Is it worth it?

[Atmazphere]

Hi folks,
So basically, I owned a successful server once, by successful, I mean, averaging ~$1000 in profits a month in donations, so excluding revenue. That server took money and time to get players, in total, we spent around $700 USD in getting the playerbase we had. Which was around 150-300 players online at a time. Honestly, I have zero clue to why I love Minecraft, it's the stupidest f!@#ing game you can play, especially at 18. My past few servers, I spent $0 on advertisement, and it basically turned out to be a friend server, except for my past one. MineSector was advertised on a top list, then ended up averaging a fair amount of players, okay - to the main point now..

With the way Minecraft servers are today, is it worth investing $1000 into a new server for advertisement?

 

[Atmazphere]

if i have that money i would get one. and do u have server now?

No, not at the moment.

When spending no money on advertising, and still developing some type of community is extremely lucky, I would suggest investing money into advertising. It'll be more beneficial.

That's not really my original question. I know it's lucky to get players without advertisement.

 

[FU22Y]

Honestly, Do what you think is best!

 

[Noscopinq]

Go with the flow! I suggest looking at advertising etc.

 

[Atmazphere]

Go with the flow! I suggest looking at advertising etc.

Well yes, that was the whole point and the main question is literally “Is it worth spending $1000 on advertisement?”. I don’t want to drop a grand and get nothing out of it.

 

[Orochimaru]

Yeah, I suggest you do.

 

[Atmazphere]

Yes if you spent it right and be kinda greedy. Don't spend like money on YouTube's with like 5k subs. Get the big ones or a lot of the small ones who actually have a little community who follow them. Buying serverlist advertisements is okay but most people won't join from there but I still recommend it. So spend the money wise and get good youtubers and streamers.

Yeah, you're thinking from a very good business standpoint, that's not greed. Why spend money on something that isn't going to benefit you? See, $1000 isn't a lot of money for advertisement (it is, but it isn't), but the thing is, I want to invest the right way so I can get my money back. Just like any other person would.