I gess you wasnt here in the big change.
that NPC was removed becasue was a unnecesary expent of servers when almost no one played it, so is a featured game, sharing servers and players because cubecraft players were a lot more so many games where turned into featured ones.
only minerware was relased as a full game back, and in my opinion in the case we have enought players for turning a featured game into a permanent one blockwars must be the chosen one, as is the one with more players