Good Thread and actually some good news for once in this server.
To be blunt and short about it, what matters most for this server is to first see the community's perspective, and also into a business perspective.
For The Community: This is what a Community Manager should look into and also what players should think about. What made people play this server in the first place? Why did TMD PVP get super competitive and popular? What types of game modes and updates stood their ground and what has miserably failed? Another thing is, do you people wonder why a lot of the community who quit the game or barely play are still irrationally passionate about the server? Who are also the attributes, the real attributes that caused the downfall to the playerbase? I'm tired from bull****/****posts of the same things either from the same ppl or staff, maybe a conversation in the DMs or in a voicechat would be best. Learn from these failures to make the server more successful. Have less radical and close-minded ideas and be open for change, but not radical change. Understand things backfire and people should take responsibility for it and improve.
To Keep The Server Running: A bit straight forward here, Owners stop creating projects that either don't work or nobody here will play ffs. Focus on cosmetics or exclusive mods/items and invest into servers that will generate the goods for the server to stay alive. TMDPVE for instance, probably is still one of the still standing servers that gets more then 50 players on consistently. Ask the PVE community for what they want for the future of PVE and exclusive accessories/items. Hire more developers and promote the server especially in advertisement. Find actual promoters who would bring players in who would actually become part of the loyal playerbase unlike what happened with Jahango and the PVP community.
For Staff: It's not that bad *maybe* right now, but learn from the not so shiny past with staff and the community. Get rid or enforce penalties especially for offenders who do it all the time. Do better staff training especially for the common offenses and especially for cheating/hacking. Get more people with thicker skin ffs, I'm assuming the staff now should have thicker skin now, since I know that some of them were actually notable players before they were staff. Interact more with the community, no more snooping and hiding around, and use the discord voice chats cowards( hey the people who do, you're the heroes).
Tbh I didn't answer the question, because all three plans are tough and should be strictly and seriously evaluated because of the changes that will occur mainly for PVP. I think we should see what brings the dough and the players, and what is the reason why a lot of our old players left for good due to internal reasons like how the server isn't what it used to be or how messed up it became. Focus on the internal problems, with Owners having their duct strapped on their mouths and staff members who keep acting upon them and becoming their meat shield. Take responsibility and be more transparent. Hire people like
@BryceBAM who are competent and knows how to moderate/administrate in some sort of way and humble yourself down and ask others for advice
Goddammit this wasn't blunt or short, let's see what happens and I guess it's time to make super long in depth rants/threads again.
Btw, if people keep playing MW and have it generating enough monie bring that **** back unless you sold it.
