The Minecraft Hunger Games (later rebranded as Minecraft Survival Games) started in 2012 when that movie was hype and it hit the game streamer scene, cross-polinating the Arma2 modding and streamer scene into creating the "Survivor GameZ" in closed groups, which as legend says, PlayerUnknown couldn't join due to not being a streamer. So he made the "Battle Royal" mod in 2013 as a free for all. It was quite obviously influenced strongly by the movie of the same name. All one big happy family back then. Those were easier times, when it wasn't about "hundreds of millions of paying customers".
Jon_Lowtek|4 years ago