Paying to Win on a Pay-To-Win Minecraft Server

Paying to Win on a Pay-To-Win Minecraft Server

So, I’ve just logged on to Manic Cube, a server people have been claiming is pay to win because of its loot crates and $50 ranks. But today, I want to test, can a random person actually log onto the server, spend hundreds of dollars, and easily make it to the top? And if so, how much do they have to spend? Now, the game mode I picked for this experiment was Sky Block because the gameplay is so pure and simple. Chop this tree, make a cobblestone generator, spend $100 on useless garbage. I mean, seriously, what’s the point of even owning Netherite armor? It’s not like I can die. Oh, nah, just kidding. I also bought the ability to fly. Okay, but this is absurd. I’ve already dropped $100 on this server, and there’s still stuff I can’t afford. Now, this here is the server’s top 10 leaderboard. Look how much money everyone has. 22 billion. People have spent months working for this. So, for our experiment, if in a week I can get to the number one spot, that means the server is pay to win. But I can’t exactly just buy my way to the top of the leaderboard. On the server store, there’s no way to just buy money. But what we can buy is cubit. One cubit is roughly $1, which makes them very valuable. So, we can use these to buy things that will make us money. I heard spawners were the fastest money maker, so I found the most expensive one, iron golem, and bought the server’s entire stock. But when I went to go place them down, turns out I hadn’t unlocked iron golem spawners yet. I’m broke. What? I had spent $100 on the server yet was still broke. So, paying to win might be a little harder than I thought, but at the same time, I have so much money it doesn’t matter. wasted 40 cubits. I can still buy as many chicken spawners as I want. Now, I started by killing them one by one and selling the drops, but I was producing more chickens than I could kill by hand. So, I tried to push them into lava, but then their drops would burn. But if a problem can’t be solved with money, that means you’re not spending enough. For a cubit, I found a chunk hopper that would collect the items before they burned, and then for four cubits would funnel into an autoell chest. That’s for real life dollars, which feels way more expensive when you put it like that. One upgrade later and I had a money printer. That’s 100 chickens auto killed right there. But if we’re running this experiment to see if spending money on a server actually helps you win, how will we know if we’re actually making more money if we can’t compare it to someone not spending money? So, say hello to our control group. I have to be the control group. Yeah, obviously we can tell you’re the control group. Oh my gosh. Well, you’re making fun of it. I think it’s sweet. So, because Colin wasn’t spending any money, he couldn’t afford spawners. So, most of his funds came from harvesting crops. How much money do you have right now? Uh, 4K. All right. All right. We don’t got to put that part in the video. Okay. Okay. No, no, no. Wrong. I’m going to go back and I’m going to kill like a thousand chickens and then you’re going to be you’re going to be wishing you never called me poor. But Colin was right. I was paying to win yet wasn’t winning. So, to solve that problem. Okay, let’s run it again. But I was thinking Colin might be on to something by harvesting carrots. They sell for a good amount. So, if I built a massive farm, it could be our best money maker. Now, I wanted this larger, but didn’t want to spend all the time building it. It’s not like there was any obvious tool or command that I could purchase that would expand the farm easily. But I want you to know something. You can buy anything in this world with money. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We got someone on our island. Now, this player, any crazy yakirl, was just a random person I found in chat who I thought would be desperate for cubid. So, I made them an offer. Every chunk of carrot farm they build, I’ll pay them a tenth of a cubit. They were obviously skeptical at first. Nobody on the server is paying cubits for a carrot farm, but they trusted me enough to start with one. Oh, look at them go. This is so fun. I just get to keep mining and keep making money. And I just look over and there’s more stuff being built. 3 cubits. Well spent. I could tell Yakil really trusted me at this point because they then went on to build seven more chunks before asking for their last payment. Oh my gosh, look how fast they built this entire thing. This guy’s insane. In total, I spent a cubit on the carrot farm, which now that I’m saying that’s a real life dollar, does make it seem like I paid too much, but it’s not like I was being thrifty with my other cubits. I was throwing real life money at whatever I wanted. Hey, it’d be nice if I had a tool with fortune to get me more carrots. Sure, let’s buy one of the best pickaxes on the server just for the Fortune 6. It’s annoying that I have to type/ell every time my inventory is full. Sure, let’s just buy a talisman that does it for me. I could now make $1,000 every second I was able to harvest carrots. So, I wanted this farm 100 times the size. But I found a helpful tool, obviously costing cubits that would place down five blocks of farmland at once. So, now the slowest part of expanding the farm was just the initial planting of the carrots, but I really did not want to do that for the thousands of farmland I wanted to place. Now, planting carrots was a job that anyone could do, so I literally got anyone to do it for me. Mouse. Mouse. This player could not be