Where do you get such prices? I know there are all sorts of legends about me, but it's pretty simple. We rent servers—either directly or from Roman (MCWA), who gives my clients good discounts. I can't give you exact prices right now, but roughly: the last time we rented VPS, it was
$29 ; web hosting was
$30–35 ; proxies for Russian players (for the website and the game) are currently around
$60 ; and proxy protection for game servers from DDoS attacks is around
$100 per month .
We also offer Active Anti-Cheat at a discount, as well as all other announcers and public pages for game servers. We've never aimed to make money from reselling. I understand the needs and pain points of every client, because the current market situation: if you order a Perfect interface for
$500-$750 , buy items from client developers for
$500-$1,500 (including maps and customization), these prices sometimes reach
$3,000 —for the "uniqueness," so to speak. Plus, Active Anti-Cheat at launch costs
$300 , while for our clients it's
$200 . Adding equipment and advertising on all announcers brings the total to around
$3,500 , even with discounted gold VIP packages.
As a result, a person spends
$5,000–$7,000 on these things alone , even before they've even launched a server. They also come to us, commission some work, or opt for Lucera, which is cheaper than our build. And now—no one's lying—I recommend Deazer in all formats to all my recent clients, just as I did when I started working with a large server, which has now become popular.
Ultimately, a person shells out
$10,000–$13,000 to open a business, and hopefully they'll be lucky enough to recoup that money on the first try. But in most cases, they encounter DDoS attacks, problems, and so on.
Regarding the client currently in arbitration: Guys, you can talk however you want and write whatever you want. My goal was to get the server off the ground—a good x1 project, and he knows it; we discussed it. We were building a server that could have been at the peak of popularity by now if the release had taken place in 2023. The goal wasn't to take
$3,000 and just hand it over, but we negotiated
a percentage of the revenue and continued product development. We thought through the little details: the design, the logo, the build, new custom events—I could write about this for ages. I probably could have shown it, but definitely not today or this month—my schedule is busy. Anyway, that's my point—it's all just poetry.
You can portray me as whoever you want or make any assumptions about me, but the fact remains: I've never blatantly ripped anyone off, working in this field since
2009. Many admins have grown up based on my articles and manuals—just like old-school guys like
@Deazer and many others. I've made many mistakes, but I never denied them and always went out of my way to accommodate every client. If I screwed up and missed deadlines, I apologized, either worked off the missed deadlines, or compensated them financially. There were cases where I gave
a full moneyback of up to
$10,000 due to client losses.
There were also situations when transactions worth around
$70,000 were conducted through me , and in not a single case, while I was an arbitrator, was a single file ever lost, sold, shared, etc.