Good Gaming

Good Gaming (GG) is a publicly traded company and is the current owner of Minecade after purchasing it from Legendary LLC with an undisclosed sum of money. They run a Minecraft server, too with the same name (GGMC) that specializes

in unoriginal game modes common on most small Minecraft servers such as Skyblock, Prison, and Factions.

Acquiring Minecade
It is unknown of the exact date of when Good Gaming purchased Minecade. Nonetheless, around early 2018 did GGMC assume full control of Minecade. GGMC has no formal owner, but Fluxty is in control of everything through his position as Director.

Running Minecade - Beginning
After years of experiencing a lack of updates from the former owners of Minecade, the GG acquisition of Minecade was first met with profound enthuasism and hope about the future of Minecade. Players and staff alike believed that new ownership was all that Minecade needed to make a comeback. And for some time, that enthusiasm was warranted, such as when GG revived the Super Craft Brothers (SCB) leaderboards that have for long been broken. The players thought that in a few short months SCB would finally receive a much-needed update. Unfortunately, GG had their own plans.

What should be common sense in any field of game development is to focus on the existing things that need fixing/refinement first before adding new content. Unfortunately, GG did the opposite of that and made Minecade Battle Royale, which as the name implies, is a battle royale gamemode. The announcement of Minecade Battle Royale came at the same time of a tournament announcement for said game as an incentive for players to play. The players that place 1st - 10th would win prizes, with 1st place winning real hard cash and 10th place winning a choice of a free item in the shop of Minecade/GG up to a certain price limit. Minecade Battle Royale was, needless to say, a disaster. Most of the players competing came from GG, with only a sizeable portion of Minecade staff partaking in the tournament. The game too, was heavily rushed to release, with gameplay being heavily unbalanced as players using vehicles had the upper edge in the game. A helicopter mechanic also allowed for easy camping at the top of the map, unreachable by players at the ground. These criticisms were never addressed and thus for the tournamnet players abused using vehicles and helicopters. After the conclusion of the tournament, Battle Royale stopped receiving players, and was eventually removed from Minecade altogether some months later.

After Battle Royale
The disaster of Minecade Battle Royale was felt in the coming months. The shareholders of GG were disappointed in the results of Battle Royale, and thus corporate management directed Fluxty to shelve Minecade and to avoid working on it for an indefinite period of time. Fluxty never alerted staff of the shelving, which caused confusion among the staff of what the plans for Minecade were. A lack of communication between Fluxty and the Minecade staff further added to this confusion. After some months later, it took all the Minecade staff complaining in the staff chat for Fluxty to even acknowledge being shelved. When asked why it took so long to even notify the staff of being shelved, Fluxty responded "Because you were shelved." Another reason Minecade was shelved is because of GGMC's volatile player count. They used to experience a few hundreds amount of people playing, but Fluxty claims that working on Minecade caused their player count to drastically decrease to a couple of tens of players (about 20-30).

Mass-Staff Resignation
The lack of trust between the Minecade staff and Fluxty further deteriorated and eventually led to an event known as the "mass resignation". On December 10, 2018, every Minecade Global Moderator (GM) and Master Global Moderator (MGM) resigned from their position. This event essentially left Minecade without any staff to moderate the servers. The lack of Minecade staff forced some GG staff members to assume the role of Minecade staff. However, they would only periodically check on Minecade and maintained a priority moderating GGMC-related games.

"Good-GamingCade"
The months after the mass-staff resignation gave a good glimpse of how Minecade were to operate under the complete and unabetted control of GG. A tournament was ran within Super Craft Brothers (SCB) in an attempt to garner players for the aging minigame. Super Minecraft Maker (SMM) contained a severe bug/exploit which allowed players to build outside the level arena and make changes to the lobby. Experienced SMM players abused this bug using alts to grief the lobby. The reasoning as to why remains unknown, but it was assumed to be an attempt to attract attention from staff regarding the brokenness of the game. Despite the constant abuse from players, Fluxty found it easier to shutdown SMM instead of deploying a fix for the bug.