Me too, I was stuck home alone depressed about lifes problems and skyblock was the main way I would escape and connect with people, it gave me things to look forward to people to care about. I was very addicted for a while but it wasnt the problem just a way of dealing with it/getting around it, before skyblock it was bedwars before bedwars it was building. Now Ive lost my addiction and only play it now and again with a couple friends that I only can connect with online. side note: I dont think its just skyblock is a bad game but lots of games as a whole.
It has many addictive characteristics, it's similar to a casino and the people who design it study thoroughly why it's addicting, just so that it makes more money, that is the sole purpose, if you quit and you actually live life you'll feel worse for a while but as the dopamine receptors in your brain get fixed you will enjoy the little things in life like you normally are supposed to.
Wanna see a fun trick? Go farming or mining without any sound at all. Especially the "player sounds", it's a high pitch sound that is addictive for some reason, if you play without sound it'll get very boring very soon, as only one of your senses is now working full time (eyes)
Yes, I got a 4.8m/day setup for pretty cheap. Collect during derpy for 2x speed buff (applies to all the time you've spent not going to your island), get back on after a year while the mayor is active, 9m/ day for a whole year GG ez money.
there's a difference between hobby and addiction like if you let it get into your personal life, then you're having a problem, like you gotta have time for other things like personally i just play it when i feel like it, but not forcing myself, in fact sometimes i get quite bored
You don’t need to go back in time to have another chance. What are you, 20 something? Not really any better of a time than to rethink the way you live. You can do anything you want. You’re the only one stopping yourself
I can just say ty man this really opened my eyes and made realise how my life is fading away. I will try to get better at school and get fit. In 3 months from now i will say if I succeeded .
I think the point here is perspective if you see yourself as gaining nothing than its fair enough to quit but if you see yourself as having an enjoyable time and having fun than your gaining the only thing that matters which is joy
@@casuality-dinopeople can enjoy long grinds especially if it’s spaced out. Sorry if this comes out as disrespectful but I don’t really see why just beacuse the game is grindy it’s some addictive terrible thing. A 20 hour grind played at 1 hour a day can be healthily done in 3 weeks.
@@casuality-dinook good so I am not addicted when there is a long grind that takes way to long I just say skip on the next thing I can do that gives me joy
@@OrangeEyesOfLoyalty Most people spend WAY more than 1 hour a day tho. When you start sacrificing your social life and spend almost no time with family or friends it becomes a problem. Even if it's fine when you're young and don't have to pay for anything, once you grow up and have to get a job spending the nights grinding in skyblock can become a big problem. Of course you should have fun and that is something good, but drugs make you feel good too and they're obviously problematic.
You are lucky, you said you are only 15 and a half, you realized in time. This game was literally my ruin, it felt like I was still living in the pandemic cause I was doing the same shit. Once I stopped for around 2 months I felt literally unstoppable and now I’m trying to make that permanent. But fr, the faster you get off this game the better.
Bro i was about to say the same. Had like a 3 month break but during summer holiday it came back. Luckily now i cant join skyblock bc of the lags that helps tp stay of
Skyblock is honestly a perfect game for me, I do understand that it can become an addiction. At least it isn’t as bad as some others. My friend and I play on different profiles. I personally like slow, grindy games and can see myself still playing in the future. I do realize that Skyblock isn’t the most healthy thing, but it got me off of doom scrolling for the most part and helps me deal with medical conditions I have. I was already distant from my family and still have good grades in school. If you are suffering from the Skyblock addiction, please do quit ASAP. But if it helps you deal or quit with anything worse than the game, I would advise continue playing the game moderately. PS: don’t buy booster cookies with IRL money (it’s a scam)
Based asf comment. Like I swear to god I’m gonna kms if I see one more person claim the game is inherently evil, like yall ain’t ever heard of a healthy relationship with your hobbies
@@OrangeEyesOfLoyaltyExactly. If they say Skyblock is evil they might as well say every video game is evil because thats all it is, a video game. If people play healthily to relax and only if they dont have anything else they need ti be doing then its totally fine. As long as it doesnt replace/eat into your real life.
@@Power_Smite while we are at it just say everything is evil. Your having social interactions? Sounds pretty funny untill you go to parties so much you get roped into drugs. On the extreme you can make the chillest things sound like there some disease from the devil. It’s not about the thing itself, it’s about your own lack of moderation
@@OrangeEyesOfLoyalty 3 weeks late but is a casino inherently evil? No... right? It does have all the characteristics that make you hooked to it. Is heroin inherently evil? Well of course... is it? I mean, you COULD take it one time and then live life without it.. except you can't. It's the same for these addictive games, what is really happening is inside your mind, a natural process that would help you in nature is exploited so that you are a husk making the company money, and sacrificing important things in exchange. I know everyone has a different situation and real life is hard, but come on, it's REAL life, it's crazy if you think about it.
Just started playing like 2 months ago, I got addicted like staying up till 2am addicted for a month but quickly reliazed what you did unfortunately way to late , although still play it I don’t play it for more than 40 min a day, heck I even made a club in high school. With my best friends and this just reinforces the system I have rn thanks and gl in UA-cam journey
there are plenty of videos like this both for skyblock and for minecraft, if you enjoy the game than play it if you don't than do something else, people should tell what you should or shouldn't do that is up to the person him-/herself and only them, no-one else.
You know. This was addicting ..... I still remember when they launched deungeons, my playtime was 136 hrs. And in just some time as it seemed to me. I had 2643 hours. This is very addicting, its like you will not know when your time passes..... I did get burnt out . But then nothing seemed worth it. My social life was destroyed, even my family was feeling like not a part of me. Ive stopped playing, but sometimes. I just wanna see that yellow number after "coins:" go up.
The goal of skyblock and what we got out of it isn't the best gear or the most money. It's the friends we made along the way. And my friends I play skyblock with are some of my best friends I've ever had.
