A1Craft.com NETWORK - For Sale

[Pete]

Hi,
I am looking to sell my Network , hand on heavy heart i really didn`t want to as i have owned for so long and put so much work into it over the last 5 Years , it has been quite the journey.
But ultimately i have to do whats best for the server and the great community it has.

Changes in personal circumstances are forcing me to do this , I have been very vacant from server the last 6 months and its been declining because of this , a server only does well if there is an active owner and unfortunately because of losing my Job irl I have had a lot of changes and no longer have had the time.

A1Craft has a long history and at one point was quite a nice size server , our biggest ever player count was 673 aprox 2 years ago , but this is the point I started to make the server Eula compliant , and as such it noo longer had funds to support advertising campaigns, so the decline in numbers began with no money being spent on advertising.
We still see peak players of around 100 and a bit more , but the longer I leave it the less likely it is possible to ressurect for someone who is willing to put the time into it and updating etc.
You could even consider ignoring the eula rules and re-add lots back to the store to input some funds and start advertising again,but right now it is eula compliant.

Our enjin website has 9924 users signed up , and organizing events on the server or other things could easily bring many of these users back to the server, new owner would automatically generate interest i am sure.

Currently the server runs on 3 i7 32gb Ram servers at OVH , it was on 6 but as the numbers started to fall i reduced the count.
We have a variety of servers and builds , some servers are updated to 1.11 already but there are some still waiting for this to get the server on full 1.11
Server has Creative , Plots , Prison , KitPVP , Bending , AcidIsland , Survival , Towny , Skyblock , Skygrid , Factions and more and lots of potential.


This server is not just about money for me , I am looking for a buyer who would have the servers interest in mind.


All money i earn`t I spent it directly on advertising on Minecraft Server Lists which we all know costs 1000`s to advertise on , I never made money for myself always re-invested it and obviously for hosting costs , the server has been eula compliant for about 1 year and still has revenue coming in.

Please feel free to check our player count stats here..
http://minecraft-mp.com/server/37790/stats/


I have not made one of these threads before to sell a server and never thought I would so if you have any questions please let me know.
Ultimately i just want whats best for the server.


At present i do not have a price or timescale in mind , I am open to reasonable offers , feel free to visit the server IP a1craft.com


If it comes to selling I would only accept PayPal Friends and Family or a Bank Transfer.


I would prefer you to contact me by message on here or by skype : mcraftpete , you would need to state that you are interested in server as I get many requests daily to add contacts


Please bear in mind if i dont feel someone is the right buyer i will not sell the server , i will find another way to continue it maybe with more input from staff etc.

 

[Linquish]

Capitalize your 'i', it looks really unprofessional the way you've have written it.

 

[ee]

Sorry if this is rude but proof of ownership?

 

[Pete]

Yes proof would be good , i just went on hub and said hey mc-market , image attached , just trying to work out how to put it on the 1st post.

 

[ee]

Hi,
I am looking to sell my Network , hand on heavy heart i really didn`t want to as i have owned for so long and put so much work into it over the last 5 Years , it has been quite the journey.
But ultimately i have to do whats best for the server and the great community it has.

Changes in personal circumstances are forcing me to do this , i have been very vacant from server the last 6 months and its been declining because of this , a server only does well if there is an active owner and unfortunately because of losing my Job irl i have had a lot of changes and no longer have had the time.

A1Craft has a long history and at one point was quite a nice size server , our biggest ever player count was 673 aprox 2 years ago , but this is the point i started to make the server Eula compliant , and as such it noo longer had funds to support advertising campaigns, so the decline in numbers began with no money being spent on advertising.
We still see peak players of around 100 and a bit more , but the longer i leave it the less likely it is possible to ressurect for someone who is willing to put the time into it and updating etc.
You could even consider ignoring the eula rules and re-add lots back to the store to input some funds and start advertising again,but right now it is eula compliant.

Our enjin website has 9924 users signed up , and organizing events on the server or other things could easily bring many of these users back to the server, new owner would automatically generate interest i am sure.

Currently the server runs on 3 i7 32gb Ram servers at OVH , it was on 6 but as the numbers started to fall i reduced the count.
We have a variety of servers and builds , some servers are updated to 1.11 already but there are some still waiting for this to get the server on full 1.11
Server has Creative , Plots , Prison , KitPVP , Bending , AcidIsland , Survival , Towny , Skyblock , Skygrid and lots of potential.


This server is not just about money for me , i am looking for a buyer who would have the servers interest in mind.


