SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
Well, well!
This thread, as the title already says, is all about improving the attraction level to become a premium here on MassiveCraft. Since Mojang announces their EULA changes towards monetarization of Minecraft servers, a lot of serverowners worldwide were caught on the hop. They are forced to change their ways of getting money for the continuing existence of their server. Almost every donator-feature needs to be removed until the 1. of august (Correct me, if I'm wrong!). Only features that fall in the category "Pay-2-Win" (giving donators advantages ingame or gamechanging features) are undesirable. So, you'r probably asking yourself: What the F#!?? How should we maintain the attractiveness of becoming a donator?:^)
Well, well!
Let me get this straight. I'm playing here since December 2013, not very active, but more than on any other server. To be honest, unfortunatly i didn't donate ever since due my inactivity although the premium-package is very interesting and attractive. With the new update 1.8 and the EULA-changes those features will probably be removed and with "cosmetic-features" replaced. I was reading since then through many threads and comments which concern the future of premium or rather the future of this server. I remarked that the majority of MassiveCrafts community don't even know how important donations for the server is.
However, i created this thread to suggest a feature that doesn't require to be a premium but increases the attractive level to become one. It's rather simple, but for a better understanding:
Everyone knows about demos, tests, reviews, etc and how important they are for companies, business, quality and dissemination as a sort of proof. For exmaple: Bugatti produced a new super-car, the Bugatti Veyron and they'r proudly announcing it as the fastest street-legal serial-roadster of the world. Well, nicely said, but who believes that without a proof? The automaker invites several testdriver from automobile clubs around the world. After those testdrivings the clubs publish the test reports with brilliant grades and the attractive level ascends.
Suggestion:
The integration of a trial version being a premium for a certain amount of time (2 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, etc.), so that non-premiums get the feeling to be one. It's nothing more than advertising, to whet non-premiums appetite. To read the premium features is fine and dandy but to try them ingame out is a whole new ball game.
This is my suggestion towards improving the premium package. Probably i will add more in the future in this thread. Apropos adding more suggestions:
This thread is also meant to be a collection point for new suggestions referring to premium. As far as i can see, the opinion of the community about this is crucial important! So please take your time and post reputable improvements for the future features of the premium package here!
Edit:
This is for the community that is worrying about their favorite servers that are big servers.
First of all, Mojang is not trying to bring down the big servers that need donations to keep running. I would highly suggest watching:
They are only changing the EULA because people were having donations of $10,000 and up! Mojang was not happy about that, they kept getting emails/tweets about how their kid stole their credit card to pay for a huge donation. If you want to know more about what the EULA will contain, please check out Marc_IRL here , as he deals with a lot of questions about the EULA changes.
More and more people are not seeing Mojang's point of view. Here is one example of that I mean by "not seeing Mojang's point of view."
I know people have their opinions and everything, I am not saying to change them, I am only saying to think about Mojang's point of view.
What the article says:
- You ARE allowed to charge for access to your server. In other words, charging money for people to be whitelisted is allowed. However, the price must be the same for everyone, and you can't let anyone in for free if you're charging other people for it.
- Donations are still allowed. You can still thank them in public or private, but you cannot treat them differently for donating, or give them access to different parts of the server because of that reason.
- Adverts and sponsorships are still allowed. Adverts are, I believe, having an ad placed on your server to gain income from it. Sponsorships are, if memory serves, having someone pay you or pay for your server in order to gain credit for it, such as paying for your server, but their name has to be on it.
- You can NOT sell anything that affects gameplay. Weapons, armor, food, blocks, tools. Nothing like that. However, you CAN sell things that are purely cosmetic, or aesthetic such as hats, pets, nicknames, colored chat, etc. NO CAPES, free or otherwise! I think this includes OptiFine capes.
- No real-world money for in-game currency. Easy and simple, you just cannot accept real-world money for in-game money.
- When someone pays or donates to the server, make sure to clarify that you DO NOT represent Mojang. This entire issue was partially caused because Mojang got complaints from parents about their children paying for absurd packages on servers.
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