newer to the server. Imagine you’re a kid joining a Sky Block server for the first time. There’s endless possibilities. And just immediately being put to work by the bourgeoisi. Here’s the thing is this guy is so new to the server. I don’t even think I have to pay him in cubits. I’m incredibly rich and I’m still exploiting free labor. I kind of understand it now. Is this slavery? No, I’m paying you. But I don’t need payment. I think my employee just died. They they disappeared. The last carrot they planted near the edge. I think they fell off. Well, luckily tedious manual labor is easily replaceable. I reached out to a new player, Frosted F, who was so new to the server when I offered to pay them cubits, they went, “What’s that?” Which is why they didn’t want to plant carrots for me. But I still teleported them to my island, gave them carrots, and told them to plant. And well, look who’s planting carrots. Oh, it happened again. Oh no, they’re planting so fast. Oh, Frosted Fres. That’s so embarrassing. Yes, dude. One of my old employees is back. Yes, I had to pay Yakirl an actual wage of cubits, but it all evens out because I paid Frosted F $50,000, which I will make back in less than a minute running this farm. But this is when my island got hectic, dude. Now I Now I have so many people DMing me. Who is this? There’s just a random person on my island. Dude, I need to keep planting. They’re actually going so fast. Oh no, Frosted F. Since it worked the first time, I teleported Frosted Fres back to my island, told them, “No, you need to keep planting.” And now I have four people on my island planting carrot. But here, I wish I could say this is the true power of being able to pay to win on a server, having people do whatever I want. But this isn’t paying to win. Mostly because half these people aren’t being paid. Frosted Fresh just DM’ me. I don’t want to do it anymore. In total for this whole farm, I spent eight cubits, which is eight real life dollars. But honestly, it’s kind of pathetic how this video is about spending a ton of money, and I haven’t even broken like four digits yet. Everyone’s going to think I’m broke. But you want to know who is broke? Colin. He’s still not spent a single dime on this server. So, I wanted to check on his progress and then do a little prank. So, as I can see, your carrot farm is um Okay. Pig spawner. The only way I’ve been making money is by spending so much time fishing. Really? I guess it is a lot harder without spending money. Wow. Wow. You know what’s the rarest carrot in the world? I think I have enough carrots, man. I’m going to be honest. This is actually kind of a nice house. Wait, before I go, I have a gift for you, Colin. So, you know you have that pig spawner? I do. There’s a spawner. Even better. The iron golem spawner. And I want Yeah, let’s go. Let’s go place it down, Colin. Oh. Oh, I What? Maybe we do something like this. Well, I’m going to keep this and sell it. Oh, I didn’t think about that. Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Give it back. Give it back. Give it back. Give it back. But from this, it was clear spending money on a server does make you richer, obviously. But I also surprisingly left his island a little jealous. Colin had a nicel looking base with creative projects to work on. But when I got back to my island, it’s just chores. Man, this is so tedious. Harvesting all these carrots. This is boring being rich. I’d collected rare items, but compared to Colin, my island was just so bland and lame. But you may remember you can buy anything in this world with money. So I consulted the employee board for a builder, but none of them had particularly cool islands. And I genuinely haven’t seen Frosted Fracks online since he quit the carrot farm. There was one island I visited, Dragon Born, but this island stinks as well. But since I was here, I did ask Dragon Born if they knew of any impressive builders on the server, and they said yes themselves. Okay, I’m going to take a chance on you. So, we agreed on three cubits for a build. I gave them the theme of banana and then I looked for someone more experienced just in case. Please, please, you’re actually a good builder cuz I don’t think I’m sorry. I don’t know if this one’s going to turn out. For the second build, we agreed on 10 cubits. I again gave them the theme of banana and then I got to sit back and watch my island come together. I did not have that much faith in Dragon Born. This is not that bad. I would say I’m pretty pleased with this. Wait, it’s still going. Are they peeling the banana? Oh, Dragon Born, do I regret doubting you? Oh my gosh, is that that photo’s aura? Now, Dragon Born enjoyed building on my island so much that they went on to build for other islands. We took a chance on them, and now look where they are. Then the banana house was finished, which for 13 cubits, our island has a lot more charm. With my money, I was doing a lot more than pay to win. I was paying to be cool. But then Colin let me know there was a new development on his island. See, his new method of making money was selling real estate. And one of the houses had actually recently just sold for a h 100,000 to none other than Frosted F. