It's a whole new world of opportunity for us to find talented people across the world. Oh boy! Before the trailer, we were getting maybe 3 applications a month? Now we are getting thousands and some applicants have a ton of experience, including major titles, it's crazy.

The perfect timing to release the trailer would have been late 2016 or early 2017, but we were not ready at all and the scope of the game kept getting bigger as well. Our community was and still is very important to get Hytale off the ground and our momentum was slowly getting away as our players were getting frustrated with us not giving any information. And number wise, Minecraft Java became less and less popular, our peak player count went from about 60k to 25k and we saw such trend happen across the board with other servers so we knew that the community as a whole was moving on as they were getting older or simply changing games to Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. Our Hypixel Minecraft server community (about 14mil unique users) knew we were working on a game for 3 or 4 years, but they were starting to lose faith as they got literally no information about it other than 'We are working on it'.I personally felt like they needed to know what we were working on as they supported us for years but I was also aware of the fact that block based games are not necessarily an easy game to get people excited about, so it had to be as good as we could make it before we could show our community and prove that we care about them a lot. To be honest, we also did not expect the trailer to get that much attention, but that's another topic that I'll cover in a bit! Truth is, I can tell you that for us it was not a choice anymore to delay the announcement, it became a necessity to get Hytale out there for several reasons. Reality is that we did 0 press interviews after the trailer and all we did were blog posts to keep you guys in the loop and give us feedback in the process via YouTube/Reddit/etc.I have no doubt that we will get that hype back to 110% before release with a new trailer or something, we have some super exciting stuff to show :D I feel the same way towards many games out there and even to Hytale itself! I accept the fact that the hype can't be 100% at all time and that's normal and ok - we are not chasing after it. Hey! Simon from Hypixel here, I can chime in with my personal experience and shed some light on our thought process about the timing of the trailer! I didn't check in with the others from the team so I'll probably miss a few points but I'll do my best :)Р”Р„s a gamer myself, I understand how people could feel like we released the trailer a bit early. Posts promoting Discord invites or other communities are currently blocked until we get closer to beta/release. Posts promoting or facilitating piracy in any way will be removed. No dissemination of rumors / leaks without actual evidence. Posts with clickbait, extremely vague, or misleading titles will be removed. More than 1 in 10 of your posts or comments being self-promotional is spamming. Always follow Reddit guidelines for self-promotion when sharing your own content. Keep it civil and do not make personal attacks to other users.Р”Р„bsolutely no harassment, witchhunting, sexism, racism or hate speech will be tolerated.Р”Вo not spam. If you want to post Hypixel stuff go to -> /r/hypixel.Р”Р‡ollow proper Reddiquette when submitting and commenting. RulesР”Р„ll Posts must be related to Hytale. This subreddit is dedicated to Hypixel Studios upcoming game Hytale.

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