Your Opinion About Donation Servers

[Scribbles]

If I had a Donation server, about $7 would be taken from the donation money (Every 3  Months)  to support a Premium account for DeviantArt.
Then I'd look for someone I could Hire to make some stuff. Like some High-Class Scripter or Mapper, or Web designer.

[Zelos]

If I had a Donation server, about $7 would be taken from the donation money (Every 3  Months)  to support a Premium account for DeviantArt.
Then I'd look for someone I could Hire to make some stuff. Like some High-Class Scripter or Mapper, or Web designer.

If you make a server that you put donations out like this, tell me.

[purple]

Donation Server's it does'nt mean that you are responsible for donating it depends on how you play . :3
donation is "if u care bout the server not to waste of money and time for the nothing well u can spend money depends on what you want and what you care about.

[Kyuubi]

I honestly don't care too much for servers with donation items as long as the donation items are not over-powering.

[Jaded Honor]

Donation is an often abused word in the Ragnarok community. Personally, I think there is a large difference between "donating to a server", and "buying donation items". If your getting something out of your donation, then obviously, its not a donation in the true sence of the word, and your "Donation system" turn's into a IRO-esk "Kafta Shop".

Of course, with no incentive, then many admin's feel that people won't donate. Not true. I know of a few servers whose player-bace willing donated to support a server that they had known and loved for many years, simply out of kindness. (However, this only happens on small, tight-knit  lowrates, or so I've scene.)

If the admin of a server you played on was asking for donations out of purely financial need, and you cared about that server, you'd throw him a few bucks, if only to keep doing what you love ,right? On the other side of the coin, if you start to hear allegations that your head admin's been charged with charity fraud, probably you won't feel the same way.

[LittleD]

I think Donation is OK, as long as the item is not overpowered..
and the server doesn't beg you for donate,its just a voluntary action from the player, because you donate means support the server then you got thanks gift from the server
because player love the server,thats why the player donating for keep the server alive

but theres one thing i still cant understand, does a free-to-play server doesnt have Donation system?

[Stealth]

Just to be safe, I'd stick with a donation-less server.  However, for most servers, that's just unrealistic.  But I suppose I can deal with it if the rewards are reasonable.  Basically, your best items and consumables shouldn't come from donations.  Also, because I dislike customizations, I would like to not have custom hats, auras, wings, etc. from the list.

[Skye4485]

I dont mind mind donation servers as long as the item you get for donating is tradable. otherwise only donators have the best stuff.

[adhelle]

I played in many servers before being a server admin. And I stay with: as long as they do not have stats at all or are also obtainable ingame through quests/voting points, its ok.

[Uzam]

servers with donations are ok, if the donations are trad-able and if there not exclusive items.

[Hitman47]

A lot of you complaining about Admin's taking money into their own pockets should think about what you are saying. Good servers require constant maintenance and updates which can easily become a part time or even a full time job. So what if the Admin uses the donation money to pay for the food he eats?

But just to make it clear, having overpowered donations and selling MvP cards to players for $$$ is simply corrupt. That's a whole different story though. That's like selling crack in the basement of the laundromat you own and operate!

[Nomi]

I mean no hostility or offense to the OP, but doesn't this feel a bit one sided in terms of donate servers? Now I realize many people feel quite objective to them since some servers do tend to corrupt themselves because of them, or something of similar misfortunes.

The main purpose of donations however, is to support the server they are posted for. A majority of dedicated servers use... well those machines made for servers. Now the issue with renting these servers out to host the game is the cost of the server. Where do these people get the money? Well many server owners are quite confident in their server and tend to use their own pocket money if they believe they can afford it. However, that is not the case for every server. Believe it or not, depending on what payment plan and service provider the owner of the server goes with, it can collect to a bit of money there (this also depending on if the owner is aiming for a server supporting 100 or 1000 people, which will differ the price).

I am posting this because I have seen a good bit of bias and paranoia about donation servers in RMS. I don't mean to disrespect anyone here, as I know from your own experiences, you are in the right of your words to object to donations in your belief of the subject. Claiming bias however that all servers that posts up donation choices is almost nit picking... to be a bit honest. No one pushes a person to donate, and not all servers make it so you have to donate to mean anything on the server.

Take Midgard Chronicles for example. While our donates may seem over powered to a bit of you, statistically the +10 and +15 stats given by equipping the donate means quite little compared to actually knowing what your character does, and how to do it well enough to survive. We are not a donate focused server, and we are not over powered in... well really in any sense. This goes for a number of other servers out there with similar situations.

In the end, I just wish to say that please don't label servers and throw them off to the side. If you wish to play a server, you're going to need to actually give them a try before judging. Happy playing guys. :3

[Pandora]

@Hitman47 nice necro, the post was 1+ year old =P

[Nomi]

@Hitman47 nice necro, the post was 1+ year old =P

Noticed that too, but the issue about the whole donation thing is still happening as of today. So couldn't help but post too xD;

[Chojiro]

They are a necessity (usually), as long as there is an alternative (such as voting) or they have little impact on the game then I don't mind.