Mineplex
Mineplex is a "Minecraft" minigame server that is one of seven "Minecraft" servers officially partnered with Mojang Studios, the developers of "Minecraft". As of mid-2016, Mineplex had millions of unique players monthly. At its peak, the server had around 20,000 concurrent players at almost any given time, and broke a "Guinness World Records" record on January 28, 2015, for having 34,434 concurrent players, the most on a "Minecraft" server at the time. In "Guinness World Records 2016: Gamers Edition", Mineplex was listed as the most popular "Minecraft" server network, having 34,434 players on the server at once on January  28, 2015. This record was lost to Hypixel the same year. Mineplex's popularity has been rapidly declining since its peak years, and now the "Java Edition" server averages around 300-600 players simultaneously, while its "Bedrock Edition" counterpart averages 10,000+ players. History. Mineplex was founded and created on January 24, 2013, by Gregory Bylos and Spujell, known in "Minecraft" as "Sterling_", and "Spu_". The server is among the oldest Minecraft servers that are still running to this day. The server received large increases in players after YouTuber CaptainSparklez became part of the Ownership team and he would publish  videos about the server. In June 2015 the server would break the record of most players online with 43,033 concurrent players. In 2016, the Dallas Mavericks partnered with Mineplex to create "Dallas Mavericks World", a minigame for the server. According to a news release by the team, it will allow players to compete in building competitions and play a basketball minigame in a full-scale model of the American Airlines Center. The minigame was launched on the server in the summer of 2016 but ultimately failed due to Mineplex's partnership with Mojang Studios. On July 7, 2016, the Bedrock  Edition server was established hosting most of Java Editions games for a wider audience, and had peaked at 19,000 concurrent players. Since then Mineplex has been slowly losing players and continues to do so. Mineplex is currently owned by Ryan Strutton and Jonathan, known in "Minecraft" as "Strutt20", and "defek7". Features. The server's main feature is its various minigames, specially customized and heavily modded multiplayer maps with different objectives. These minigames provide winnable gameplay mechanics to the sandbox game. They are divided into categories such as Classics, Arcade, Champions, Clans, and Holiday minigames. To pay for the server and  its development, Mineplex sells in-game cosmetics and special features to players as well as skins and maps on the Marketplace for Minecraft Bedrock Edition.