Profit and webshop?

[Endriuska]

Hey,

I was wondering if someone would be willing to share their experience on donations that they received, how much can you make having the server with 50-100 online? I'm not talking about the donation for full items, just the coins/credits to buy cards/fruits/pets and etc...

This leads to another question. I'm planning to launch the server, but I want to have limited cashshop, which would only have pets, exp scrolls etc.. other than that I'm not sure what could I add to it? Any ideas what can be added to the cashshop which would not impact the game significantly?

Thanks

[MentaL]

[LarvasFaint]

Don`t overpower donators,this will make non-donators to leave your server.
Depends on server version,on higher versions you can sell more cashshop items,so you will make more money.

[Infinitive]

always donations make no sense for me but,try to keep the balance up,if exp of server is 100 give 130 to donators .
Try to keep up Blance beetwen non donators and donators..

[[GM]Terrorian]

I think you ask how much money can you make with a mu server..

Well start it now...and after 2-3 years maybe more.. if you have 500 players online and half of them donate you 10 $ monthly then you can make arround 2500 $ monthly ..

Sounds easy right?

[[RCZ]ShadowKing]

I think you ask how much money can you make with a mu server..

Well start it now...and after 2-3 years maybe more.. if you have 500 players online and half of them donate you 10 $ monthly then you can make arround 2500 $ monthly ..

Sounds easy right?

I know peoples that makes 2000-3000$ monthly from muonline servers(ads + donations) but this is not anywhere close to what is called "easy money". They waste their time on the computer managing different problems and improving gaming experience by working among with coders in order to get unique, working and bugless things. So if wasting 20hours/day, 6 days/week is not a problem for you just for few thousands $ then you can start dreaming at muonline as your future income source.

I know there are several ways to make a lot more money on the internet with less time spent on the computer(which can heavily affect your health, depending on the stress level and environment) so run a muonline server as a hobby and set low prices to cover your costs and if you want a good job start a proper business on the internet(work with people from USA and Canada, they can bring you a lot more profit than other countries).
This is just my opinion and if you don't agree with it just ignore and don't blame. Heavy donations kills the game!

[Nocturnal]

Theres lots of points to consider like..

Make sure your server is reliable and not just another private server that lasts 6 months then wipes their DB over and over again...

I know some lame servers out there that takes donations then after ruining their game from flooded donation items, they wipe their DB and change name and domain and open the server again ( this kind of servers makes donors not to trust other priv server and yes I HATE THEM )

You must establish good economy in game so that flow of donation item and non donation items are balanced.

Players must trust in the server, i dont know how you gonna do it but im never gonna donate to just random server i dont trust.

and finally you must really care and love your server and not just think about donations.

Good luck.

[Cryingsoul]

MU Private servers are ruined due to amateur owner & staff. All they care about is money. Setting up a server is very easy but making it stable takes time.

[Nocturnal]

MU Private servers are ruined due to amateur owner & staff. All they are about is money. Setting up a server is very easy but making it stable takes time.

couldn't agree more :)

[dhiee27]

i agree to @shadowking

not at all you can seat at the front of your computer, so don't dream to get that "easy money"

[Ooo Yee]

nwmd...

[mumu]

MU Private servers are ruined due to amateur owner & staff. All they care about is money. Setting up a server is very easy but making it stable takes time.

Also agreed.

[RaRemoz]

No one does cash shop right not even webzens webshop is quite right

[Ooo Yee]

No one does cash shop right not even webzens webshop is quite right

and what is the right think to be sold there?

[RaRemoz]

costumes (ring or otherwise), buffs, slightly better potions, starter packs, event tickets but all for very low prices like 1usd for a costume, 5 for starter packs. You make it cheap, make it easy to get and a large majority of people will buy your stuff.
Webzen makes it too hard to get stuff either price or method wise, a good sever will have the X store set up and have them all on one currency.
Then if things are time based 1usd for one month with costume 1.2 for 2 1.4 for 3 etc so 12 months of a costume would be 3.4 dollars and then they will want to have one for each character and then they will feel their alt leveling is too slow so they will buy a exp buff and it just goes on.

BUT if they are really good programmers they could make custom costumes which you put in the chaos machine with your armor and you change the armor look while keeping the stats then you can have $1 for a piece and then the money goes up logically from there.

I have pretty sound ideas i just lack the skills to complete them YET

[sgtemu]

MU Private servers are ruined due to amateur owner & staff. All they care about is money. Setting up a server is very easy but making it stable takes time.

i wouldn't say that's the only reason. I think MU players have something to do with it also. Everyone wants a free server, and stable. I may be wrong, but unless you are very skilled or you have money to buy everything good out there, it's impossible to make a perfect server, like reaching idk, let's say 1-2 months uptime. I've worked on some S4 for about 6 months, when i had time, and still couldn't solve one last crash... and in all this time i've had to deal with all the players, wich are very demanding. Finally i've kinda' quit everything. It's not worth the time wasted... 10+ hours per day spent in front of the pc for what..

But I guess you could make some decent money. You would need to build some tight community, have good gm's to take care of them, be prepared to spend alot of time in front of your pc, sleepless nights etc... or invest some money from start.. idk, i've never tried any payed files, but I guess they're good and could save you some time. About donations.. you could also offer those credits for votes... and if you sell a 100% exp seal for example, make a limit to donating.. cuz something like that kills the game if they keep buying it.. but if they were limited to something like 2 days a week i think it would be ok.. just some ideas.

And, as ShadowKing wrote, I think almost anything is more profitable than Mu.