ElmoKilljoy

I know my comment was harsh but I had the exact same visceral reactions as anyone. Sry We should be lucky they aren't all charging for their hard work then.. We know the cost of running a server will shadow the one-time costs of those plugins. Those $140 only account for 3% of my overall costs, and I know that's different for everyone. And if you're starting out, it's a Big hit. I've been there, hell, I'm perpetually there, never breaking 10 players, so maybe from that angle it's too steep a price for me.. But we must consider what we're willing to do to give players a completely different experience than PVP Rust. Players still only payed $40. We carry the maintenance and plugin costs. Mr Steen (or is it Mister Maroo? Mister Namaroo?) pays the greatest price in the work he put in for free until now. PVE is a Much smaller market with much fewer players to gain, which is dominated by a few servers, so the risk is steep, and always has been. Having to pay $40 was upsetting off the bat for me too but I keep my eyes on the prize: a player that enjoys the server. $40 to get there is worth for me.

I am also poor server owner of small PVE feel sad for me pls. No $ gains, Big Gs all at a loss for my peoples. My 1-5 active ppls lol. true story I did the maths: Server been around 74 weeks. Has BotSpawn since day 1. I would have payed $40 for BotSpawn day 1, PVE essential. Hashtag PVE essential. That'd be about $0.54 USA per week, $0.077 cents per day. Worth. Payed. But won't use yet. Will watch the support section until I trust it enough to use it, and just.. idk.. add more zombie hordes for now. Done. Recommend other penny pinchers do their maths. Recommend mister Steen consider a water down version of this for free BotSpawn. Raidable Bases model, gets ppl to pay for the pay version. Can testify.

Yea unfortunate situation for some ppl, but it's a plugin I would have payed for to begin with anyways. Everything comes at a price. Looking forward to future content. If it was never the intention to let BotSpawn die, to act as the free version, then maybe it should be revived. Unless the idea was to keep it alive until this kind of change happened, which is understandable.

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