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Originally Posted by Y_Less Given two servers, one with ads and one without, where do you think people will play? This seems like the perfect way to ensure you never have any players, which is good considering that it was a way to reduce your hosting costs.

Given two servers, one with one text ad per hour and the other with donation features thst give gamemode advantages even at the top servers, these are benefits/perks that should be available to everyone. Granted, some servers are worse than others, they all do it though, and in certain cases it can become pay-to-win.

You're all jumping on this "we hate ads" bandwagon when it's one text ad per hour, in comparison to micro-transcations plagued servers. The approach should be adopted where anything sold is purely cosmetic, though obviously, people are donating for the gamemode perks and not cosmetics. That's probably not viable unless you are a big server to have people on 0.3DL as most people are still on 0.3.7 as Kalcor didn't make it an official release as he intended to, it's a separate download on a forum page now.

There's countless MMOs that have been the victim of their own micro-transcations. And micro-transcations are far worse than ads unless the ads are obstructive and frequent.