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe you sold a house to someone. Did you do that? Yo, Frosted F. What the Somebody said, “One cubit is worth 300 million bucks.” Wait, I paid someone 10 cubits to build me a house, so I gave them 3 billion. That would put them 15th on the bow top. Here I realized the method for getting to Bow Top isn’t carrots or iron golem spawners or anything physical for that matter. It’s purely pay to win. And I also got a giant banana. But now I’m realizing I paid a billion for that giant banana. Definitely overpaid. Yeah. So I now needed a boatload of cubits. So I bought 350 more for $350. But our goal to get to the top of the leaderboard is $24 billion. So I then advertised in chat selling cubits for $250 million each. It was such a good deal, we immediately had a buyer. Ladybug star bought only three cubits, but that still sent me to the top 100 richest players before I spent it all on island levels because at island level 150, I was finally able to place my hundreds of iron golem spawners, the best money makers on the server. But honestly, those weren’t even close to being as profitable as selling one cubit. So, I reached out to Ladybug again if they wanted to buy more. They asked how many I was selling. I said as many as they want. So, they then proceeded to offer me their entire bankroll. There’s no way. There’s no way I’m about to make $6 billion. $6 billion. We’re going to be rich. A deal this big required some sort of prestige. So, I built each of us a throne and invited Colin to be the witness. Welcome. Welcome. Yes, we are about to witness the deal of a lifetime. Deal of the century. Deal of the universe. Yes, the helpers are even handing. Let’s go. See, Colin, I could tell you how much money I made, or you could run the command/valtop 2 and you’ll see. But I was still far from spot number one. So, I found another buyer, which is around the same time I noticed my growing reputation on the server. Banana Man, I love you. Who are these people? Another deal of the century complete. I guess I keep selling my cubits. Yeah, I got to put in a hard day’s work. Yo, get out of the chair. Yo, we’re trying to do a deal. Another deal of the century complete. This one’s more of a deal of the decade, though. Chat was noticing what I was up to and started to get quite hectic. Your neighbor might be the best player. You know what, torpedo, thanks for the nice words. Here’s a cubit. Yeah, it’s not like I was trying to calm them down. Currently, I was $13 billion behind first place. It seemed simple. All I had to do was sell 50 more cubits and I would have reached the top. But I found that I had so many cubis to sell, there weren’t enough people who could afford them. The gaps in between each buyer only got longer and the amount they purchased smaller. So to fill those gaps of boredom, I picked up the habit of coin flipping. Yes. 40 cubits on heads. Please, please, please, please. Yes. Yes. That’s it. That’s it. I just won 10 billion worth of cubits. Oh my gosh. I’m three for three. Oh my gosh. It’s on heads. Oh my gosh, it landed on heads. We’re betting 100 on heads. Okay, we want heads. Oh no, why did I click? Please, please, please. Six for six. Oh my gosh. No, no, no, no, no. I’m not taking that. I am not taking that. All right. All right. I think I see why gambling addiction is a bad thing. Go again. Go again. Go again. Go again. Come on. We can make our money back. Oh no. Oh no. Oh, we’re going on a generational loss streak. Oh no. Why do I keep clicking it? Oh no. I can’t win a single thing. I just need one win, man. One win. That’s it. That’s it. And then I’m So how in a game about breaking even? I’m not broken even. I’m down 150. You know what I’m doing? I’m pulling up the store right now. We’ll do one final coin flip. We’re down 150. I’m going to buy more cubits. And then then that’s it. And then we do one last one. We’re either down 300 or we’re break even. Jared. Oh my gosh. This is it. Kale’s. Oh no. There it is. There it is. Oh. So I was now down 300 cubits. That’s more than I’ve ever spent. Most of it taken by a mysterious player I’ve never seen. TBNR Doge 1. Even chat was starting to notice how reckless I was with these coin flips. But now all I wanted was to just break even. And you can buy anything in this world with money. So with the extra cubits I bought, I actually started winning a bit. Even against TBNR Doge won. I am the best gambler in the world until I was 40 away from breaking even. But then I saw TBNR Doge put up a coin flip for 200. I could get myself in the positives. Holy smokes. 400 cubits on the line. Please, please, please. I think we’re heads. I think we’re heads. Heads. Heads. Heads for heads. For heads. There we go. Yes. Yes. No. No. That’s so bad. That’s so bad. That’s so bad. Oh my gosh. No. That’s what happened. I was left with 112.38 cubits. When TBNR Doge put up a coin flip for 112.38. He was trying to wipe my balance clean. But no, I was not going to let this man ruin my rich reputation. This guy’s trying to kill me, man. I’m not going to let him kill me. He just messaged me. GG’s. You got to be kidding me. No, that is the nastiest GG’s. Now, we know you can buy anything in this world with money, but after losing to TBNR Doge, I no longer wanted to buy Breaking Even. I wanted to buy Revenge. Little do you know, little do you know, this is the end of TBNR Doge. So, day five, I started by buying another $250 worth of cubits, which upgraded my rank from elite to patron, a rank only given to those who have spent $1,000 on the server. That’s crazy. $1,000 rank. But what’s even wilder is there’s another rank above me. But I never said revenge would come cheap. On my island, Colin and I built a giant pixel art of a doge. This would be the bait. I had spent the previous day scouring the auction house, buying every single fart in a jar up for sale. Some I got for as cheap as six, but most were selling for 10 cubits. 10 real life dollars for this, which for revenge, that’s a steal. Then we needed players on our island, so I offered cubits to anyone who helped, which is when this prank started to snowball. Oh my gosh, we got the helper online. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Someone added another person. Okay, read the signs. Read the signs, everyone. This is so many people. Who is this person? When did you get here? Who are you? Okay, I have one more jar. Now, some of the prankers were getting restless, and if we didn’t do this soon, we’re going to leave. But TBNR Doge wasn’t responding to my messages. Except I knew exactly how to get their attention. I’m taking a 60 cubit coin flip. Oh my gosh. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. They’re here. Do you like it? Stop farting. Everyone, bro, I love it. Okay, I think now. I think now. I think now. I think now. Go. This is my revenge. feel the wrath. And there they go. Good work, everybody. But this day kept getting better. After hearing about how many cubits I was throwing around, the fifth richest player visited my island for the deal of the millennium. 40 cubits for $10 billion, their entire net worth. Oh my gosh, Colin/Bow [Music] Top. No one cares. Now that I’m number one, the only way to go is down. You know what I’m going to do? I’m crashing down on my own terms. Quarter of a billion for a stack of Netherite blocks. 3 4 5 6 7 8 21 22 23 24. In total, I purchased two double chests of Netherite blocks, which I used to construct the server’s largest Netherite cube and then opened up my island for people to visit the greatest physical manifestation of my well. Yo, we got a mushroom visiting. What do you rate the cube? No way this cost 25 bill. It literally did. The cube actually attracted quite the crowd. But then, dang, people are leaving. I guess you realize how boring a Netherite cube is. So, to flex my wealth even more, I reopen my island, but this time allowing anyone who joins to steal the Netherite block. Okay, they’re crushing through it. Oh, look at this person making their little staircase for their friend. People with like unenchanted diamond pickaxes mining. This is like it’s inspiring. You know what? Take a few more. Stay back, WA. Stay back. Stay back. I did not realize this whole thing is just like disappeared like immediately. It is sad though that the uh the richest people are the ones that are able to mine the most. Pay. Yes. Take the netherite pickaxe and keep mining my $29 billion empire is gone. Just like that. Oh my gosh. Look at absurd combo for just slowly mining. But each block is a million dollar. There’s Yeah. Two Netherite blocks left. Is anyone going to Is no one going to Really? Really? You You got so fat and happy you don’t want to bother flying up and mining, too? No. No, Karen. It’s like the last slice of pizza. Like, you don’t want to be the guy. So, those are going to be there forever. Now, the Netherite block may have been gone and my balance now at zero, but this experiment cemented Banana Man in the eyes of the server as a legend, which even helped in selling cubits. I was visited by the first ever player who could afford more cubits than I was actually selling. So, I had to open the shop right then in front of them to buy more because, you know, I have to ball out. So, after a simple trade, I was home. But not for long because I had my eyes on one last leaderboard that if we got to the top of would be guaranteed proof I have paid to win. It’s the main one in the sky block lobby for everyone to see. And the winner at the end of the month gets a trophy for their island. It’s most island levels bought. Now, after you pass level 150 when you unlock iron golem spawners, island levels become useless. They do nothing except be a bigger number. So this leaderboard is really who can shovel the most money into a giant hole, which Banana Man has already been doing. But as I shoveled money into the pit, the reaction of the server changed. It started with, “Wow, Banana Man making moves.” Then I shoveled more money into the pit, which turned into why. But after I shoveled all 45 billion to get to the top, they started calling the server pay to win and no GG’s for you. Just like that, the server’s view of Banana Man has soured. But it’s not like Banana Man changed what he was doing. All that changed was he was at the top. But I can understand why the player’s view of Banana Man worsened because it’s like that great quote from the director Steven Spielberg. Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner. But Colin’s Island gave me another perspective. Yeah, our theory was right. I made more money than a person who couldn’t pay to win. But can I say I truly won more than Colin? Because look at his island. He built impressive structures and made friends. And is that not the true point of Sky Block? To have a good time. So, in conclusion, yes, you can pay to win on this Minecraft server. But money is not required to have a good time. In honor of Banana Man 590, giveaway post 590. GG. Craft one. A noob won. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. GG. Good work. I’m so happy a noob won. Oh, this is it. All my remaining money on the line. Please, heads, heads, please, please. No, no, no, no, no. Yes, yes, that’s it. Yes, that’s it.

Yeah Jaron spends a thousand dollars so he can finally win something for once in his life.

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Yo, just wanted to clarify a few things about this video:
1. I did not receive any money from Manacube for making this video.
2. All cubits were also purchased by me EXCEPT for the cubits used in the final giveaway. I don’t show this, but we ended up giving away 590 cubits three times, all of those were provided by the owner. But everything else was bought by me.