Why MC-War and MCBrawl is dying.

Thank you chickenputty for your reply. I realy appriciate that you took your time to explain, what your were doing and as you can see the Forums/Website are awesome, McParty, PvP and KitPvP are going pretty well. But players are still unpleased with McWar and McWarZ because they were promised an "huge" update. In my opinion you probably have the wrong approach. You want to make an "huge" and awesome update, but this takes a lot of time. You should make small updates, they could be only a few bugfixes or small little things like a new gun, equipment, in-game features (like the shotable glass, explosive barrels?), there are over 1.000 ideas in the "Suggestions" section (just remember last years updates in summer). You should know, that seeing a "McWar Update 20.04.14 Changelog" makes a lot of people happy, even if it's only a few things (When new players see that there are weekly/monthly updates they are going to stay even longer!). This way you gain more time amd remove the pressure of releasing an huge update as soon as possible and you can work on the "recoding/revamping". Make everything step by step and when you get a "huge" thank you from the community.

And when you ask, why you need to do it. It's because you need to give the community something back as a "thank you", because they are the reason why McBrawl can still exsist and they want it to exsist even longer because they donated or dedicated time to it (Moderators, Map Makers, etc.). The donations are useless if the community doesn't see any progess. Yes, there was a host move but they are still unpleased because of the lack of content.

According the "dropping" player numbers: Yes, I think now that this is not going to be a problem any time soon, because there is still a good amount of "experienced" players, so new ones are more likely to join the server.

Not more, there are going to be thousands

I am not mad about the update. I don't like how the communty is treated.

 

What's your solution then?
You are a good developer. Everyone loves your mod. And do you see them asking about updates? Bagging for new features? No. Because you do it the right way: Step by step. Imagine you said: "Here is everything what I want this mod to have. Update is coming soon." Everyone would forget about your mod and you would probably stop developing it further because noone is interested in it. Luckily orange didn't give up!

Look at the bigger server networks, they update everyhing the same "step by step" way, they have about 20 times more servers then McBrawl and manage to update a little miss-spelling in an inventory gui without downtime. Because they are doing it "step by step" (updating server by server, rooting players to other and when they need donwtime, they do an double-xp weekend or give everyone small xp-boosters and afterwards noone is mad about them for the downtime). But it's McBrawls choice: Do they want to be a big network and be able to compete against them and have players who love them? Or do they want to stay how they are? If so. You can ignore everything what I said. But don't forget one realy important thing: The community is not treated as it should be.

 

This is the past. Now it's time to change it!