I started playing skyblock when covid started and i spent around 1200 hours on all my profiles (1 wiped, other deleted). I quit at the end of last summer after finally getting my hyp after 1000 floor 7 runs (rng meter drop lmao) and reslizing how much time i had just wasted trying to get a meaningless item in a video game. I spent around 700 hours on my last profile which 400 of those were literally just running f7 for like 7 hrs a day. Looking back at it im so glad i quit this game, i might come back to give away some of my items but i will never return to it again. Thanks for making this vid and reminding me of why i made the right desition back then ❤
at first, i played skyblock because my friends played it then, i played it for youtube (cuz it made me pretty baller views) but now my videos on skyblock don’t do as well and they aren’t as fun to make anymore, so i’ve since been gone from the game and plus the game seems to be degrading on most people’s lives that play it, so the negatives outweigh the positives by a pretty hefty amount but i will admit, the game has a place in my childhood and is the reason im here where i am now in terms of youtube, so uh, yeah
I understand that playing *too much* skyblock is bad, but the way you talk about it can be applied to any videogame, or any hobby. If you arent in the top 1% in anything you arent gonna get money from it. What even is money for? You need some for food and a place to live etc. but after that? You invest it into hobbies that you think are fun.
I am the same age as you (Or half a year younger ig). I havent been playing as much skyblock, but ive been into bedwars and hypixel for, such a long amount of time. Worst times, I would just hop on and never stop playing until morning, even though its the same thing over and over and over and over… Its those cheap dopamines that always f”ck me up and stop me from doing stuff. Realising this throughout the summer in life without games, I put all my gaming gear in my closet and now I somehow dont play anything or touch my pc anymore, and im so glad. Still fighting dopamine addiction though. I am so glad you made this video, im gonna send this to my online friends that were always there through the toughest times, and may still be suffering. Literally thats all i have from playing so long, so thank you so much for making this video and thank you to my friends (if youre reading this comment in the first place lol). thank you.
I think I have the same experiences as you Lmao. Got addicted to Skyblock in grade 6-8, was being late to or just outright skipping social stuff, not doing homework, not studying, not exercising, until I quit Never really realized how awful it was until I quit and looked back from an outside perspective. Im about to turn 16 and still play here and there but mostly just do dungeons for fun like once a week, and no more grinding, I get all my money from minions. Grades are better, college apps are looking good, joined some sports teams, started an engineering club, started working out, and am a lot closer with so many people. Quitting Skyblock (and Valorant too that kinda replaced sb last year tbh) has helped me so much it’s crazy. These kinds of grades just suck up your time and give you nothing back. Even with Val I have some funny memories of just f*cking around with friends and random teammates (which still isn’t enough I regret playing that game too), but what did I get from Skyblock? Nothing. Just 2 and a half years of my life, gone. I guarantee in a few years Skyblock will be dead and I won’t even have my virtual pixels anymore. Sorry for the yap but this video really struck me for how exactly it mirrored what Id gone through
This is something that happens with most games nowadays, they are mostly made to keep you playing it so the games do not die leading to a large amount of grinding but also fun
i mean for skyblock to be fun you need self control which tbh most skyblock players dont have plus you need good time management to stop yourself from getting addicted im currently late game around 3000 hours playtime and i still have good grades and good relationships with people around me which really comes to show that the problem is not skyblock, the problem is you really have to learn about when to play and when to NOT play and socialise study blablabla
but talking about the lesson, yea addiction hits real with hypixel skyblock or just gaming in general... idk the alternatives dont seem to be any better
Skyblock is not about the coins we made, it is about the friends we made along the way. SIKEEEEE IT’S ABOUT MANIPULATING THE MARKET TO MAKE MORE AND MORE COINS.
Ill say this, skyblock and just hypixel itself has help me gain friends, and actually be happy in my life. yes i do have life outside of the screen like we all do, but its nice to know i have people when i get back to playing hypixel. to have fun and enjoy the game with.
HOW IS MODERN SKYBLOCK FUN FOR ANYONE? I started playing skyblock during release and the thing that kept me hooked wasn't the game itself, but it was the community and the friends I made along the way. Also skyblock UA-camrs don't make a lot of money and should find a new niche! (talking from experience) p.s. great video
I see the game in a different way, i am not too addicted to the game that my grades are going down or my social status. I balance it well and make sure to take breaks and play other games. I also think that ironman profiles are better then normal profiles as ironman is much more rewarding and it teaches that you actually need to work for things unlike normal profiles where you do the same thing over and over to get coins and buy something new. That is just my perspective though, if you are too addicted to the game and you can tell that your life is changing for the bad please stop playing for your own benefit. But if you are still playing the game and genuinely enjoying it while no being addicted and doing the same things over and over keep doing what you like to do. sry for all that yap
This is true but goes for all games that consume time and gives you nothing. If you guys are still addicted to playing games and cant stop turn ur addiction to money starting posting on youtube or streaming or sell stuff in games for some actual money.
I wanted to stop when i got wiped (7500h playtime) but then i just realized i have nothing else to do and no goals to go for besides this game, i know its bad for me but i still do it and kinda enjoy it its jist that whenever i think of doing other stuff the first thought that comes to my mind is how much downtime on skyblock it will cost me so yea i play a lot (my new account has 230h playtime and joined 24 days ago and i go to school while playing that much) but i just cant find a way to stop or i domt even want to at this point, this game has became my whole life. I think its probably sad but i stopped caring some time ago so yea for someone who read this, have a nice day. o/ also the vid is cool and hopefully helpful for people who arent as lost as me
Tip; the way I ended up quitting Skyblock was deleting all my profiles. I had about 15k hours combined on all of them inclouding an Ironman one with multiple level 50 skills. My main profile had like a 20B nw. It helped me because I didn’t want to restart but eventually when I logged back on and grinded a new profile I just deleted that one to. If you just delete your profile it helps a LOT
dude just sell the profile for real money and quit why deleting it. iam serious tho its not legal in hypixel skyblock terms irl trading in general but dude they wont catch u sell the entire profile if by any chance u dont want to do this donate the items to people in lobby or give contra to small streamers it would make their days but deleting them wasnt wrong too goodjob man
@@NovaWu. I did give away all the stuff, although that isn’t the right thing to do anymore because giving someone that stuff for free rn is just asking to ban random people for profile boosting as what happened to Ikalazar.
I am late but here's a counter argument to deleting your profiles- If you do delete your profile, you not only didnt get any real life value playing this game for thousands of hours, but you also completely yeeted those thousands of hours like they didnt exist. I can see deleting your profile if you truly cant find a way to get yourself to leave, but idk man just quit and swear not to come back, deleting your profile is making the "you wasted thousands of hours of your life" part worse
@@legendmc119 I did try to quit many times. The problem was that after a week or two I would see another skyblock video on my UA-cam feed and get back on. I deleted it as a last ditch effort and it worked.
