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Community & Growth Guides

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Community & Growth

Tips for Streaming Your Gameplay and Building an Audience

Streaming your game server is a good way to grow both a following and your community. These seven tips cover engaging your chat, planning, sponsorships, consistency and staying positive.

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How to Promote Your Game Server and Find Players

The in-game server list will not bring you players. Build your own presence with a Discord and website, list on server ranking sites, and post where the game's community gathers, while staying inside the publisher's rules.

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Community & Growth

How to Make Your Game Server Pay for Itself

Many server owners turn a monthly cost into a hobby that covers its own bills, or earns a little extra. Here are the main ways to monetise a game server, and the rules to check first.

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How to Keep Your Game Server Players Active and Engaged

Growing a player base is only half the job. These five habits help you keep the players you have: be present, involve your community, hold events, stay fair and deal with toxic behaviour quickly.

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Community & Growth

How to Keep Your Game Server Fresh Between Updates

Players burn through new game content far faster than developers can make it. Use mods, community votes, events and planned wipes to keep your server interesting between patches.

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How to Build a Thriving Game Server Community: 9 Steps

Finding players is the hardest part of running a game server. These nine steps cover how to prepare, where to advertise, and how to turn a handful of players into a community that lasts.

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