Lack of Motivation or Obsessed with Money

[Rainbow]

Lack of Motivation or Obsessed with Money

This is a topic that has been sort of the "peak of my interests" the past few months: Seeing how current and new administrators on games tend to act. I'm a former administrator myself, and I will admit I had my faults for sure, but I've seen a lot of problems from the "newest" administrators. This is just basically my thoughts on it. Feel free to disagree, agree with me, etc. I apologise in advance if per chance I have unknowingly offended anyone with my opinions.

So as I have stated, my main argument is with the new game admins, lately it seems they lack of motivation and dedication. First off, the big deal is: "How did the game come to be"? Often times, when you visit a new game, you expect to see something promising, something fun, come out of it. However, when you get down to earth and find out why the administrator started the game in the first place, things start to fall out of order. Typically, the administrators I've talked to about their games often reiterate the same reasoning for starting a game: "Just for the hell of it" or "4 Teh Moneyz". Now I'm not suggesting you shouldn't start a game if that's your reasoning, but there is more to running a game than just for the hell or the cash. Let us fast forward a few months from the initial start of the game "for the money". The administrator, by this point, is usually disengaged from the game as noone really plays it and uses the reasoning of "well, no one really comes here anymore. It's a waste of my time". This exactly, is the reason why doing a game for the hell of or for the money only is not necessarily my highest recommend idea. The administrator usually gets angry with the game, places the blame on the members, and then shuts the game down thinking "no one cares". A lot of the newer administrators underestimate the value of a dedication and motivation when creating a game. Just because this is the internet, does not mean per say that all boundaries of reality are thrown out the window. Just like real life, if you want to be good at something you need dedication, motivation, and determination.

Another common issue that needs to be addressed is the behavior and attitude of the administrators. A lot of administrators I've known that are just making games do not get that there is secret to getting good staff, good members, and such; You as the administrator, must enforce and surpass to speak, your own rules, and you must keep a positive outlook no matter how "gloomy" the outcome may look for your game. Simply saying "Why do I even bother with this game?" when it is not going the way you want it to is not going to help. In fact, that is just going to negate a lot of the members visits for the most part. Once again, it's never easy, but welcome to life. The administrator is the essential key to the game. Without the administrator, the game does not function as it should, and ultimately will stray off course.

Moving onward, let's tackle how administrators handle the hacking of their games. It's a common issue, and for the most part it gets blown out of proportion quite easily. Hackings usually happen to the upcoming games, and sometimes the "big ones". There are two main reasons for it happening: 1) A personal vendetta between the administrator and someone else who can hack or 2) Just for kicks or 3) They do it to cheat. Hacking, is per say, like bullying, in that you just need to realise that you cannot give in and react negatively or irresponsibly - and just like in bullying it happens to those whom cannot protect themselfs wether physically or securing their code. Angry is motivation - if you get hacked then learn how to secure it. :S

Finally, never under-estimate the value of having a good interaction with your members. Friendliness is the key when you want to have an inviting, nonetheless successful, game. I know that I would NEVER join a game that has an administrator who pushes around his or her members and picks favorites. A game is all about a balance, so to speak, of friendliness, seriousness, and above all fairness. You can't pick favorites when your an administrator of a good game, you just can't. More often than not, just because you know a person better than another doesn't mean they are more qualified for a specific position in terms of staffing. Just keep in mind that you need to be courteous and aware of your members at all times.

So to finish off - secure your game, be friendly and dont give up. Even if the community you have is small it is precious and care for it. No matter what. And I know many here are in it for the quick buck - well I have nothing to say to people like that. Will be interesting to see what people think of these new admins using illegal copies of MC code for some quick cash... what is your opinion?

[Miniman]

Re: Lack of Motivation or Obsessed with Money

This is something I could go on and on about. I'll start with people that are in it for a quick bit of cash....

They usually just upload Mccodes, Throw some crappy content in there and let the users come in and donate. The econemy get's out of controll, the owner has money to spend in real life and now they can abandon the game.

Now about people shutting a game down due to inactivity in the users, even if the game is well thought out and every aspect is planned for fair game play and the owner is decent, the game will end up being shut down. This is because of the effort put into making the game yet only few are active. This, sooner or later begins to un-balance the game and the owner who put alot of effort into gets annoyed and just shuts it down.

I can't agree with you more though on being friendly to members no matter who they are. But this can be very hard with all the players begging you constantly for being staff or for Items, or just generally annoying when they speak to you. :|