@@zombiekin.g Again, yeah thats fair and its completely up to you but I'd rather force myself out than delete thousands of hours of my life out of existence
League of Legends is the onlyvery known game for being addictive and "drug like": But mmo rpgs like Skyblock are very similar and can have the same effect.
This video is a great lesson, skyblock has been my getaway from all my troubles in life, but sometimes we need to take a step back and reconsider. P.S. great video, and good luck from a fellow small creator, New subscriber btw
i have just taken downtime from Skyblock till they release Foraging and i got like 5000h+ most of the time when the game updates, grinds become easier and maybe the best way is not to play but let the minions work( i love slime minions they require no care)
idk ive met some of the nicest people thanks to this game, i had around 2.5k hours of playtime before i got wiped & got forced to quit but i still enjoyed 90% of my pt
Yeah you can still enjoy it of course. This video is just a warning for those who really spend up to 12 hours every try day farming or doing what ever. Glad you had fun though. Sorry about the wipe man
@@casuality-dino I was playing upwards of entire days on this game with no sleep (not very meta), i had my wipe coming tho as i wasnt exactly full legit 💀
Amazing video and I am very glad you came to the conclusion that it wasn't working for you, but I don't think this applies to everyone. Take me for example. I grind skyblock in my free time, and genuinely enjoy it! I play every day on my ironman profile and am having a great time because of the challenge and progression. As for the argument that I am "wasting my time" how could that be true when there is no greater purpose to life than just living it? I have a consistent sleep schedule, am a high honors student, and spend time with my family and friends. Skyblock isn't the problem, its how you choose to play it.
Skyblock was the only time I realized I was actually addicted to a game. I love grind in games so this had me absolutely hooked. I'd play it from when I woke up to when I went to bed, 12+ hours often times. I'd spend forever fishing in the mines, then gem mining, then slayer, then dungeons. I remember hitting top rank 12 for gems mined and top 10 for silverfish killed. I'd go play another game just to not even enjoy it cause I'd think, "Holy shit I need to make use of this current mayor" or, "I could've made like a few hundred mill today if I grinded." It was never enough for me. I ended up getting hacked and tried to fight for my account but lost it, however before they could get full access I transferred my items and coins to a close friend. When they deleted my account he asked if I wanted it back to build myself back up but I said no. Best decision I had made in a while. It felt like a weight off my shoulders.. like holy shit, I'm free. At times I do want to go back but honestly my life is full and busy, I don't want to fuck it up because of pixels.
Okay actual comment time. I understand the feeling of breaking free of a game that's owned your life for years. I do. But I think the issue isn't 100% with the game, I think it's primarily with the person playing. It's important to have a balance in life for all the things that are important to you, but Skyblock differs very little from other games in the sense that they can be addicting and throw your life balance off. Skyblock does seem to be a big progenitor of this behavior, but if you look deep enough the same issue can be found in every game. Finding a good balance of any game in your life is important. On saying Skyblock is a drug- it technically isn't; however, this little drug called dopamine is absolutely what's causing the confusion here. A sense of progression and getting items and rare drops hits your dopamine really hard, trust me I know, but this is no different from many other games. The battle pass system and the progression inherent with them give out copious amounts of dopamine. Saying this is skyblock specific issue is naive and categorically false. TLDR: If you're addicted to skyblock and have a crappy life as a result: skill issue. All hyper successful modern games do the same thing.
Yeah we should’ve said this in the video. If you can manage ur time well then u can still have a lot of fun and make many friends through the game! We’re gonna take that into consideration for our next video, thanks for sharing!
if you are strong enough to fucking go through that hell you are strong enough to quit, thats if you want anyway maybe SB is your life and if it is I get it
bro i have been playing skyblock for like 4 years and literally nothing happened my grades stayed the same or rather i started doing better in most of my exams lmao and yes even before playing skyblock i was getting stright A's
I was one of those skyblock youtubers. Even as a UA-camr, making money, I got burnt out, then fell off. Stopped making content almost entirely. Now I'm left trying to recover what once was, to reignite that deep passion for content creation I had. I remember being addicted to the game in the early days, so I definitely get the feeling. Just remember, everything in moderation. Massive props to you guys for making this video, it is quality. Makes me genuinely happy to see kids like you chasing your dreams, just like the kid I used to be. All the love and keep it pushing, I know y'all can achieve your wildest dreams. Get it my friends.
Honestly I was in this mindset before, even going on to spend a couple hundred bucks in the game, and then I got rated. After not being able to play for a few months because I didn't want to pay for the game again, I got it back, and now I just play for the fun of it, not seeking to just make money, but actually doing things I enjoy, which helped me get through really tough times; and even without going on the big grinds and all, I still progressed quite a big and I now have access to a diversity of things that I can do casually and I actually have fun! What I want to say is: if you enjoy some part of the game but feel like you need to do some other things that you don't like in order to progress, remember that the goal is not to progress, it's to have fun, so just do what you like moderately, and if you feel like you're playing too much, seek help, there are ways to escape Also sorry, I needed to yap a bit
I have played skyblock for some time, but over a longer period of time I have stopped so I no longer played it even before this video; Furthermore I have found other hobbies, some of which can land me at least some money but not all (one is infamous in the circles for being a money hole for most and a gold mine for artists)
personally these are all things i already told myself, that this game isnt giving me anything but hearing it from someone else just made me think of it abit further than i typically do, that i dont really enjoy the game and that its just wasting my time ive unfortunately spent around 1800 hours on this game (over 3 years of playing) and thats what really upsets me, that i could have used that time to do something that really benefited me
Relatable I quit sb a year ago and the changes were amazing I believe in you man, even I had 1.2k hours just give it away when your quitting and you'll never want to logon again
at one point i was 12 and had 2k hours on skyblock and around 7k hours on minecraft total, i quit almost a year ago now and it lowkey has changed my life 💀
i uninstalled badlion client and not gonna play anymore skyblock , the mining update and this video make me take want to thake this oportunity , ty brother
Appreciate the video, i also quittet 1 year ago after 2500 hours playtime, i wasted my time from 13-15 ALOT (yk 10 hours a day), but honestly please dont blame the skyblock players, look now in the after run you don't see any benefits, but while you are gaming this piece of shit, you actually have a lot of fun and I always like to say what matters is the moment and not the past or the future. I personally think real life, talking to people, smoking some weed, go climbing (i dont fucking care, im down for everything) is much more fun than skyblock. But really, I understand skyblock players completetly, if they are still playing the game, and just dont plan an changing that.
