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CrazyGamer2000:
Well it's summer vacation and I've been rather bored. I decided to go and take a look at good old Opticraft.

To my shock there was only 1 person online. This pretty much sums up my suspicions, Minecraft's Golden Days are over. Not a

single update for the 8 months or so that I've been inactive plus low member count in nearly every server. Not to say that

Minecraft is dead just yet, it'll be kicking for a while longer albeit without any new faces on the server. But that's not the

main point of this post. This is a post of nostalgia, I just want to hear your best memories of Opticraft. Pics of old creations

and projects or stories of a funny memory.

DeeKay:
Indeed our peak days are over, but that's just the nature of running long outlived game modes such as classic and survival, which were both in their own time extremely popular for us.

However, for every few people that leave, a dedicated player stays, and as long as that happens, we're always gonna be in our peak in a different kind of way.

In my eyes, my best memories are still be created here. :)

raul7legend:
Minecraft isn't dead, it's still enormous (65 million sales - most on the PC and third of all time after Wii Sports and Tetris - not a small feat by any means...), rather the direction of the game now is different than it was.
In the earlier years Opticraft was a trendsetter in terms of servers - in classic optical was one of the first to open a server, and not just open it but also code it himself. Being early on the curve all the time made us very successful!
Same with the SMP server. When 1.0 came out people were hooked on the survival multiplayer aspect and this was very beneficial for us, being one of the first stable servers and one of the servers that update first.
Now almost 4 years later people grew tired of the vanilla aspect of the game and are focused on different game modes and add-ons for Minecraft. Opticraft, being true to our survival game mechanic, didn't want to change (for better or worse? I really don't know) and this made people who weren't too connected grow tired of the same stuff.
Yet when the other players the left, the ones who stayed feel loyal to the community. Sure we will probably never get 70 players on at a time again, but I know for sure that the 10 that are on are amazing people. Plus, who likes 40 griefers on at a time anyways? ;)

~pimkey5~:
As lame as this sounds Opticraft has become apart of my life now (not sure if that's even healthy lol). The community and the love that's radiated from it is something you can't find anywhere else. You can speak anything that's on your mind and people will be there for you which is the one thing I love about it. My favourite memory honestly is the friends I've made and I'm pretty sure that half my opticraft memories have been shared with them. I'm pretty anti-social in real life so I like that on here I can be myself (which is this annoying af girl who talks all day) and not be judged too much. I know for a fact that there will be plenty more memories to come and I'm looking forward to those :D oH and i don't have a screenie on this computer but one of my favourite memories (this is random) was when Caanite tricked me into making my title Etinaac on SMP and I didn't realise it's his name spelt backwards until about a week later (rude af).

Wone:
Hello.

I'm on a very long holiday now. I thought of returning to playing Minecraft on a daily basis but I need to figure stuff out about my Minecraft account first (especially as I haven't played since before Microsoft bought Minecraft so I am not familiar with the changes in the launcher and whatnot).

Main point is, I am going to return to Opticraft in the not-too-soon future.

Hope to see some familiar names around.

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