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--WARNING : RANT--
Firstly , look at a few of the biggest servers at the moment :
Hypixel - Minigames
Hive - Minigames
Wynncraft - MMORPG
Dungeon Realms - MMORPG
These are just 4 of the biggest servers at the moment , but you will notice two things - one , none of them are Survival servers , two , the bottom two require ALOT of work to create.
Now , I have been on ALOT of different kinds of servers since I started playing Minecraft back in BETA 1.5 , but never have I seen so many empty servers up until today , maybe I'm just going on the wrong servers , but 'Back in my day' , If you had a Minecraft server , you were guarenteed around 20-30 regular players. Now you see server owners sitting by the site of a busy street begging for a regular community to come on their server. I think this is due to the following reasons :
1) Firstly , it's too easy to make a Minecraft Server now , with the hundreds of server providers sites , any young unexperienced player can buy a server and easily be shaken up by how much the more experienced players can mess with them.
2) Too many people have Minecraft. I may sound like abit of a Hipster here , but it's true. Humans natural instinct is to follow the crowd , so If they go on servers that the big youtubers go on , then that is another player lost for the survival server. Following this , the youtuber sees the huge rise in players on the server they went on , therefore they keep going on it , making more money from views , and then the endless loop continues. All while Mr Survival Pro is still getting no players on his server.
3) A third reason is that people don't advertise enough. No , creating an account and then going straight into the server section on PMC to post your server is NOT a good way of getting players. Making a Youtube account to upload a 240p video of your server is also NOT a good way of getting players.
4) The owners of the large servers have too much money , they can pay for huge servers , amazing plugins and beautifull websites. Just due to their very intelligent money making techniques , using their huge fanbase. The reason Survival servers don't get players is because they don't have any of this.
The solution to all of this is simple , Minecraft Surivival Servers , and their owners , need to change , quick. One way of doing this , create a fanbase before you release the server, release builds and good quality youtube videos. The only reason people don't come on is because nobody knows about you. Secondly , you need to give people a reason to donate , don't just say " Do you want to help out the server?" , give them something in return , something digital that costs you nothing [Currency , Weapons , a House].Thirdly , if you are going to make a server , don't just dive into it thinking you know what you are doing because you have watched some videos about it. You need experience , make a server , it may fail , try again , you will know what you have done wrong.
Minecraft survival is a dying trend and if you don't change quick then your server will simply be a waste of money.
RANT OVER - This was written at midnight after a long day , so excuse any errors in punctuation , grammer etc! I think i get my point across :P
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Anyways good blog! :)
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