Ive developed an unhealthy relationship with this game but more broadly technology, and i feel like if i quit then i'll fall deeper into depression. Im disfunctional, and i feel like this game makes me feel a bit better.
A bit late to the party but I can confidently say that I had a lot of fun playing Skyblock in the past. I never really got into the whole min-maxing stuff that the community is so infamous for, perhaps that's why I'm not playing anymore
I started playing on the 28th of December 2022 and in that time ive gotten just under 3k hours. I keep being dragged back to it. I used to think i was doing stuff for enjoyment but ive stopped enjoying it. Ive made some of my best friends playing skyblock who have fortunately quit or play way less than they used to. I myself am in my last year of school where i should be focused on good grades but as SkyBlock has ruined that
Tbh I play skyblock religiously, yet I still have irl and online friends, and I’m still getting As-A**s in all my subjects, but I know of people who lost their grades and happiness because of this game.
just because you dont regret it doesnt mean EVERYONE ELSE feels the same as you. People have different perspectives. I think this video is really important and eye-opening to many.
@@Power_Smite yes but this is an attack on a game for no reason in my view so I think I should defend it. Imo it should be a really small minority who actually develop any kind of social issues from this game and "don't play hypixel skyblock" is dumb because this video is just for those 6 or 7 people in the 30k people playerbase
you just saved my life after watching this like seriously.... after watching this i deleted my 1200 hours playtime profile in just a second i started in 2020 lockdown.... and man this is a very dangerous drug and i was consuming it every single day my parents just scold me everytime like there is so much stuff i am going through and they are so disturbing so i not want to comment here but anyways it's like god sent your video to me and i watched it and it will definetly change my life brother thanks alot.. and sry for my bad english i am indian so sry for that
@@casuality-dino yeah pls keep your content like this.. players will get rid of this drug and thanks for replying and your channel will grow much bigger keep going bro 💪
this is the best video to watch while farming
thats me
its also kinda decent for mining
Fr
oh yea
for 8 mins?
watch 100 days
I will say that Skyblock stopped me from killing myself because I had friends i could rely on through skyblock but I understand where you come from.
Thanks for sharing, I guess some things can be both good and bad. We just think everyone should have fun!
@@casuality-dino every player needs this mindset
same lol
I quit hypixel skyblock because a lot of these reasons
Me too, I was stuck home alone depressed about lifes problems and skyblock was the main way I would escape and connect with people, it gave me things to look forward to people to care about. I was very addicted for a while but it wasnt the problem just a way of dealing with it/getting around it, before skyblock it was bedwars before bedwars it was building. Now Ive lost my addiction and only play it now and again with a couple friends that I only can connect with online. side note: I dont think its just skyblock is a bad game but lots of games as a whole.
Moral of the story: dont farm, go mining
Not after the stupid new update. Came back to farming from mining because of it.
@@CranGamingI did the exact opposite
Y'all are both gay dungeon grinding is the best, I make like 150m per hour doing smth fun
@@DachiGloryContent what cata are you, also you need god tier luck to play dungeons
@@DachiGloryContentwhich floor u doing?
Pov you played your first mmo
facts
conclusion: therapy is overrated
That’s ONG
you give them 1000$ and theyre like “well did you try having positive thoughts?”
If you think about it hypixel skyblock is fixing short attention spans 💀💀💀
lmfao pretend this is a skull emoji ().()
if that were the case I wouldnt have hw that needs to be done
kinda
It has many addictive characteristics, it's similar to a casino and the people who design it study thoroughly why it's addicting, just so that it makes more money, that is the sole purpose, if you quit and you actually live life you'll feel worse for a while but as the dopamine receptors in your brain get fixed you will enjoy the little things in life like you normally are supposed to.
Wanna see a fun trick? Go farming or mining without any sound at all. Especially the "player sounds", it's a high pitch sound that is addictive for some reason, if you play without sound it'll get very boring very soon, as only one of your senses is now working full time (eyes)
Well you see, I invest in minions. Minions are the key to achieving every Skyblock players main goal.... Which is to not have to play anymore
yeah i did that after 1.8k hours, never been richer xd
o7
"If Skyblock taught me anything, if you have a problem, the answer is *slavery."*
Me casually making 4m a day😂
Yes, I got a 4.8m/day setup for pretty cheap. Collect during derpy for 2x speed buff (applies to all the time you've spent not going to your island), get back on after a year while the mayor is active, 9m/ day for a whole year GG ez money.
there's a difference between hobby and addiction
like if you let it get into your personal life, then you're having a problem, like you gotta have time for other things
like personally i just play it when i feel like it, but not forcing myself, in fact sometimes i get quite bored
Skyblock helped me make it through quarantine, I love the game and I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of it
only 2500 hours combined is rookie numbers 💪
thats my playtime alone
@@dreaming6934I thought mine was bad with 1300 although half is afk time
Solution:❌Quit
✅Macro and irl trade📈📈
true lol, i wouldn't since i want to keep my 3 letter name account but still
@@pvz_gamesdude it's prob gettinf targeted by hackers
@@steficabozoric479 who?
@@pvz_games 3 letter accounts are very effing rare so hackers prob want it to sell it
@@steficabozoric479 oh ig, wouldn't know have never gotten an offer nor been targeted by anyone
in 2012..... bro was 3 and a half years old when he played minecraft what a gigachad
I've been playing since i was 4, on my brother's pc
I played Minecraft creative mode with my dad on the PS3 when I was like 4
i miss my teen years, i want them back, i want another chance
😔😢
You don’t need to go back in time to have another chance. What are you, 20 something? Not really any better of a time than to rethink the way you live. You can do anything you want. You’re the only one stopping yourself
ah yes and the second video in recommended after that is "i spend 6000 hours in skyblock" gj algorythm
I can just say ty man this really opened my eyes and made realise how my life is fading away. I will try to get better at school and get fit. In 3 months from now i will say if I succeeded .
We’ll be waiting 🫡
How's it going so far?
