Minecraft Forums

I don't donate to servers because I haven't found one that I want to keep up enough to actually take the effort to donate. If I ever played on a dedicated vanilla server (No plugins) that was run well, I'd be more than happy to donate.

I don't like when servers give you certain privilages or items just for donating because they rarely do it well. The only items that I would tolerate being given to donaters would be items like sponge, a dragon egg, chainmail armor, or 2 mooshroom spawn eggs. You know, items that you can't get in default gameplay or if they're extremely difficult to get in game but don't break the game significantly. I also tolerate when servers give members the V.I.P status if they donate because it helps identify who's truly a dedicated member. I will not stay on a survival server if donaters get creative mode, an obsene ammount of diamonds, or operater status.

I run a small, private vanilla server but I don't allow donations because I can pay 45 dollars for 3 months of my server. It's not something I really need to worry about.

If you want to get unlimited items, play on a creative server. You really shouldn't have to pay for it on a survival server.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see that most people understand and support server donations.

There wouldn't be any servers running without donators , at least not any significantly big servers.

It's already quite time consuming to manage one.

I love donating to servers, both on and off Minecraft, as long as it is donating and not a shop. Donating is when you give money for free, a shop is when they give you something in return.

Don't get me wrong, once in a blue moon I do use a shop if I like the server, but I am more likely to open my wallet if there is a lack of one. Something about a shop just makes me feel like I am being used.

i hate those hardcore servers where u donate and get a HUGE advantage (EG Double health or 100 diamonds)

If the server showed that it was good enough, stable enough, and would last a long time, then I would donate. I'm penniless though, sooo....

Not sure why a lot of people despise selling in-game items. Without selling in-game items, a lot of servers would not get donations since to be honest hardly anyone will donate to a server, if the server doesn't give something back(yes, some people will, but a majority will not). As long as it doesn't give them a HUGE advantage then theres nothing wrong with it..

I also don't understand how a lot of people voted for liking donations, and have donating before, but don't like servers selling in-game items. I can't name one popular server out there that does not sell in-game items. o.O

I am slightly against forcing people to pay anything. If it is for a good and worthy cause I might pay a bit but not too much. I have taken thenewbostons approach to life so much *SIGH*

I can't think of anyone donating $1000, unless it was their own server

I've always disliked the entire concept of donating. If the server owner can't run the server properly with his own money instead of using the community donations, he shouldn't run it at all then. Plus, if someone gives you money for hosting the server for them (doesn't matter if they wanted to give the money with free will) then it feels like a job, which is just wrong if you ask me.

Quote from ChrisPrankster

-snip-

Finally! Someone else who thinks donating is crap. Also, server owners clearly don't know what donating is. Donating is giving something(like money) without expecting anything in return. Pretty much having a server member ship is what they're doing.

Anti-donation high five.

Quote from Mixy97

I've always disliked the entire concept of donating. If the server owner can't run the server properly with his own money instead of using the community donations, he shouldn't run it at all then. Plus, if someone gives you money for hosting the server for them (doesn't matter if they wanted to give the money with free will) then it feels like a job, which is just wrong if you ask me.

All public servers are for the community and paid for by the community, theres nothing wrong with that.
I find it ridiculous that you think if someone doesn't spend their own money on the server, then he shouldn't run it at all then. Some servers can pay as much as $400 per month* and I don't think ANYONE would want to pay that much out of their own money.

* Most large servers (100 players+) are around this budget per month, for the dedicated server, ddos protection, advertising, website/forums, and if you had a custom server you could possibly be paying developers. Not only that but servers are VERY time consuming maintaining and hosting it all.

Quote from ChrisPrankster

That is ridiculous. Also, there's this server called Ubercraft(I think).

Finally! Someone else who thinks donating is crap. Also, server owners clearly don't know what donating is. Donating is giving something(like money) without expecting anything in return. Pretty much having a server member ship is what they're doing.

Man, that server. I will never understand how its one of the most popular servers out there. Its ran as if it were a company, blasting donate now messages at me every second, and people that bought admin ranks banning people for no reason. Thats why some people are so against donating is because of servers like that.
Yeah the term "donating" on minecraft servers is not really correct. But how else can you say it, I know most server owners know that donating is giving money and not expecting anything in return, but really no one will just give money for the hell of it without receiving something. And its the only way to keep em afloat.

Quote from flyingtacoz

Yeah the term "donating" on minecraft servers is not really correct. But how else can you say it,

Call it an item shop, and when someone gives money for an item they are purchasing it.

Once, a server owner told me and many others we could get to be a mod if we helped build something. I agreed, and when we finished he said that he only thought one guy was working hard and only gave him mod. The owner said we could get to be a donator which is like a mod but is a lower rank if we donated. I thought there was no way I'd pay at all, especially for a rank lower than the one I almost had! In the end I actually was able to talk the guy into making me and my friend both mods, because we did work hard on the building.
So if I can, I'd rather earn a rank than pay for it.

I don't mind, as long as you don't get a huge advantage, maybe like a perk or two, a VIP lounge, or a creative world, I'd be fine with that.

I've never actually donated to any server though.

Donate? Yes. Purchase in game items? Nope, but a few goodies come with my donations.

I personally like the idea of donating but not of buying. I will be running a server rather soon after the custom mod for it is done and after doing research into servers and thinking about the mod I found that the cheapest way to run my server efficiently was for about 25 dollars a month. Eventually I would like to have enough players so that it would cost 50-60 a month. That is a good amount of money and most good servers do have to pay that much. If you enjoy a server then you like to play it. If the owner can't afford the server, it goes down, its a lose lose. I think if you enjoy a server and you like to play it, then you should (if you can) donate to keep it running. Even a dollar from each player once a month could keep a server running if the server owner knows what they are doing.

Buying though is different for me. Although it gives you a reason to give money to the server it causes a disadvantage for the other players. The players that have donated small amounts or who cant are now instantly weaker than someone who bought something. Even with all items being accessible, someone who spends some money can instantly become as powerful as someone who spent 48 hours getting an item.

And with donator perks, I feel as long as they are not game breaking they are fine but should be light. And when you donate and are given diamonds or something, you are literally just buying diamonds not donating. Donating means, to me, doing something expecting nothing except feeling you did the right thing. If you get a title or a faster respawning time or something then its a thank you and you should not be donating to get that. But if perks are what gets the donators to donate I really can't argue against them.

Well, you see with my server I have a donor rank, but one of the most important rules of my server is I dont spawn items or XP for ANYONE, including donors. I think my server is good enough on its own and players will, (and have) donated for the hell of helping out the server!

I've never donated, because I've rarely seen a server that I really like, but what I find very bad is on survival games servers they sell kits, which I find ruins the fun of it.