Chances of a successful server?

[N1nja]

If I were to launch and create a Factions server. What are the chances of it becoming popular, bring in players and income? Having in mind I have a large budget. I know features = popularity.

 

[MCAdmiration]

There are a huge number of Factions servers available right now so first you need a new idea or concept to add. Although you may have new concepts and custom builds/warzones etc this won't solely get you a successful faction server. Advertisement and insentive bring good conpetition and a player base. You'll probably need a youtuber or two to start a series on there and advertise your unique factions server and a paypal or buycraft reward for the best faction would make people stay on the server.

These are just some things I've seen on some servers and would probably do well.

Also make sure you bug test everything so the server doesnt fail when it opens due to lag or plugin errors.

There are a number of servers available so it may be hard to get popular but if you advertise well you'll be fine.

 

[MCAdmiration]

There is unique factions with unique events that are not even popular or failed at being a server even thought they spent atleast $300 Dollars usd, Unique & Custom doesn't make a server successful, Instead making a server that can bring stuff THAT WILL attact the player base from other factions server can hit very great and make it a working server, My old server i made it a replica of cosmic since in those days cosmic was to much Pay 2 Win and decided to give everyone a chance to have a fair balanced gameplay, which that was the reason we got 80 - 120 players in less than a week of opening, without paying youtubers, Themes or Features is what will bring and attract players, Not only advertisements, Advertisements are just the easy to fucking make a server known.[DOUBLEPOST=1491467127][/DOUBLEPOST]My server got shut down cause we got sued by Cosmic Managers, So making a replica isn't a good idea currently, but i recommend using as a STARTING base something that all players will like or something that they dislike from other servers where you will be able to do the opposite of it making what they dislike on other servers, make em love it in your server by changing it!

Yeah I wasn't saying being unqiue makes it popular I was saying it could keep the players who come from the advertising you use, although I agree being unique isn't going to make it a good faction experience or anything

 

[N1nja]

Thanks for posting your own opinion's everyone. To me budget wouldn't be an issue but the scene of failure would bother me. I would start a skyblock server as I loved them & slowly expand but that's if I see a growth.