When FreebieServers.com first launched, we had a single virtual machine and an idea: to bring the Freemium business model to the Game Server world, and in the process provide a free gaming platform for users to grow and cultivate a community. We started using a host of third-party applications to help us realize this idea, and while it had been a difficult job getting the different systems to work together, we’ve gotten our software to a point that works - in its own way.
Once we started seeing that our idea was not only popular but made a good business model, we realized that these tools were not enough to help our business grow in a way that was not only easy to manage from our viewpoint, but easy to handle from our client’s viewpoint as well. Knowing that in the Freemium model presentation is a large part of success, we decided to start development our own tools to take FreebieServers.com into the next generation of game serving, and that meant replacing these third-party tools that we use to manage and govern our systems.
Two months ago, around the beginning of November 2014, we began fundraising for development of these new tools. Small loans for specific projects evolved into crowdfunding from the NXT Community Marketing Committee, and this has allowed us to begin development of our own systems to replace these third party programs. The primary third-party software we use, GameCP, has been a huge help in providing the platform to actually serve game servers to our clients. This tool was not designed with our business model in mind however, and thus has been the focus of the majority of our development: a replacement for GameCP that can give us all the tools necessary to provide game servers with our Freemium business model in mind.
Due directly to the investment from the NXT community, we have managed to develop a system as robust as GameCP in a fraction of GameCP’s development time - 2 months versus 10 years - and this has allowed us to customize how we provide game servers to our clients and implement the first ever micro-transaction-based business model in the game server industry. This also allows us to present our goods with a direct connection to advertising partners and the NXT community, ensuring global spread and delivery of meaningful content.
FreebieserversOur new game server panel allows us to not only provide free game servers reliably and consistently (a feature that GameCP found lacking at times due to our unique model), but also allows us to provide an actual value to our goods using a cryptocurrency - NXTCoin. This symbiotic partnership we have cultivated not only allows us to accept many different currencies beyond the USD, but also helps spread the value of NXTCoin specifically and cryptocurriencies as a whole, by using them as our primary virtual currency system. Other Freemium business models (most commonly Free-to-Play video games) utilize this virtual currency system to value their goods within their own system, instead we use an actual currency giving our target demographic of over 14 million gamers worldwide a direct correlation between the value of their virtual goods and a cryptocurrency.
Now that our new panel is able to provide reliable game serving to our clients, our goals for the near future are to provide intelligent advertising solutions to bring a consistent revenue stream to speed development of our infrastructure. As part of our new system, we can ensure delivery of advertisement content to our users in a meaningful way thanks to in-game MOTD advertisements served by way of custom plugins and in-site modal popups with advanced regional-based offers. The combination of these technologies allows us to provide premium Tier 1 advertisement hits to any affiliate partners, the track record of which has already been proven via such services as Pinion.gg and MyNXT.info. Users who sign up for our services are more likely to adopt the product that we advertise due to the targeted methods we use to serve and enforce ads.
In the near future, our infrastructure expansion will likely involve a cloud solution giving us the ability to server game servers all over the world. Our current model does not provide the elasticity we need to serve game servers around the world, and directly impacts our advertisement delivery. To that end, one of the major expenses in the coming future is the shift from bare metal to cloud, which is overall a more expensive solution, but has a greater potential for growth overall. By making direct partnerships with various advertising solutions, we can provide consistent and intelligent marketing to users all over the world via direct in-game MOTD video and banner ads, CPL signups delivered via modal popups on our website, and any other method we can craft into our system without presenting it in a manner that will drive users away.
We plan on a number of additional revenue streams to maximize our growth potential, including licensing of our new panel software for others to use, creating a commodity-based virtual goods betting system, and the introduction of the first-ever gamer related cryptocurrency - backed by NXTCoin. The diversification of these revenue streams ensures the long-term viability of our business model and the meaningful spread of cryptocurrency to a market more than willing to utilize it in a way that increases the value overall.
Previews
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1.2 In-server video’s We have a combined capacity of delivering over 500,000 impressions every month on our servers between multiple game sessions held while a user is on our server. We intend to form partnership with a variety of coins/communities to help further spread details about what the tech offers and why its important
1.3 Banner ads. We are able to deliver multiple banner ads between game sessions and on-site to users from across the globe with minimal interruptions to gamers. As long as the product relates to what the users require / the demographic relates to what mentoned, we’ve seen a reasonably high level of interest spurt out of the variety of banner ads we’ve displayed in the past ad we intend to tap on this to further move ahead
The following are 3 places we strongly see Nxt being integrated Game item exchanges.In order to further bring in added revenue to the company, we are actively looking at making an exchange for the trade and exchange of game items. Users will be allowed to sell/purchase game items at under-market rates from our exchange utilizing Nxt. How does Nxt come in the picture? Most pay processing companies charge high rates for micro-transactions. Utilizing the speed and low transaction rates Nxt utilizes we’ll be able to tap on to the wide market that lies for game items. Think of it this way : How much will nxt benefit if we see atleast a fraction of the billion dollar industry that deals with game items moving into our platform and have them utilize Nxt?
Gambling + Game items ?We intend to roll out an -in-house gambling platform that focuses on game items. Game items are commodity and can often be traded for actual currency. We intend to develop a gambling platform that enables players to bet game items and either cash it out into nxt or just have game items sent back to them. We have this at the top of our priority list and will be rolling this out as soon as our current panel is shipped succesfully. Transactional volumes will be large enough to add value to the network. I’ll be willing to share further details on this with the admins, but would prefer to refrain posting much information on this - given its sensitive nature.
http:// Gamer team sponsorships. Over the past month we’ve had a number of globally ranked teams reaching out to us, looking forward to working with us on FS promotions. We intend to have nxt and FS logo imprinted on their jerseys as they move ahead with their career. FS will be promoting gamer merchandise and servers required for them to trade. This helps us establish ourselves as an emerging platform and put word out there. Think of the impact the Nascar campaign had on the value of Doge? Imagine we could pull that out for Nxt every other week? That’s exactly what we intend to do for nxt with our partnership with high end gamers from across the globe. I’ll be very willing to share conversations with a number of globally ranked players with a total reach that cross over half a million users with the admins here.
We are raising funds for the same cause.
We intend to work with a variety of crypto's and anyone is welcome for a collaboration with what we're trying to build.
If you'd like to donate to our cause you may send us coins to the following wallets
Nxt : NXT-8MLD-T9Q8-NE6E-53MSM
Btc: 193bgtfvAE7PAksacWUaGKKPw9thuV8jsn
