The purpose of this poll is to see how the people of the minecraft community feel about Pay2Play servers. Let's assume that the server in question is awesome, and the community there is great, and has 24/7 uptime.
Would you be willing to pay for it, and if so, how much?
Your choices:
<1$
1$-3$
3$-5$
5$-10$
10$-20$
>20$
Also discuss what advantages a P2P server would have over a non P2P, or disadvantages. Also, discuss past experiences with p2p servers.
IF the server is good and IF people aren't jerks. lets face it its costing the host for us to play. 5 dollers per player a month should be more then fair (the price has to match the cost of running the server + how many players) its not like paypal is that hard to use that some 13 year old with a bank account can't figure it out. think of the people who are spending their time and money for this and try to do their job
Bottom line. When you belong to a pay to play community there is no greif. Everyone has payed to be there and wants to stay.
Your server admin can afford and awesome server to provide you great service. Things will just be better.
70% of the minecraft community are playing on a server that 1 person selflessly pays for. You see the donation button but you never click it. Neither does anyone else. That server admin gives his time and money so you can play. That admin will get burnt out after a few months and that server/community will not be there anymore.
With a pay to play server you get stablility. You get a dedicated server most of the time. Your server can handler more plugins and more players.
So pay to play or dont pay to play. But whatever you do always donate if you enjoy your free server that someone else pays for. If you cant donate than Thank them for providing you with a place to play.
Bottom line. When you belong to a pay to play community there is no greif. Everyone has payed to be there and wants to stay.
Your server admin can afford and awesome server to provide you great service. Things will just be better.
70% of the minecraft community are playing on a server that 1 person selflessly pays for. You see the donation button but you never click it. Neither does anyone else. That server admin gives his time and money so you can play. That admin will get burnt out after a few months and that server/community will not be there anymore.
With a pay to play server you get stablility. You get a dedicated server most of the time. Your server can handler more plugins and more players.
So pay to play or dont pay to play. But whatever you do always donate if you enjoy your free server that someone else pays for. If you cant donate than Thank them for providing you with a place to play.
First off, nice bump on something that the community has already decided on.
Secondly, I use to host a server for free, and I did have a donation button, and you know what? I DID get donations, my community liked the server and they donated and I had no problems hosting the server. Griefing will also be there, pay to play or not, and in my server we had plugins so you simply couldn't grief. The speeds were nice and well, everybody had a great time. If you can't afford to host a nice server, or you cant host a good enough server to incline people to donate, you shouldn't really be hosting one at all.
Would you be willing to pay for it, and if so, how much?
Your choices:
<1$
1$-3$
3$-5$
5$-10$
10$-20$
>20$
Also discuss what advantages a P2P server would have over a non P2P, or disadvantages. Also, discuss past experiences with p2p servers.
Your server admin can afford and awesome server to provide you great service. Things will just be better.
70% of the minecraft community are playing on a server that 1 person selflessly pays for. You see the donation button but you never click it. Neither does anyone else. That server admin gives his time and money so you can play. That admin will get burnt out after a few months and that server/community will not be there anymore.
With a pay to play server you get stablility. You get a dedicated server most of the time. Your server can handler more plugins and more players.
So pay to play or dont pay to play. But whatever you do always donate if you enjoy your free server that someone else pays for. If you cant donate than Thank them for providing you with a place to play.
First off, nice bump on something that the community has already decided on.
Secondly, I use to host a server for free, and I did have a donation button, and you know what? I DID get donations, my community liked the server and they donated and I had no problems hosting the server. Griefing will also be there, pay to play or not, and in my server we had plugins so you simply couldn't grief. The speeds were nice and well, everybody had a great time. If you can't afford to host a nice server, or you cant host a good enough server to incline people to donate, you shouldn't really be hosting one at all.