Is MINECRAFT Development Profitable Anymore?
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It depends. If you have a broad ability, you can do quite well, but if you're focused only on plugin developer, it will be pretty hard to stand out and get customers.
I would say that there's no wasted effort though, as you're always learning something new every day, and sometimes this can be applied to languages you haven't even learnt yet (such as using binary searches, instead of linear ones to improve efficiency).
I would say that there's no wasted effort though, as you're always learning something new every day, and sometimes this can be applied to languages you haven't even learnt yet (such as using binary searches, instead of linear ones to improve efficiency).
Java / JavaScript are the only languages I've really ever tried to learn. What do you suggest for me as a pathway to broaden my skills? Are you suggesting I learn something such as web development as another service to offer?
You can definitely broaden your skills by learning web development, and some other stuff. I made quite a few Discord bots in Javascript to get good at it. Just find something you think you could be good at, look into it and understand how it works, then learn as you go. Two birds one stone
Being skillful at what I do won't increase the demand for plugins. My reasoning for making this thread, is I believe the demand for plugins is decreasing, whilst the amount of plugin developers is increasing.
Define "profitable", there is a lot of people that create plugins now, and amount of bigger servers seems to be much lower than few years ago, if you want to have 25-40$/h and normal 8h/day it might be hard, as there is just a lot of already written plugins that many servers will just use, or often server owners just want to tweak few smaller things and they don't really need long-term fulltime developers etc.
I personally stopped developing anything for MC around 6 months ago as I wasn't sure if I will be able to earn decent money each month and pay for rented house, bills etc... most of the time I had more money than I earn now, but it wasn't stable - and doing all that legally in my country requires me to pay 18% of taxes + ~350$ for insurance.
So I decided to switch jobs and just become normal backend developer for some company, at least it is stable and I have paid vacation days. But sadly I personally like gamedev much more, you can easily see effects of every line of code you wrote in an instant
But I still track some forums like that, just to see how community is changing.
I personally stopped developing anything for MC around 6 months ago as I wasn't sure if I will be able to earn decent money each month and pay for rented house, bills etc... most of the time I had more money than I earn now, but it wasn't stable - and doing all that legally in my country requires me to pay 18% of taxes + ~350$ for insurance.
So I decided to switch jobs and just become normal backend developer for some company, at least it is stable and I have paid vacation days. But sadly I personally like gamedev much more, you can easily see effects of every line of code you wrote in an instant
But I still track some forums like that, just to see how community is changing.
I’m not looking for a stable income, I’m more so looking for a hobby that I can make some extra money at.Define "profitable", there is a lot of people that create plugins now, and amount of bigger servers seems to be much lower than few years ago, if you want to have 25-40$/h and normal 8h/day it might be hard, as there is just a lot of already written plugins that many servers will just use, or often server owners just want to tweak few smaller things and they don't really need long-term fulltime developers etc.
I personally stopped developing anything for MC around 6 months ago as I wasn't sure if I will be able to earn decent money each month and pay for rented house, bills etc... most of the time I had more money than I earn now, but it wasn't stable - and doing all that legally in my country requires me to pay 18% of taxes + ~350$ for insurance.
So I decided to switch jobs and just become normal backend developer for some company, at least it is stable and I have paid vacation days. But sadly I personally like gamedev much more, you can easily see effects of every line of code you wrote in an instant
But I still track some forums like that, just to see how community is changing.
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