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Impulsive RageNom900Im 14 i only own the server cause I can code plugins so wanted to give back to the community and after it became popular I expanded it and started to need the donations
This might be a revolutionary idea, but maybe you should just get a job and support your server on your own. If you depend on donors to pay for your server, then you don't actually own your server, they own it.
Well, that was your first problem. You shouldn't own a server if you can't provide for it yourself. Your plugins should suffice enough to "give back to the community" if they are of good quality and are made for the public.
Snowyfoximpulsive_rageClick to revealFor me being a server owner i have to say this is terrible. I charge prices for items in game and every last fund goes back into my network. With out the ability to sell classes, ranks,currency (all though i can live without this) I wont be able to sustain my network.
Out of my network community of over 100 active players only a small majority donate and for their trouble they get items and commends that give them a short term help but are still balanced meaning they are still not unbeatable.
Due to the fact i can only ask for donation with nothing in return I decided to run a survey of my current donators to see what they would say and out of the 30+ i had less than 5 say they would continue to donate.
All this means that mine and many others will have to shut down. I also ran a second survey to find out how many of my donators and normal players would continue with minecraft and i found that yet again the same 4 donators would stay playing and out of the remaining 300 players who play through out the different time zones only 60 would also continue due to the fact that many of their other favorite server were also going down.
this is not ment to rile up hate but more to say this is the only way we can get players to donate which in turn allows those non paying people (no offense but most of you haters) who expect to go onto servers and just take not give back to people who spend hours working on them.
The custom coders who spend hours coding plugins for you to enjoy, server owners who pay for your servers and constantly monitor them to keep them up 24/7 and website coders (in our case different to plugin coders) who slave away for hours every week updating stuff fixing up anti ddos and more.
I happy to hear feedback on my point of view if ive made any mistakes point them out to
Indeed, we can see your point here. Many server owners have come up and mentioned that they simply cannot survive with these new policies in place. I guess all you can do is attempt to adapt or go smaller; even if these new policies take down a lot of good servers, they'll be taking down much more bad servers. Is it worth the cost? I believe so. And I think if good servers are being hit, we'd try to help a bit more, to at least keep the favourite servers afloat.
Honestly, imo, you shouldn't be too worried, and if you do indeed get hit bad, try to adapt and minimize the server for those 5 continued donators and other players that aren't looking for fancy perks. Sure, a lot of your donators deserve some cool perks to play with for supporting your server, and they'll be upset, but at the end of the day, they are kinda slightly at fault for expecting cool perks anyways. I'm sure many of them are good, but as a whole bunch, the Minecraft server community is becoming more of Pay2Win because of this kind of situation happening everywhere. Sikit sikit jadi bukit (http://robert.foo.my/2012/07/sedikit-se ... bukit.html). And you know how far Mojang will go to keep their game as one of the only online-enabled games left that haven't been utterly destroyed by the community itself.UsberonWhen i donate to a server, what i donate for is to get more op
i wouldnt donate to a server to get a pet or hat or whatever
You should be donating for the sake of donating, not expecting ANYTHING in return. If you got a pet or a cool hat, you should kinda appreciate that the server owner recognizes your contribution and gives you something than you can run around shoving in everybody's face that you contributed to the server.
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