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Goodbye to the Beginning and End of my Minecraft experience - mattjtv - 2016-02-23
Hello McTopians! I decided to look at the website of McTopia today and have seen that the server has shut down, but it wasn't a sad experience. I wasn't happy it shut down either, but it is the only appropriate step in the process.
I, like many other human beings that have experienced McTopia, have had some of my best memories on this server. This server is, or was, hands down the greatest Minecraft server or any server I have ever played on. I joined for the first time around the summer of 2011 with two of my buddies at the time, and quickly started to build a rapport on the server. I got busy with school and my social life a lot throughout the 5 years, but I always came back.
I was 11 or 12 at my friend Zach's house when I looked up Minecraft servers on Google, found Minecraft server list, and saw McTopia listed. I texted my other friend David the IP of the server (inspironwins.dyndns.tv), and we all started to explore. I remember quite well the deathly spawn at the time, which will always be my favorite. You would leave the spawn area and instantly get killed by one of the hardcore PVPers on the server with full diamond armor, ready to slash off the necks of the new players -- but I kept going and eventually build a huge fort with my friends. We had an underground cave at first, and near it we build 3 houses that got absolutely destroyed, but we still kept going -- or I did at least. This server was special though, and I thought it was due to the gameplay, but it wasn't. I tried once or twice to sort of replicate the experience on my own hardware, but it didn't work. What has always made this server special wasn't the gameplay, but the interconnected community that developed.
Before I joined McTopia, I was a fairly awkward child. I didn't really understand how to interact with new people very well, and all of my friends were my friend because they either came to me or met them through other friends -- which I didn't have very much of. McTopia has always had one of the most beautiful chat formats in my mind, which caused me to start using it a lot. After a while, I actually started having conversations with people, laughing with people, and experiencing the survival aspect of the game with people. It started chipping away the shell I've always enclosed myself at, and made me finally see through the crack of the shell enough to realize I can completely break it. It took a while to master, but to this day I have been able to make so many friends, and I attribute that part of me to the McTopia that we all have known and loved.
So we're at this point now: closure. Most of us joined this server in our prepubescent or adolescent stage of life, where cute, blocky sandbox games were the best thing ever. The simple sounds of cows mooing, breaking grass blocks, and placing stone stimulated my brain, and got me pretty addicted. Although there are many adults who play the game, most of us are now at a part of our lives where we have college, or high school. We are getting jobs, we are having serious relationships, and having a lot more to worry about than what we had to worry about at the age of 12, which is pretty much nothing. The awe of Minecraft, at least in my mind, has shrunk a lot since I went to high school and the game started appealing to kids more and more. As stated in the title, I do not plan on playing the game for a very long time, because the appeal of it has gone down. But it will always have a special place in my brain. I will always have vivid, happy memories of the game, but much more important, have the memories of those people that I've connected to on this server that have become very important to me.
To all of my friends, you know who you are and I love you and hope we can stay in touch. To the other players, you are still part of my family, and I'll bring yams this Thanksgiving that I know you'll love.
Lastly, a very honorable and respectful mention to Alex, aka Inspironwins. You have made such an impact on my life not only by creating this incredible Minecraft server, but you've helped me develop a lot of my current technical skills today, and for the most part been such a supporting and caring person. I wish you the best of luck in the long life ahead of you that I know with your skills will get you far.
Au Revoir, McTopia
-Matt
Goodbye to the Beginning and End of my Minecraft experience - Metazard - 2016-02-23
While we didn't always get a long Matt, I'm certainly impressed by the change you've undergone while joining and leaving the server, I still have you in Instagram and things are a lot different now, haha. Best of luck to you, Mr JTV.
Goodbye to the Beginning and End of my Minecraft experience - Jamourous - 2016-02-23
Keep smelling like crap m9
Thanks for the memories
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Goodbye to the Beginning and End of my Minecraft experience - tobiii1004 - 2016-02-23
Matt! You've come a long way!
Jesus, remember that time when you hated me? And I also hated you? That wasn't fun, uh. I'm glad we're past that. The memories I made with you didn't really come until late in game, but I really do value them. And hey, you've got my number - you always know where to reach me. I wish only the best for you.
P.S. Keep shredding on that guitar - you're quite good at it.