we are not gonna get the same player count as the record we broke in the pandemic even if they add “Old Eggwars”
Are you referring to the servers total player count or just eggwars?
We may never reach the server record, but for eggwars the record was already beaten, not too long after the addition of "new eggwars".
no one asked for a huge change in Eggwars
Define "no one" in this context.
nor have they listened to the community’s opinions
Which part of the community exactly? The only part of the community that was actively ignored was the minority made up of sweats and tryhards, mostly because the majority of the others are not that vocal and "active" to begin with.
which has as you can see have drastically changed the player count and has a huge affect on the server.
I've said it before in another reply this thread, I am fairly certain I often said it in various others, and you are making me say it again: that's incorrect
The player counts after "new eggwars" (season 2) was added are proof that it was a good change, one that players wanted.
I can recall plenty of numbers from that time:
shortly after the update, even during "low activity" hours, you had several thousand players on eggwars
At peak times, with 15-18k players online, almost half (sometimes actually even more than half) of them were on eggwars at any given time, with eggwars alone, as a gamemode, almost cracking the 10k mark many times.
What causes the player numbers on eggwars to be "low" right now is a mix of factors:
1. Hives bedwars update, leading to plenty of players playing that instead
2. Cubecrafts bedwars update, which lead to a massive chunk of players switching gamemodes. This one is even further backed up by the fact that bedwars, despite being an unfinished beta-gamemode, manages to be the servers most popular gamemode
3. A lack of regular big updates for a long time. This one is actually the true reason behind reason 1 even making sense. Players didn't leave for hive because its better, they did because its different from eggwars and just so happened to have a big update
4. The changes made in more recent eggwars updates (season 3) being slightly more similar to old eggwars, you know, making farming quick and early kills being made easier by, for example, changing the price of concrete to be very low.
5. The fact that the "novelty" of seasons 2 and 3 simply wore off by this point
Also: eggwars is still the 2nd most popular after bedwars, so its not even as bad as everyone makes it seem