Hello everyone.
This post here is dedicated to understand the reasons behind the downfall of US JB. I hope that the discussion in this thread, if any, is respectful, and that the admins do not interpret my post somehow as a threat, but rather as a moment of reflection.
I'd like to tell you my history:
I started playing Jailbreak almost 4 years ago, back in December 2020 when I randomly decided to give BR JB a try. I still remember as if it was yesterday. The map was space jail, there was around 7 players, and I could not understand anything because I had voice_enable 0, so I kept dying over and over again. Someone told me to turn that on, and boom, now I get what's going on.
Jailbreak quickly became an addiction to me. I used to play on BR JB basically everyday, as all of this happened during the pandemics, and so did hundreds of people. There simply wasn't a moment where the server was dead, everyone loved playing Jailbreak.
However, the older players were slowly starting to abandon JB, but we didn't cared that much, we still had a bunch of new players joining.
We felt something odd while playing, like a piece of a puzzle that was missing. We realize that one of the things that made Jailbreak so special was the community aspect. We weren’t just a bunch of random people hopping in and out of games - we were a group of players who shared the common goal of having fun and we had a unique sense of humor. It wasn’t just about a gamemode, it was about creating moments of chaos, fun, and goofiness that made Jailbreak what it was. But over time, as I said, it felt like that energy started to fade. The newer players, without the guidance of the old ones, started to lack the deeper knowledge of what made the game so enjoyable.
People stopped logging in as much, and the servers were quieter. It wasn't like before anymore, where the server was a bustling community at all hours of the day. More and more, I found myself logging in to an almost empty server, wondering where everyone had gone.
It then reached to a point where we only joined BR JB when our friends groups called us to goof around on the server. We dictated rules our own ways, since there were zero Staff members willing to supervise the server. Turned out the best way to have fun on BR Jailbreak again was by breaking all of these complicated rules. But that was simply all. Pandemic was ending, people's lives slowly began to turn back to normal, back to school, back to their jobs, college and hobbies, back to life. The server was completely dead. All of that happened between early 2021 and late 2022. Tried playing LA and US JB a few times, but then I took a long break of Jailbreak, because of life's obligations and also I couldn't find the fun I had in BR anywhere.
Two years later, I still see BR JB dead, like a body that was forgotten to be buried. Then I hop in US JB, and realize that's everything I have. So I keep playing and familiarizing myself with the community. It felt like fresh, a fresh community, similar to BR, but unfortunately not as fun. US JB was thriving, server was full most of the times and people enjoyed playing there. But just like BR, all the magic that united the community was starting to fade out, and the old-school players were also abandoning the server. Again? Why?
Then we get to nowadays, where the peak number of players during the week is 12 out of 32, plus most times the server is basically empty. What happened this time?
Well, JB isn’t what it used to be anymore, anyone can tell that, and I can’t help but wonder what happened. Taking everything I said into consideration, was it the lack of support for veteran players? Or simply the natural course of things, where everything has its peak and eventually fades? It’s hard to point exactly why the magic disappeared, but it's clear now that it’s not the same fun gamemode I fell in love with all those years ago.
And again, I’m writing this not to complain, but to reflect. To understand why it all started to unravel and what could have been done to prevent it. Maybe there’s still hope for a revival, but I feel like the roots of what made JB as a whole so unique have already been damaged. If we’re ever going to see a resurgence, it’s going to take a lot of work, and a whole lot of passion, from everyone involved.
What do you all think? Have you also noticed the same things as I did? Or is it just me getting nostalgic for something that’s long gone?
Thank you very much for taking your time to read this.
- Sincerely, Mr.
