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Originally Posted by Danirian
Thank you all for your replies. @ [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] is it because people get bored or the admin is unable to maintain it financially due to no items or things to be purchased? In my opinion the second reason makes sense to me.
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Both.
PVP servers are only fun to play if there's a large population of players. If there's no reason for a player to keep playing for months and months then you will soon have your population lose interest making it harder to attract new players. This is a loop which results in the server dying quite quickly.
PVP servers are hard to monitize because anything you sell can be viewed as useless or else it's viewed as selling strength. Either way is harder to make money than doing a leveling server where you can sell convenience and style and other similar features that people desperately want month to month.
PVP servers have a limited number of types of content you can develop... no one cares about some gimmick quest you wrote because no one wants to deal with monsters, it's pvp. There's only so many FBSS events or other tournaments you can write before you burn yourself and your players out and have nothing new to add. Given PVP servers need events to run more often, players get bored of the events that much faster meaning that much more work for developers... it's a losing battle.
TL-DR PVP servers are a bad idea for developers. Yes some players like them but it's the typical player wanting something that they will get bored of fast and never pay for.