I think the point here is perspective if you see yourself as gaining nothing than its fair enough to quit but if you see yourself as having an enjoyable time and having fun than your gaining the only thing that matters which is joy
We’re mostly talking about the grinding parts of the game since that’s what takes up like 90% of it depending on your profile
@@casuality-dinopeople can enjoy long grinds especially if it’s spaced out.
Sorry if this comes out as disrespectful but I don’t really see why just beacuse the game is grindy it’s some addictive terrible thing. A 20 hour grind played at 1 hour a day can be healthily done in 3 weeks.
@@casuality-dinoi mean, hypixel skyblock is designed for grinding, thats the whole purpose, if you dont like it you probably shouldn’t play it
@@casuality-dinook good so I am not addicted when there is a long grind that takes way to long I just say skip on the next thing I can do that gives me joy
@@OrangeEyesOfLoyalty Most people spend WAY more than 1 hour a day tho. When you start sacrificing your social life and spend almost no time with family or friends it becomes a problem. Even if it's fine when you're young and don't have to pay for anything, once you grow up and have to get a job spending the nights grinding in skyblock can become a big problem. Of course you should have fun and that is something good, but drugs make you feel good too and they're obviously problematic.
You are lucky, you said you are only 15 and a half, you realized in time.
This game was literally my ruin, it felt like I was still living in the pandemic cause I was doing the same shit.
Once I stopped for around 2 months I felt literally unstoppable and now I’m trying to make that permanent.
But fr, the faster you get off this game the better.
stay off the game bro. gl 🙏
Bro i was about to say the same. Had like a 3 month break but during summer holiday it came back. Luckily now i cant join skyblock bc of the lags that helps tp stay of
playing sb rn im 15btw
Why is there 40k views instead of 1.3million?
im the 14 hours guy 💀
Skyblock is honestly a perfect game for me, I do understand that it can become an addiction. At least it isn’t as bad as some others.
My friend and I play on different profiles. I personally like slow, grindy games and can see myself still playing in the future. I do realize that Skyblock isn’t the most healthy thing, but it got me off of doom scrolling for the most part and helps me deal with medical conditions I have.
I was already distant from my family and still have good grades in school.
If you are suffering from the Skyblock addiction, please do quit ASAP.
But if it helps you deal or quit with anything worse than the game, I would advise continue playing the game moderately.
PS: don’t buy booster cookies with IRL money (it’s a scam)
Based asf comment.
Like I swear to god I’m gonna kms if I see one more person claim the game is inherently evil, like yall ain’t ever heard of a healthy relationship with your hobbies
@@OrangeEyesOfLoyaltyExactly. If they say Skyblock is evil they might as well say every video game is evil because thats all it is, a video game. If people play healthily to relax and only if they dont have anything else they need ti be doing then its totally fine. As long as it doesnt replace/eat into your real life.
@@Power_Smite while we are at it just say everything is evil.
Your having social interactions? Sounds pretty funny untill you go to parties so much you get roped into drugs.
On the extreme you can make the chillest things sound like there some disease from the devil.
It’s not about the thing itself, it’s about your own lack of moderation
@@OrangeEyesOfLoyalty 3 weeks late but is a casino inherently evil? No... right? It does have all the characteristics that make you hooked to it. Is heroin inherently evil? Well of course... is it? I mean, you COULD take it one time and then live life without it.. except you can't. It's the same for these addictive games, what is really happening is inside your mind, a natural process that would help you in nature is exploited so that you are a husk making the company money, and sacrificing important things in exchange. I know everyone has a different situation and real life is hard, but come on, it's REAL life, it's crazy if you think about it.
also I got into rust. 1490 hours, gone like that. and im 14
Just started playing like 2 months ago, I got addicted like staying up till 2am addicted for a month but quickly reliazed what you did unfortunately way to late , although still play it I don’t play it for more than 40 min a day, heck I even made a club in high school. With my best friends and this just reinforces the system I have rn thanks and gl in UA-cam journey
FINALLY SOMEONE MADE THIS VIDEO
there are plenty of videos like this both for skyblock and for minecraft, if you enjoy the game than play it if you don't than do something else, people should tell what you should or shouldn't do that is up to the person him-/herself and only them, no-one else.
@@pvz_gamesI agree I am playing Skyblock obviously grinding but I play like 2h in day because I also do work and I am having fun in Skyblock
At the first glance, many things dont seem as bad as they are really going to be
You know. This was addicting
..... I still remember when they launched deungeons, my playtime was 136 hrs. And in just some time as it seemed to me. I had 2643 hours. This is very addicting, its like you will not know when your time passes..... I did get burnt out . But then nothing seemed worth it. My social life was destroyed, even my family was feeling like not a part of me. Ive stopped playing, but sometimes. I just wanna see that yellow number after "coins:" go up.
How is your not channel popular?!
I love these videos
Ty for the support bro, more video coming soon!
i had more than 4.5k hours in skyblock but i managed to quit and life has been way better
Niceee
The goal of skyblock and what we got out of it isn't the best gear or the most money. It's the friends we made along the way. And my friends I play skyblock with are some of my best friends I've ever had.
Yeah we made this video quite more radical than it should’ve been. You can always still have fun of course!
I started playing skyblock when covid started and i spent around 1200 hours on all my profiles (1 wiped, other deleted). I quit at the end of last summer after finally getting my hyp after 1000 floor 7 runs (rng meter drop lmao) and reslizing how much time i had just wasted trying to get a meaningless item in a video game. I spent around 700 hours on my last profile which 400 of those were literally just running f7 for like 7 hrs a day. Looking back at it im so glad i quit this game, i might come back to give away some of my items but i will never return to it again. Thanks for making this vid and reminding me of why i made the right desition back then ❤
Yo, could I please have some coins, I want to try to buy a hype to help carry my brother with t4 enderman.
at first, i played skyblock because my friends played it
then, i played it for youtube (cuz it made me pretty baller views)
but now my videos on skyblock don’t do as well and they aren’t as fun to make anymore, so i’ve since been gone from the game
and plus the game seems to be degrading on most people’s lives that play it, so the negatives outweigh the positives by a pretty hefty amount
but i will admit, the game has a place in my childhood and is the reason im here where i am now in terms of youtube, so uh, yeah
Before skyblock I was a loser.
