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What if the computer got shut down during Singapore's Earth Hour and the guy in charge of the computer doesn't know how to turn it back on and then we're just sitting here hitting out at MCGamer for shutting down the AS servers while they're trying to get it back up again?
For this part, how would you tell if we get that many people, because AS is shut down. I am a US player but I on the rare occasion play on AS as it is fun, not a lot of hackers, and no lag
But the reality of the matter is that having dedicated AS servers is not feasible, and thus a shutdown as inevitable. No matter how many friends you may have met, no matter how many games you may have played, no matter how much you love the servers, there's no getting around the fact that such servers cost money and time which must be paid for. And there were not enough Premium Rank upgrades from the AS region to justify the costs on a month-to-month basis. The other regions have a population large enough to have enough regular Premium Ranked members to be sustainable for all, but the AS region was too small to maintain that same dynamic. Unless a section of the AS playerbase suddenly devotes itself to the price of monthly upgrades (something I doubt players would be willing to do), bringing back AS just isn't practical.
And even then, I can't guarantee it'll be enough. Servers and such are more costly than you might think, even for a region as small as AS. Not only are we talking a substantial initial sum of money to get the servers started, but then you'd need to have a enough regular income month-to-month for the maintenance of the AS region. If you folks are thinking about a long-term lifespan (i.e. more than 3 months), you're going to need to front some serious capital, more than I believe the average player base of that size would be willing to give.So as we can see from Col_StaR response, your only option is to donate. Maybe if it means that much to you, make another thread with the list of people willing to donate, also putting their amount. I'm sure the amount donated could be calculated to time, giving you months depending on the donations
Servers don't grow on trees. And even if they did, we'd still need to pay whoever owns the tree for the good it produces.
As Col_StaR stated above this, the matter that having friends and a close community wont help anything. The fact is, per month, MCGamer wasn't getting enough donations to keep the server up while running the other 300 someodd servers we have, ontop of that we have keeping the XenForo up (which is 140$ a month I believe). From a financial standpoint it was very unconventional to keep the AS network running, it was too much money.
XenForo costs yearly for support updates, not monthly.
I've joined US servers, and even during peak times there are rarely servers that are not empty. During non-peak times there are usually 20+ servers that are completely empty.
Prime Time on weekends there is none empty. Also the fact that Hive has opened there US server and some left to try it out. We just wait till that balances out again (Hive is full of bad players) and most MCSG people like a challenge.
