Minecraft’s beloved Mineplex server is back from the dead
pcgamesn.comOne of the biggest and most beloved Minecraft servers is back from the dead. Mineplex, home to many Minecraft players since 2013, has been resurrected by an Overwatch streamer and former pro player just weeks after the sudden announcement of its shutdown. Filled with Minecraft multiplayer maps and custom minigames, Mineplex had previously won a Guinness World Record for the most concurrent players on a single server in the sandbox game, but had since been eclipsed by other offerings and saw its playerbase decline slowly before suddenly shutting down.
On May 16, it was announced that Mineplex had shut down for good. Despite falling off from the heights of its earlier years, the server still regularly served thousands of players with all manner of minigames, Minecraft parkour courses, and modded multiplayer matchups, leaving many heartbroken by the news.
That’s all changed now, thanks to Sam ‘Samito’ Dawahare. “As of today I have acquired 100% of Mineplex and am fully committed to bringing the passion that changed the lives of tens of millions of players around the world,” the former Overwatch pro and rank one player announces on Twitter. He later shares a video thanking fans for their positive reception to the news, but says, “We’ve got nothing to celebrate yet, our main focus is to EXECUTE. We feel the love though so thank you.”
Samito’s no stranger to Mineplex – indeed, before he became ‘SamitoFPS,’ his career as a YouTuber and Twitch streamer began thanks to Minecraft, and his original YouTube channel ‘SamitoD’ exploded in popularity alongside that of the Mineplex server that he often played on. He even became an admin of the server for a while, before ultimately transitioning to Overwatch not long after the FPS game’s
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