Now I'm a a loser but with higher fictional numbers.
ineedahug;-;
We’ll give you a hug bro
Guys. You can play skyblock. Just don’t let it take over. Hang out with friends, be with family, and prioritize school work. You can make it happen
I understand that playing *too much* skyblock is bad, but the way you talk about it can be applied to any videogame, or any hobby. If you arent in the top 1% in anything you arent gonna get money from it. What even is money for? You need some for food and a place to live etc. but after that? You invest it into hobbies that you think are fun.
I am the same age as you (Or half a year younger ig). I havent been playing as much skyblock, but ive been into bedwars and hypixel for, such a long amount of time. Worst times, I would just hop on and never stop playing until morning, even though its the same thing over and over and over and over…
Its those cheap dopamines that always f”ck me up and stop me from doing stuff. Realising this throughout the summer in life without games, I put all my gaming gear in my closet and now I somehow dont play anything or touch my pc anymore, and im so glad. Still fighting dopamine addiction though.
I am so glad you made this video, im gonna send this to my online friends that were always there through the toughest times, and may still be suffering. Literally thats all i have from playing so long, so thank you so much for making this video and thank you to my friends (if youre reading this comment in the first place lol). thank you.
Thank you for commenting bro this kind of stuff actually makes our day. Good luck to you and your friends
thank you so much, good luck to you too.!
I'm 27 and still playing this game and have shitty job. 😢 also zero bitchezz
I think I have the same experiences as you Lmao.
Got addicted to Skyblock in grade 6-8, was being late to or just outright skipping social stuff, not doing homework, not studying, not exercising, until I quit
Never really realized how awful it was until I quit and looked back from an outside perspective.
Im about to turn 16 and still play here and there but mostly just do dungeons for fun like once a week, and no more grinding, I get all my money from minions. Grades are better, college apps are looking good, joined some sports teams, started an engineering club, started working out, and am a lot closer with so many people. Quitting Skyblock (and Valorant too that kinda replaced sb last year tbh) has helped me so much it’s crazy. These kinds of grades just suck up your time and give you nothing back. Even with Val I have some funny memories of just f*cking around with friends and random teammates (which still isn’t enough I regret playing that game too), but what did I get from Skyblock? Nothing. Just 2 and a half years of my life, gone. I guarantee in a few years Skyblock will be dead and I won’t even have my virtual pixels anymore.
Sorry for the yap but this video really struck me for how exactly it mirrored what Id gone through
This is something that happens with most games nowadays, they are mostly made to keep you playing it so the games do not die leading to a large amount of grinding but also fun
It took me so long to quit because when I get off I just think about the grind.
i mean for skyblock to be fun you need self control which tbh most skyblock players dont have
plus you need good time management to stop yourself from getting addicted
im currently late game around 3000 hours playtime and i still have good grades and good relationships with people around me
which really comes to show that the problem is not skyblock, the problem is you
really have to learn about when to play and when to NOT play and socialise study blablabla
Skyblock can only ruin your life if you let it.
True, so don’t let it!
watching this while grinding for hotm 8, hope your having fun in real life
but talking about the lesson, yea addiction hits real with hypixel skyblock or just gaming in general... idk the alternatives dont seem to be any better
skyblock is fine as long as you play it in moderation and dont get addicted to it 👍👍
rocket league was literally my game after skyblock
Skyblock is not about the coins we made, it is about the friends we made along the way. SIKEEEEE IT’S ABOUT MANIPULATING THE MARKET TO MAKE MORE AND MORE COINS.
Shit's real, lookin at my playtime in my modpack, Warframe, Team Fortress 2, Deepwoken... all of them combined is 6 years 8 months and 14 days.
Ill say this, skyblock and just hypixel itself has help me gain friends, and actually be happy in my life. yes i do have life outside of the screen like we all do, but its nice to know i have people when i get back to playing hypixel. to have fun and enjoy the game with.
HOW IS MODERN SKYBLOCK FUN FOR ANYONE?
I started playing skyblock during release and the thing that kept me hooked wasn't the game itself, but it was the community and the friends I made along the way. Also skyblock UA-camrs don't make a lot of money and should find a new niche! (talking from experience)
p.s. great video
Nice to see support from a bigger creator ❤️
Cuz ppl r masochistic like me fr
I see the game in a different way, i am not too addicted to the game that my grades are going down or my social status. I balance it well and make sure to take breaks and play other games. I also think that ironman profiles are better then normal profiles as ironman is much more rewarding and it teaches that you actually need to work for things unlike normal profiles where you do the same thing over and over to get coins and buy something new.
That is just my perspective though, if you are too addicted to the game and you can tell that your life is changing for the bad please stop playing for your own benefit. But if you are still playing the game and genuinely enjoying it while no being addicted and doing the same things over and over keep doing what you like to do.
sry for all that yap
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The ending hit so hard. My friends would invite me to go places and I said no I’m busy but all I’m doing is playing skyblock.
I gave this game everything for years and i never felt like it was enough
skyblock is fun in moderation but I have seen people take it too far
You get more dopamine for anticipation of something good rather than getting it that's why we keep trying for the rare drop...
Games should be enjoyed. But at some point you need to be abel to step back and really ask yourself, why am I playing this game.
This is true but goes for all games that consume time and gives you nothing. If you guys are still addicted to playing games and cant stop turn ur addiction to money starting posting on youtube or streaming or sell stuff in games for some actual money.
Moral: just play for fun, know when to stop playing for the day, dont play all night
got banned on hypixel 3 months ago so I stopped playing every minecraft server and now I got a life😊
I wanted to stop when i got wiped (7500h playtime) but then i just realized i have nothing else to do and no goals to go for besides this game, i know its bad for me but i still do it and kinda enjoy it its jist that whenever i think of doing other stuff the first thought that comes to my mind is how much downtime on skyblock it will cost me so yea i play a lot (my new account has 230h playtime and joined 24 days ago and i go to school while playing that much) but i just cant find a way to stop or i domt even want to at this point, this game has became my whole life. I think its probably sad but i stopped caring some time ago so yea for someone who read this, have a nice day. o/ also the vid is cool and hopefully helpful for people who arent as lost as me
I mean im not skipping anything important irl to play skyblock so idk im chilling i just play it as a hobby
Cool
Tip; the way I ended up quitting Skyblock was deleting all my profiles. I had about 15k hours combined on all of them inclouding an Ironman one with multiple level 50 skills. My main profile had like a 20B nw. It helped me because I didn’t want to restart but eventually when I logged back on and grinded a new profile I just deleted that one to. If you just delete your profile it helps a LOT
dude just sell the profile for real money and quit why deleting it. iam serious tho its not legal in hypixel skyblock terms irl trading in general but dude they wont catch u sell the entire profile
if by any chance u dont want to do this donate the items to people in lobby or give contra to small streamers it would make their days
but deleting them wasnt wrong too goodjob man
@@NovaWu. I did give away all the stuff, although that isn’t the right thing to do anymore because giving someone that stuff for free rn is just asking to ban random people for profile boosting as what happened to Ikalazar.