All money i earn`t i spent it directly on advertising on Minecraft Server Lists which we all know costs 1000`s to advertise on , i never made money for myself always re-invested it and obviously for hosting costs , the server has been eula compliant for about 1 year and still has revenue coming in.

Please feel free to check our player count stats here..
http://minecraft-mp.com/server/37790/stats/


I have not made one of these threads before to sell a server and never thought i would so if you have any questions please let me know.
Ultimately i just want whats best for the server.


At present i do not have a price or timescale in mind , i am open to reasonable offers , feel free to visit the server IP a1craft.com


If it comes to selling i would only accept PayPal Friends and Family or a Bank Transfer.


I would prefer you to contact me by message on here or by skype : mcraftpete , you would need to state that you are interested in server as i get many requests daily to add contacts


Please bear in mind if i dont feel someone is the right buyer i will not sell the server , i will find another way to continue it maybe with more input from staff etc.

What is BIN? I used to play this server and would hate it to be gone.

 

[Pete]

Im the only owner , i started it from scratch about 5 years ago and it gradually grew , but as i said it shrunk when i made te ranks eula compliant and i could no longer spend the money on advertising.
Its a nice server and the community is great , there are quite a few staff and they are all keen to do their bit , but need an active owner.

In regards to BIN i will leave this thread open for a week or so and open to offers.

 

[knkcortez]

How much are you willing to get?

 

[Pete]

This isn`t so much about price , but an active owner , but at same time if i get a reasonable offer then they would be demonstrating commitment to make it work by making an offer.[DOUBLEPOST=1493303217][/DOUBLEPOST]Yes it has 2 KitPVP servers , again when we hosted competitions we got plenty of players on ,we used the forums as a way to advertise as on enjin you can send a message to all 9000+ members , so yes events we know definately bought players in , yes its currently a 100 peak player server , but it did used to be much bigger and im sure the right person/team could make that happen again , i was tempted to ignore the eula as many others are still doing now to get some money in to advertise it again , but i simply dont have the time , i owe it to the staff to find a way to move forward.

 

[knkcortez]

"All money i earn`t i spent it directly on advertising on Minecraft Server Lists which we all know costs 1000`s to advertise on , i never made money for myself always re-invested it and obviously for hosting costs"
You made 98K in 5 years and your saying that all amount money you invested on the server? I don't think so. That is a lot.

 

[Keycard]

I used to play on this server all the time, sad to see it go.

 

[Pete]

It sounds a lot when you see a figure like that yes i agree , but i used managed hosting for the first 3 years as i didnt know how to use hosting like ovh etc which is pretty steep for 6 dedicated servers , im sure there are ppl that will vouch on here for seeing a1craft advertising on minecraft-mp and others which did cost a lot of money.
If you break it down thats 20k per year , i used to spend $800 per month on hosting alone which is half of it gone , the other half on advertising which clearly did pull in some high player numbers at one time.

 

[silverblade1233]

How much are you looking for? I currently own UnturnedBF.com (Unturned server network), and I'm looking to expand over to minecraft. Looks like a good network and I will be an active owner

 

[Pete]

Difficult to know value , maybe a few ppl could offer opinions on what they think its worth , at end of day as stated above im not being greedy to try to get all i can from it , i just know that someone that pays is likely to be more commited then someone that gets it on the cheap , i dont want to see it ruined , of course i understand if sold that will then be out of my control , anyone got views on value even if not buying it ?

 

[silverblade1233]

I would like to add the fact that I'm actually making battlefield 1 in minecraft, however when I made a server for it couldn't get anyone on the server. I'd add it to A1Craft for sure, and hire some other developers to continue making new gamemodes.[DOUBLEPOST=1493312705][/DOUBLEPOST]Sorry I didn't see that message. I'm not really sure, but I probably wouldn't keep any of the money until the network is in a place where not as much money is needed to fix everything.

I'd probably remake the website and use buycraft instead of enjin too[DOUBLEPOST=1493312788][/DOUBLEPOST]In the spot it's in now i would say a few hundred dollars because so much money will need to go in to fix everything

 

[AngeloWolf_]

Hai, I'm an admin on the bending subserver of A1, and have been staff on 4 other sub severs aswell. I can definitely say that we have a great community, player numbers have dwindled over time. I first joined as a player over three years ago, back when getting 20 players on was a huge accomplishment. I've seen the server grow, and I've seen the numbers fall. The staff have been working and trying their own best to update servers with new and better standards.

My experiences on this server have been great and I hope they will continue to be so, I just hope this post can vouch for the community and staff we have on here.

 

[SoloRaids]

Nice tbh