Private Game Servers
When looking deep into the moralities of things, one could probably easily realize that Private Gaming Servers are wrong. Then again, the only thing I look at is how much money that the original game is making, and how much money I could be making if I made a private server of the game. Of course I probably wouldn’t make a private server because it’s illegal and there isn’t much money to be made in the market. Plus, there are multiple private servers for each mmo out there.
The reason I’m bringing this up, is because at some point in a gamer/webmaster’s life… he/she is going to want to make a private server for his favorite mmorpg. I’m here to rage against your dreams of profits, and bash some sense into your head.
- First of all, to create a successful private server, you must have coders that can help to fix source codes, and create new unique features for the game.
- You have to have a dedicated gaming server, or purchase your own server. Each one of these servers, which cost about 1000$ each, could probably only hold about 500-600 people on it.
- You won’t be able to provide good service, plain and simple. Your server will crash constantly, you’ll always have to have someone there to restart it. If you’re not spending every single minute of your time on it, then your members will leave.
How do you profit from these sites, if you’re planning to profit at all?:
- Charging people to play on a private game server is extremely illegal, since you are making them pay you for someone else’s content. So don’t try making any money that way.
- Donations, you could kind-of consider this a form of profiting. Then again, if you spend the money that members donated on anything other than new servers, software, and hardware to make their experience on the server better, they’re gonna be pissed.
- The most common way to profit from a private game server, is to set up your own website, with a forum… plaster it with ads from. (Google Adsense, bidvertiser, or etc…). By plaster I mean put over, but your going to need to make the site look nice as well, other wise your members could move to the nicer-looking-sites that they click onto from your ads.
- Then if your private server becomes big, affiliate with other private servers. If your server is full, you could have your registration link to other servers. In return, the other server could pay you a fee for every member they receive from your site. (this idea is far-fetched I admit)
- The only other way I’ve seen people make money from these type of sites is with affiliate ads. Often times the administrators can push the users towards wanted to do something. Like make a website to advertise their guild? Then they could refer the members to a webhost with their affiliate link, and make a few bucks there.
I’m not sure about WOW private servers, but I know a couple of maplestory private servers that have been able to pull of the whole thing quite well. These would be; Maple Geek (Which I own the Market to), and OdinMS, the very first Maplestory private server.
None of these sites can every stay profitable for very long. The owners always find themselves spending the money they make on upgrades for their hosting, and the site… so retaining money isn’t easy. Plus, hype over the games is always lost as newer-better games come out.
So… I don’t recommend private game servers!
-but, if you want to learn more about private servers, and how to make them. Then check out Rage Zone.
From the Vital Pixel Scott
Tags: game, Gaming, maplestory, mmo, mmorpg, private, profit, server, world of warcraft