I am late but here's a counter argument to deleting your profiles- If you do delete your profile, you not only didnt get any real life value playing this game for thousands of hours, but you also completely yeeted those thousands of hours like they didnt exist. I can see deleting your profile if you truly cant find a way to get yourself to leave, but idk man just quit and swear not to come back, deleting your profile is making the "you wasted thousands of hours of your life" part worse
@@legendmc119 I did try to quit many times. The problem was that after a week or two I would see another skyblock video on my UA-cam feed and get back on. I deleted it as a last ditch effort and it worked.
@@zombiekin.g Again, yeah thats fair and its completely up to you but I'd rather force myself out than delete thousands of hours of my life out of existence
League of Legends is the onlyvery known game for being addictive and "drug like": But mmo rpgs like Skyblock are very similar and can have the same effect.
This video is a great lesson, skyblock has been my getaway from all my troubles in life, but sometimes we need to take a step back and reconsider.
P.S. great video, and good luck from a fellow small creator, New subscriber btw
i have just taken downtime from Skyblock till they release Foraging and i got like 5000h+ most of the time when the game updates, grinds become easier and maybe the best way is not to play but let the minions work( i love slime minions they require no care)
thats valid
at first, i was really sad (crying btw) about getitng wiped but now i see that the benefits were much greater
i think whenever i’m bored i will just play another game for some time until i can come back to it
Well now i can do two things quit skyblock or keep playing. Yeah i would rather just keep playing :D
you do you
idk ive met some of the nicest people thanks to this game, i had around 2.5k hours of playtime before i got wiped & got forced to quit but i still enjoyed 90% of my pt
Yeah you can still enjoy it of course. This video is just a warning for those who really spend up to 12 hours every try day farming or doing what ever. Glad you had fun though. Sorry about the wipe man
@@casuality-dino I was playing upwards of entire days on this game with no sleep (not very meta), i had my wipe coming tho as i wasnt exactly full legit 💀
Amazing video and I am very glad you came to the conclusion that it wasn't working for you, but I don't think this applies to everyone. Take me for example. I grind skyblock in my free time, and genuinely enjoy it! I play every day on my ironman profile and am having a great time because of the challenge and progression. As for the argument that I am "wasting my time" how could that be true when there is no greater purpose to life than just living it? I have a consistent sleep schedule, am a high honors student, and spend time with my family and friends. Skyblock isn't the problem, its how you choose to play it.
Epic first vid btw :> Keep up the good work
Also we are the same age lmao
Insanely based comment.
The issue is not what your doing, it’s if your doing it in moderation
What an excellent realistic horror movie you created Dinamo, all too real and all too scary.
Skyblock was the only time I realized I was actually addicted to a game. I love grind in games so this had me absolutely hooked. I'd play it from when I woke up to when I went to bed, 12+ hours often times. I'd spend forever fishing in the mines, then gem mining, then slayer, then dungeons. I remember hitting top rank 12 for gems mined and top 10 for silverfish killed.
I'd go play another game just to not even enjoy it cause I'd think, "Holy shit I need to make use of this current mayor" or, "I could've made like a few hundred mill today if I grinded." It was never enough for me. I ended up getting hacked and tried to fight for my account but lost it, however before they could get full access I transferred my items and coins to a close friend. When they deleted my account he asked if I wanted it back to build myself back up but I said no. Best decision I had made in a while. It felt like a weight off my shoulders.. like holy shit, I'm free. At times I do want to go back but honestly my life is full and busy, I don't want to fuck it up because of pixels.
Okay actual comment time. I understand the feeling of breaking free of a game that's owned your life for years. I do. But I think the issue isn't 100% with the game, I think it's primarily with the person playing. It's important to have a balance in life for all the things that are important to you, but Skyblock differs very little from other games in the sense that they can be addicting and throw your life balance off. Skyblock does seem to be a big progenitor of this behavior, but if you look deep enough the same issue can be found in every game. Finding a good balance of any game in your life is important.
On saying Skyblock is a drug- it technically isn't; however, this little drug called dopamine is absolutely what's causing the confusion here. A sense of progression and getting items and rare drops hits your dopamine really hard, trust me I know, but this is no different from many other games. The battle pass system and the progression inherent with them give out copious amounts of dopamine. Saying this is skyblock specific issue is naive and categorically false.
TLDR: If you're addicted to skyblock and have a crappy life as a result: skill issue. All hyper successful modern games do the same thing.
I agree 100%
Yeah we should’ve said this in the video. If you can manage ur time well then u can still have a lot of fun and make many friends through the game! We’re gonna take that into consideration for our next video, thanks for sharing!
@@casuality-dino pin my comment then? 👀
I had the best grades at my school but when I started playing skyblock again I got my first ever B and then my second and third man this is true
Over 15k hours playtime, max normal profile and almost 400 lvl ironman profile, the pain is real but imma keep grinding 💀
Stop bro 💀
if you are strong enough to fucking go through that hell you are strong enough to quit, thats if you want anyway maybe SB is your life and if it is I get it
bro i have been playing skyblock for like 4 years and literally nothing happened my grades stayed the same or rather i started doing better in most of my exams lmao and yes even before playing skyblock i was getting stright A's
Ur the special one lol
@@Notagamerfrfr-pe lol
I know you might not feel it but you smart! use it wisly
I was one of those skyblock youtubers. Even as a UA-camr, making money, I got burnt out, then fell off. Stopped making content almost entirely. Now I'm left trying to recover what once was, to reignite that deep passion for content creation I had. I remember being addicted to the game in the early days, so I definitely get the feeling. Just remember, everything in moderation. Massive props to you guys for making this video, it is quality. Makes me genuinely happy to see kids like you chasing your dreams, just like the kid I used to be. All the love and keep it pushing, I know y'all can achieve your wildest dreams. Get it my friends.
