BeardedCraft is one of the most friendliest and closest Minecraft communities I have ever seen. I am forever happy to be a part of it.
BeardedCraft originated from Mike and I fed up of finding respectable, friendly Minecraft servers. So then BeardedCraft was formed and it evolved into something huge!
Before we knew it we had over 100 players, then 1000 and now 7500! We have had almost 100 individuals pay real life currency to see us thrive and that support means so much.
However...
As problems have arisen over the past eleven months, they stack up and up without reasonable solutions..... It has really gotten out of hand. But I try my hardest to patch them.
Financially, we have really been cutting it close to an expected time-frame in our future with all the costs of keeping BeardedCraft playable for everyone, whenever.
With Mike being the good friend he is, I hate to tell him how managing his server single-handedly gets harder and harder as days pass.
But as a joint emotion, we feel MineCraft has lost it's flare it once had. Which in turn, I am sure many of us can also feel as well... Not just with BeardedCraft.
Most servers out there, they remain forever forgotten.
They struggle to rise above the single digits in a community and face impossible challenges with the problems they do face.
Minecraft is a simple-made game (Better than anything I could produce, keep in mind) and the competition is heavy for new servers arising and the Minecraft game in itself.
More players are leaving for competitors like CubeWorld, quitting MineCraft altogether, or just starting their own servers. This drastically cuts new players... And a future.
-- Although many can debate CubeWorld is not a competitor, it is. And the MineCraft hype has been dying out slowly based off this social media.
So, I never really have done an introduction on myself... So now would be a good time with all this, I think.
My name is Nick, I am twenty one years old and I voluntarily have managed four MineCraft servers over the past three years; BeardedCraft being the most successful.
I do not get paid. I solely have run off the happiness and entertainment all of you have brought forth to the server every day you log in.
As I have tried to juggle my real life with this cyber life, one side always seems to lose and the constant stress over a video-game has finally broken me down I feel.
What am I saying, exactly?
Good things never last forever.
Between the un-fixable, inevitable end BeardedCraft will meet from the accumulation of wear and tear of the year of general Minecraft experiences,
And my need to prioritize my real life... This end might just be closer than we think.
We have seen many friends come, we have seen many friends go. We have had our ups, and we have had our downs.
As a video-game with time and effort put into it... Much more so than others, it really does hurt to be the bad guy most of you have seen I try so hard not to be.
If we continue down this path we are headed, we will trip and fall. Even if a new beginning began, I do not know if I could be there.
I want to finish off saying this...
Though BeardedCraft may be forever lost one day, you will always have the memories you made with the people inside this virtual world.
Make the memories you will never forget to remember.
- Nick
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. For anyone whom does not really want to read all of it, the key points to know are that names that have not purchased MineCraft before the ETA date (February) will become available to everyone and the names will stay case-sensitive. Banned players will still not regain access to servers despite a name change, either -- Which is wonderful. 
. Long live LTC!
