This is true, they are two different games, but it isn't uncommon for a company to have the same money-making system for multiple games. I know they didn't make Minecraft, but they did make the Hypixel Server and they do have a separate website store which and they could use those same ranks for Hytale and just have it give the rank to both when you buy a rank. Most game companies have some sort of membership to make money like Xbox Live, Playstation Plus, Origin Access, or some variant of that where the membership is for all the company's games and not just a single game. I also don't see how this could be unfair to new players who haven't played Minecraft (Other than the exclusiveness of items which I do agree may be a little unfair) since anyone can still buy the rank and if they made it so that you got the rank on both the server and Hytale by putting both a Minecraft username and some sort of Hytale username, it would save a lot of money considering some ranks are like $200... and the Hytale developers are literally making the game so they can put similar cosmetics in Hytale if they wanted to (Which is likely considering they are making the same map for the Hypixel server on Hytale the same as the map for the Hypixel Minecraft server). Also saying that this scenario is like "Buying something on Call Of Duty which u can also use on Battlefield" doesn't make much sense to me because those games weren't made by the same companies or the same developers meaning that it wouldn't make sense for them to do that, but Hytale and Hypixel Minecraft Server are made by the same person and developers and company so it seems more likely for them to do something like this. Maybe I'm wrong, but the Hytale developers don't seem like the type of people who would make you pay for something twice due to them having a different game and, not to mention, that game literally being based off of the Hypixel Minecraft server itself (with some unique things too since it is it's own game of course). If they don't make it free to play, I can see them making you pay for the game because that is clearly reasonable, it just wouldn't make sense for them to make you pay twice for a rank you already bought from them before and it really wouldn't be too hard for them to just carry the rank system and ranks over to Hytale. Who knows, the game isn't finalized yet so maybe they won't even add in a rank system at all but to me it seems very likely.