#i havent even seen the latest episode oops

[quaranmine]

i don’t know why it surprising to me that empires is ending so soon😭😭 on one hand i feel like it’s sudden and rushed but also i think i’ve been able to tell that some people in particular haven’t been feeling it for a while or were struggling to find passion for it. my perception could be off but in my head it kinda feels like they never really recovered from the holiday-induced content break tbh. logically i know the season’s been going for a while but it just feels so short

to me idk.

I think it's always gonna be hard to end a lore-based server. Frankly, HC S8 did it best, but moon big was in the works for months and people still felt it was "rushed." Even the empires season one ending seemed a bit random to me, but I also only really watched Jimmy so idk what other signs there were leading up to it. I also know what you mean about some people not being fully into it--it's just that late season slump that happens to a lot of SMPs. It's easier to find passion and interest with a fresh start. I'm personally not too sad about the prospect of it ending because I always kind of preferred S1, and as a Jimmy main I was getting a bit bored of the toy thing. Like I love the concept of Tumble Town and the cowboy aesthetic but at lot of the episodes weren't gripping me the way I wished they would? The faeries really interested me, but I haven't kept up enough to really know the full plot details on that (yes, i know i should watch the recap). Other than that, the crossover was definitely the highlight of the season, but now it's over. I do think that the crossover event ending just around the content break time sort of threw the momentum off everything because then it's a question of "where do we go following that massive event?"

My main reasons I wasn't surprised was how it is getting longer than S1. Both S1 and S2 started in June, but S1 ran June-January and S2 ran June-now, May. So while Hermitcraft has a precedent for doing long seasons, Empires does not, and I was wondering if they were going to keep it going past the one year mark or wind it down. I also noticed they brought back the crown plotline, which was a late-story addition in S1 as well. So I was already wondering if we were in final weeks/months.

Anyway, I'm interested to see where it is going. Do we know if they're doing a S3? I assume they would? I'm fine with a fresh start but not ready to let go of empires as a whole!