see who is joining
german is going to be interesting
it's difficult to find a translater
if we translate Chinese, mandarin.... only reason is we got professional translaters who liked hypixel and did it for free
left to right is the only possible
why are we doing this
it gives us experience
we have learned a lot
ex. for our OWN game
learning translation
we went through the process
and learned the issues
lot of you guys French german etc. made sense to scale
So many chat questions
LOL I COPIED 'TURKISH TRANSLATION COMING SOON" HAHA
If they want to translate just go on translate.hypixel.net
helpers just mute people so far but we want them to be able to do more like in game help and suport
so the first thing we did was they can access welcome panel
only helper can see when new players join


QUESTION 22: When does skyclash come out

hopefully this weekend
doing beta testing rn
this weekend is our goal
we're releasing with 2 games out of 4 for the beta
you know, skyclash, skywars, makes sense, they will look alike
but play differently
two other modes to be released later
will be completely different
it's like skywars 2
if we put a 10v10 in skywars, it wouldn't be skywars
it would feel different
with skyclash we can be more different with gameplay
so there could be a perk, the way it works like
you could have a card that makes you immune to arrows
you could bring that card in
but if you picked this card
you can't pick another one that would give speed
you have to choose what to bring to the game
if we try X and it's not fun we'll remove it
if there's a payload game
for example
skyclash lets us do that
make gameplay changing cards to change gameplay completely
it's easy for us to add content to the game
adding cards
adding kits
the way we have kits it's with a system for game devs to add them
doesn't require developers
so yeah skyclash is like a scalable game with a lot of things
so yeah you may say it's like skywars 2 but that's kind of the point but it's going to be scaled
ok so that the finish
we'll do this again at some point
more streams in general
but yeah we're enjoying this
thanks everyone for coming along
thanks guys
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