Honestly I was in this mindset before, even going on to spend a couple hundred bucks in the game, and then I got rated. After not being able to play for a few months because I didn't want to pay for the game again, I got it back, and now I just play for the fun of it, not seeking to just make money, but actually doing things I enjoy, which helped me get through really tough times; and even without going on the big grinds and all, I still progressed quite a big and I now have access to a diversity of things that I can do casually and I actually have fun! What I want to say is: if you enjoy some part of the game but feel like you need to do some other things that you don't like in order to progress, remember that the goal is not to progress, it's to have fun, so just do what you like moderately, and if you feel like you're playing too much, seek help, there are ways to escape
Also sorry, I needed to yap a bit
I have played skyblock for some time, but over a longer period of time I have stopped so I no longer played it even before this video; Furthermore I have found other hobbies, some of which can land me at least some money
but not all (one is infamous in the circles for being a money hole for most and a gold mine for artists)
Im so relatable to this i have 3000h play time on this game acros 3 profiles 1 got wiped and i sold my other account
This game is like crac
Fr 😭
Im at 2600h on my profile going strong lol
I feel like for some people including me I just get on the game when others like my friends are on bc I wanna talk to them idk tho
thats true, we're just talking about the grindy parts of the game
Yeah me too it aint even the game, its just I have no other choice but to hangout online ;(
I had this issue during my first years of high school, it was a horrible problem
personally these are all things i already told myself, that this game isnt giving me anything
but hearing it from someone else just made me think of it abit further than i typically do, that i dont really enjoy the game and that its just wasting my time
ive unfortunately spent around 1800 hours on this game (over 3 years of playing) and thats what really upsets me, that i could have used that time to do something that really benefited me
exactly how we felt
Relatable I quit sb a year ago and the changes were amazing I believe in you man, even I had 1.2k hours just give it away when your quitting and you'll never want to logon again
at one point i was 12 and had 2k hours on skyblock and around 7k hours on minecraft total, i quit almost a year ago now and it lowkey has changed my life 💀
When I saw the middle game my brain instantly shut down so I did not touch it ever again
i uninstalled badlion client and not gonna play anymore skyblock , the mining update and this video make me take want to thake this oportunity , ty brother
glad we could help
Appreciate the video, i also quittet 1 year ago after 2500 hours playtime, i wasted my time from 13-15 ALOT (yk 10 hours a day), but honestly please dont blame the skyblock players, look now in the after run you don't see any benefits, but while you are gaming this piece of shit, you actually have a lot of fun and I always like to say what matters is the moment and not the past or the future. I personally think real life, talking to people, smoking some weed, go climbing (i dont fucking care, im down for everything) is much more fun than skyblock. But really, I understand skyblock players completetly, if they are still playing the game, and just dont plan an changing that.
Blud was 3 looking at Minecraft like hell yeah that's the next 12 years of my life
Since i couldn't kill the addiction i decided to postpone the addiction (spend all my bank on minions)
Ive developed an unhealthy relationship with this game but more broadly technology, and i feel like if i quit then i'll fall deeper into depression. Im disfunctional, and i feel like this game makes me feel a bit better.
Thank you for this. I hope it motivates me to stop playing before I go crazy.
it had a clip of powliner at the start(good vid :D )
A bit late to the party but I can confidently say that I had a lot of fun playing Skyblock in the past. I never really got into the whole min-maxing stuff that the community is so infamous for, perhaps that's why I'm not playing anymore
I started playing on the 28th of December 2022 and in that time ive gotten just under 3k hours. I keep being dragged back to it. I used to think i was doing stuff for enjoyment but ive stopped enjoying it. Ive made some of my best friends playing skyblock who have fortunately quit or play way less than they used to. I myself am in my last year of school where i should be focused on good grades but as SkyBlock has ruined that
Yeah we met a few people on Skyblock. Definitely focus on school and probably play another game
I had 1.3k hrs when I quit just know it's ruining you and give everything away before you leave so you aren't tempted again
5500 hours, 9 diffrent item wipe, 3 rat, 95% of all friend quitting, 42b networth, lv 412
Is everything it took to finally made me quiting.
Did u delete your profile?
@@rt4th yea:)
@@khanhdreadmc719 you didn’t give anything away 😭
@@rt4th it better that way, ig
@@khanhdreadmc719 I could have used it 😔 jokes well done on quitting man
Dude the grade thing is real, my schooling went downhill after I started grinding. It’s become a bit better but it’s still affecting my life
Hey I like Skyblock but not to such extent that I would go from A's to F's in school
Tbh I play skyblock religiously, yet I still have irl and online friends, and I’m still getting As-A**s in all my subjects, but I know of people who lost their grades and happiness because of this game.
This is the most misinformation I've ever heard in a single video. 5000 hours combined and I don't regret it at all
There are some people that do have substantial social issues due to games like this, but not everyone
just because you dont regret it doesnt mean EVERYONE ELSE feels the same as you. People have different perspectives. I think this video is really important and eye-opening to many.
@@Power_Smite yes but this is an attack on a game for no reason in my view so I think I should defend it. Imo it should be a really small minority who actually develop any kind of social issues from this game and "don't play hypixel skyblock" is dumb because this video is just for those 6 or 7 people in the 30k people playerbase
bro this vid has me dying, LMAO. Everything is so exagrated. LOVE IT keep upthe goodwork
Me:” Okay that’s pretty valid”
UA-cam: “wanna see me spend 150 hours on skyblock?”
Me: *clicks*
you just saved my life after watching this like seriously.... after watching this i deleted my 1200 hours playtime profile in just a second i started in 2020 lockdown.... and man this is a very dangerous drug and i was consuming it every single day my parents just scold me everytime like there is so much stuff i am going through and they are so disturbing so i not want to comment here but anyways it's like god sent your video to me and i watched it and it will definetly change my life brother thanks alot.. and sry for my bad english i am indian so sry for that
Bro it’s actually crazy how much this video is helping bro we seriously appreciate you commenting and showing support
@@casuality-dino yeah pls keep your content like this.. players will get rid of this drug and thanks for replying and your channel will grow much bigger keep going bro 💪
wow Im impressed good on you!!