I've stopped playing pservers a year ago and i am not planning to do so unless someone takes it seriously and professionally while taking it further, if doesn't happen then DO it's just dead to me.
By that i mean, i hope people start adopting this kind of thinking.
Stop wasting time with useless servers with no future, let this game die until someone decide to revive it for real like it's financial lifestyle depends on it for a good living. Otherwise you already know what happens, server dies within a month, people start leaving, you realise there's no future, that the staff sucks, that the owner instead of making sense, acts like a mongol, or you just get yourself into a genjutsu like PinkGalaxy, then after a year you realise you've spent part of your lifetime money feeding a shit owner who doesn't takes it seriouslly and just do whatever benefits himself making ur friends leave the game until you wanna leave tho, etc. Spare yourself from that.
So, imo what would make a game playable:
- Good + attractive structure and UI
- Smooth performance
- Nostalgia
- Diversity of tools to use during a fight
- Quests which makes sense and really reward you at the end
- Continuous updates and limited interaction with the community from the staff
- Carefully choosing the rest of the staft from the owner
- Country doesn't matter
- Monetary income to keep the server alive and get a reason to keep it
- No P2W
- Listen to the community as long as it makes sense (DO comunity is just stupid)
- Security + backup
- Etc