Accepted [All Main Servers Suggestion] Monthly Subscription Kit

I would be highly surprised if 25 people are willing to commit to $30-$50 a month for ONE minecraft server. Even with your suggestion of 25 people, that's likely just enough for maintenence, development will require much more than that.
Welcome to the Revelation.

 

I came up with some sort of list of possible perks/features to include in this kit, https://prnt.sc/Eyh_YMCKxXuu. If you would like to add let me know.

 

I'm going to be honest, if we were pulling our player count that we were pulling even a year ago, this wouldn't be a bad suggestion in full, but sadly, the player count is struggling as is & newer players are feeling isolated with the current P2W dichotomy. Maybe if the economy is more stabilized/less inflated we could revisit something like this

 

Even if you get half that, at 12.5 people (yes i know .5 of a person doesnt exist, but lets assume for sake of simplicity), you're sitting at $250-$375-$500 based on what the subscription costs (20, 30, 40/month). Based on the screenshot Andrew provided of server costs, we're sitting at a minimum of 40% of the monthly costs alone (using $624 as the figure and $20/month for the subscription).
I'm sure for a large amount of our sponsors/mega donors, $20/month isn't the end of the world. Not for everyone, and to put it in a cliche, $20 is literally 3-4 coffees at starbucks these days.
What the suggestion and some comments discount is the fact that on top of the subscription, the base feats will still be on sale. The store pulled in the monthly amount for next month yesterday, and was sitting ~ 50% for some time prior to then. So its really a combination that is needed for survival, not one or the other (although the other is more variable).
Now, that is surviving, not additional development/advertising. However, I think what a key portion to getting more people online is skyblock. Even if there were just a lot of afk alts on, it makes playercount look better and some people enjoy skyblock. Comes down to prioritizing what was popular in development.
Now, what andrew alluded to was burnout, which is entirely fair. At that point, subscriptions wont matter if no one feels motivated enough to run the server for the future. Burnout is super real and if that is the case, then maybe we can look to another way to tackle that as a community, but that is something else

 

Okay, so I stewed on the possibility of a subscription-based feature. Here's my suggestion, which I believe would be better for our current dichotomy (and can help newer players who purchase it). Maybe Call it something like Eco+

- Make it $10-$20. No more than $25 (if there are hella good things added)
- A sell bonus. Maybe like 5% so long as the subscription is active
- MCMMO levels. Maybe like 25 a month
- 2-5 spawner keys per server (added to the account holder)
- 2-5 egg keys on main (added to the account holder)
- 2 mojang keys on main (added to the account holder)
- Special discord role & CTag ingame [Eco+]
- Exclusive crate spin per month (which can have ECD, crate keys, gems, nstars, lored items, etc.)

This is just what I thought up on the fly.

Edit: Maybe make it too that if you are an active subscriber to the subscription for a year, you get increased benefits of some sort

 

Subscription packages are coming to ECC, and they aren't really anything as is listed above, but it's something I'm sure many will find to be a good idea.