"have the Minecraft server loaded onto a personal server" Ditto. My kids love it. Finally my "fileserver" CPU has something to do. Doesn't take much resourc

"have the Minecraft server loaded onto a personal server" Ditto. My kids love it. Finally my "fileserver" CPU has something to do. Doesn't take much resources until its ridiculously big/modded. Its fun. It doesn't take much static NAT work for their friends to get access too. The problem is a bathtub curve where anyone can run a server in their basement on an old/free PC for basically no cost and no effort. And there is a use for a huge server with 100s of people on it and massive creativity and hopefully not much griefing and its going to be expensive but worth it. Minecrack will probably always survive? And in between is a medium sized dead zone where nothing can live. In the middle a 10 year old can't pay for it, and it wouldn't be worth paying for anyway. The marketplace looks like journalism. You're always going to have people commenting for free in blogs, and you're always (maybe) going to have the new york times. In between, the market has simply died and blown away and isn't coming back.