Instead of Trying to Advertise...

Nice post, hope it helps people understand, and not have a lot of those "Brawl is dying" posts.
I agree with pretty much anything you wrote here I think the tags will help a bit with the money.

 

insert big forehead here
good thread

 

I align with just about everything you said. I think one key thing is to make voting more lucrative, because it not only makes hard gamemodes easier with access to in-game rewards, but advertises the server. Raid can be easily tweaked to make it more friendly, however severs like WW and WarZ need reworks as you said, in my opinion.

 

I agree with almost everything you said and was stated above by other players.

This is true though everyone expresses his own opinion of the server. Brawl indeed faces a player count fall though this isn't just the case. We ought to get more Developers because of the fact that they are not enough but Brawl has not enough money and, therefore, they cannot be afforded. Updates and reworks would make gamemodes more popular and, consequently, help the player count rise but not all of them need them. Servers such as Minecraft Build (or maybe only Build itself) are meant to stay like that.

There needs to be found a way to keep players into the server but most of the gamemodes are PvP based and have a level up system. I find War hard because of the fact that I wasn't a Beta player, so I couldn't have leveled up. Now that I joined it some months ago I always find my self killed by some rapid gun I do not have access to or afford. This doesn't annoy me but it might annoy other newcomers and cause them to leave.

I am hoping for a more noob friendly server in the future. This can only be achieved by reworks.

 

Maybe simple games everyone knows how to play. Like Skyblock, Skywars (PLEASE!), Prison, etc.

I know these don't sound 'Brawl like' games, but it could help.

 

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1) Personally, I feel the best way to get more players to stick with the gamemode, is by having a tutorial in the beginning of each of the servers when they join (like the bubbles over NPC's heads.) No one reads the books, because it takes too much time, (and people are lazy nowadays.) I don't believe many people look for videos on how to play a certain gamemode, so that's out of the picture as well.

2) I've thought about this way back when. Some servers have it so you need to register to the forums before you are able to play gamemodes. Would it be useful to add this into Brawl?

1a, 2a) (Pertaining to #1 & #2) If this is implemented, would it be possible, so that when the newly registered player clicks the forum header for a certain gamemode, it could offer them a link to a newly updated tutorial? Giggadreams, from I believe 2-3 years ago, was extremely funny, and he got the basics down... but what if this newly updated tutorial went into detail about all the items instead of just the rough overview of them. I have ideas for this if needed.

4) I agree with what @JaydenChadd stated above. Simple games that players know how to play, but add some twists to them. We've had a nice gamemode like this in the past (SGG) and as soon as that was removed, it seemed like many people missed it and wished it would come back.
Examples for these:
Sky Wars w/ Guns
The Walls w/ Guns
Skyblock - custom plugins that make it more exciting.
Prison - bosses to face before you are able to advance to the next ward or something exciting like that.
Then just simple gamemodes:
Draw My Thing
Build It! (Gives you something to build, you build it)

Some gamemodes could just be incorporated into Minecraft Party as well.

Just a couple ideas, ask me some questions if you are confused and I'll clarify what I meant / what it would do.

 

The thing with advertising is that it doesn't anyways work. I'm assuming most peple are using party as an example, but party was guaranteed success from the beginning.

The reason party was created was because other servers were starting to do it, so we wanted to include ours as well to stay on top of the competition. Sky advertising certainly helped, but this was at the front end of the "age of shorter gamemodes" so party was the popular gamemode of the time. It would've done well even without the advertising, especially since it was recently released.

Giving my two cents, what I believe we should do should be to take a look at other servers and what gamemodes are popular for them and then take a look at what's popular overall. I've had multiple people tell me, when asked why they don't play certain gamemodes on brawl, that the reason they're turned off from playing is because they're in-depth, which is what @SoCool21 first mentioned. He's absolutely right.

I know that brawl likes to be unique with their gamemodes, but uniqueness only helps if people notice it (which they aren't right now). People looking for servers are looking for a specific type of gamemode to play. If the server doesn't have that, that's when they give the games they do have a try, but no sooner.

A good way to take advan tag of this would be to use the most popular gamemodes and code those with extra features to them. (Disclaimer: when I mean extra features I don't mean more in-depth additions. Im referring to possibly different cosmetics or cooler map designs. Something people don't have to learn)

Some popular gamemodes that @WarSkater mentioned above would be great. I realize brawl wants to be different, but brawl needs to have a much larger active player base first in order to create new trends. A good analogy would be to take a look at the popular kids in school. They typically set the trends for what's cool to do and wear in school. Take that for what it is, but it holds true for most organizations. Create games along the themes of what people are looking for, keep them simple, and watch brawl prosper. No advertising needed. If the gamemode is popular, people will come.

 

Some of you guys are forgetting something. Adding new game modes may attract more players and prompt more players to stay, but with the addition of new game modes comes less players in each game mode. To have new game modes be successful, we need more players so that each game mode can have enough players to function. Instead of adding new game modes, we should focus on improving the ones we already have.