Imaginears Club has provided fun and MAGIC for families for ~5 incredible years. We’ve won awards, hosted conventions and even achieved a world record. All of that has been amazing. However, even though it has increased our Guest count (which we LOVE!), it has not increased our incoming donations.
We run with your continued support. Your donations keep our servers running, our plugins developing and our plans moving forward. Everything that happens is thanks to our wonderful Guests and their generosity.
We want to be able to continue to provide the safest, cleanest and most family-oriented experience in the most fun and unique ways possible. That takes more than we earn, at the moment, though.
Recently, donations have begun to drop, even as the number of Guests continues to increase. Because of that, our needs now outweigh our obligations. At our current rate, it is difficult for us to enhance and expand the Guest experience and further improve and develop our servers. We want to be able to add new games, servers, plugins, Cast Members, conventions and more, but it simply is not possible without your support.
Also, we have had to endure attacks on our network from individuals who sadly do not want to see us continue. Bringing our network down hurts you, our Valued Guests, and your families.
We’re asking all our Guests to share this in the hopes that we’ll find many (or even a couple of large) donations to help us continue to flourish and grow. We know you believe in family-friendly entertainment. We know you have a MAGICAL time on Imaginears Club. We know you want to see that continue. We’re just asking for a little help getting there.
Here is some of what your donations go towards:
- Servers – We have 5, but have started to exceed their capacity. They cost us, roughly, about $1000 a month
- Plugin development – MagicBands, games and more are handled by this. With github and the software, this is about $200 a month
- DDoS mitigation – We have sometimes lost network stability due to attacks and need to purchase this – Would cost us about $400 a month
- Buycraft – This is our donations portal. We pay for the basic plan, but we’d like to expand to the enterprise plan at over $250 a month.
- PayPal – This includes handling unexpected bills like when someone contests their valid donation and we have to pay $20 each time to PayPal to resolve it. Last month it cost us $250. For us, that is a lot of money.
- Research and development – This can be visits to the parks to gather needed info and images of rides, shows and attractions or software and schematics to do the same. Roughly: $500 a month
- Legitimacy – Finalizing on our goal to become a valid entity with a name and title. Cost: about $2500
That is thousands a month in bills, right now.
As you can see, we have more going out than coming in and I continue to foot the bill, personally, where I can. Still, I know out of the more than half a million Guests we have had, at least a few of them can afford to donate large amounts to help us offer this MAGICAL place to more families around the world. If every Guest who visited Imaginears Club offered us $1 each we’d have $500,000+! Now, imagine just 10,000 of you giving small amounts and you can see how helpful that can be.
So please, do whatever you can to share this, blast this on social media, or donate to help us continue to offer the safest, most fun place to play in Minecraft and quite possibly all of the gaming world.
Visit http://store.imaginears.club and make any sized donation, today! You may also contact us at [email protected] for other options to donate large amounts.
Thank you for your continued support.
Sincerely,
David Wasman – Owner and Founder of imaginears
