Is it worth making a high quality server? 2019

[Masons Monarch]

Hello! As of the last 3-4 years minecraft has been on a downward spiral, though as of recently its made quite a comeback. It seems our game is not dead. I'm wondering if its worth investing money to make a nice server with custom plugins, paid staff, etc. Leave your answers in the reply. If you guys have been considering making a server but was wondering the same thing, dm at MonarchHD#1504 , maybe we can do a colab or something. Anyway, thanks in advance.

 

[Colin13]

Complete oversaturation. I see multiple announcing launches on this site alone almost every time I'm here.

 

[Satisfied]

Depends on your approach, and marketing strat/budget, don't follow the typical route.

 

[Zeiyon]

I personally believe Minecraft is becoming a bit more relevant. Is it enough to start investing time and effort into a server? I'm not sure.
I'm not even sure how long it will continue to keep rising, but hopefully it doesn't stop

 

[Sugor]

No it's not worth it.

 

[Aelin]

I’d say start with as low an investment as possible, and as you start seeing results on a small scale, then and only then begin to expand larger. In general though, I personally do feel like MC is coming back a bit so there’s obviously a market for servers; if you can stick out from competitors, it may still be profitable.
Good luck

 

[Axp]

Minecraft bouncing back is probably only adding nostalgia players. By nostalgia players I mean people playing again for the sake of it, not people willing to dump $100 on a server and leave 3 months later. If it was to me I would wait out how things go and if the playerbase is still gaining, go for it. If not then don't, an investment with high amounts of cash won't give an ROI in a month if you have paid staff and a dev team.

 

[UnknownUsername]

I’d say start with as low an investment as possible, and as you start seeing results on a small scale, then and only then begin to expand larger. In general though, I personally do feel like MC is coming back a bit so there’s obviously a market for servers; if you can stick out from competitors, it may still be profitable.
Good luck

I agree with this, I'm starting off my server with low investments & minimal features instead of throwing it all out there at once, but I have amazing & original ideas for my server which I'll start to add after release.
I'd say get a base server started, release that and add on as you go.