On 17/10/2012 22:37, Craig H wrote:
Good concept, bad way to implement it.
The concept of raffles or lotterys for players is great, it can improve
player retention by encouraging them to stick around and contribute and
potentially raise money to be used for paying the operating costs of the
server itself.
The method you bring up to do so, however, seems sketchy and less useful.
The practice works best at a smaller scale, where the people running the
raffle are also the ones directly responsible for day-to-day operation of
the server and leading/moderating the community that surrounds it. Many
communities (A certain Battlefield 2142 group comes to mind) use this,
raising money from donations to pay the monthly hosting cost and raffling
away the rest to the players.
Going through somebody else isn't necessary or desirable for these
communities, because they benefit more from doing it all themselves.
On Oct 17, 2012 9:24 AM, "Erik-jan Riemers" <[email protected]> wrote:
Yeah, simply put, if I can play on any server or register via any server
it ceases to
be of any advantage to any server.
It's like the items you get from Valve for running the game. They have
no advantage to
one set of server owners over any other set.
There are, as I've often said, only as many full servers as there are
players to fill them and there's
very little point fighting over these players with dumb initiatives.
We've seen the good, bad and ugly of this.
Most times, when empty servers fill, it's because Valve have done
something (updates usually) to push up numbers.
i.e to bring people back or new people in. But even their updates will
sometimes simply move existing players around (e.g Players playing MvM
instead of multiplayer)
No one is sat at home thinking "I'll play TF2 because I might win $50" -
and the fact they can actually play any one of 31 games makes it moot
even if they do.
They probably already are playing one of those other games when your
server is empty.
For a server owner to tell players to register, he needs to have players
to tell. This completely defeats the premise
in the opening post that suggested our poor server owner Andrew Admin,
has a bunch of empty servers. So, how does he tell
this empty server, through teary eyes, to please all go and register to
win a prize when these people don't exist?
If he had lots of players to tell he wouldn't have any need of this idea
in the first place.
Thus we can see the truth must be somewhat wide of the pitch.
There's more hand-waving in the terms and conditions than at a
orchestral conducting competition.
--
Dan
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