Crystaria Online — Donate to the Game

A passion project

Crystaria Online is made by one person, in their spare time, because they wanted this game to exist. It is not a business and it is not trying to become one. There is no company behind it, no investor waiting on a return, and nobody drawing a wage from it.

It does, however, run on a rented server, and that costs real money every month. The game is free, with no shop, no subscription and no advertising, so that bill comes out of one person's own pocket.

You are under no obligation to give anything. This page exists purely for players who have said they would like to help with the running costs and asked how. If that is not you, close this tab with a clear conscience — nothing here is aimed at you, and nothing changes either way.

The short version

If you have enjoyed your time in Crystaria and you happen to have something spare, you can put it toward the server bill. You get nothing for yourself in return. What a donation does buy, it buys for the whole realm at once: every £5 given in a calendar month raises the Realm Blessing by 1% EXP for every player alike, up to 15%, until the month turns. That is set out in full below.

The game will not ask you for it. There is no pop-up, no reminder, no banner, no timed appeal and no message in chat — the Offering shrine in town shows the realm’s current blessing and says where it comes from, and that is the whole of it. This page is somewhere you can find if you go looking.

What the money actually pays for

Every penny goes to keeping the realm online. There is no team and no salary — Crystaria is made by one person in their own time.

Cost	What it is
Server hosting	The machine that runs the world, the database and the chat. The largest cost by far, billed monthly.
Domain name	crystaria-online.com, renewed yearly.
Backups	Off-server copies of the database, so a bad day never costs you your character.
Headroom	When more players arrive, the server needs to grow. Anything left over goes here first.

If donations ever exceeded the running costs, the surplus would go straight back into the same list — a bigger server, better backups. It is not income.

What you get in return: the same as everyone else

This is the important part, so it is spelled out in full. A donation buys you no personal advantage of any kind. It raises the Realm Blessing — a share of extra EXP that every player receives alike, whether they gave or not — and nothing else:

No items, gold, essences or materials.
No stats, levels or rebirths for your own character. The EXP blessing is realm-wide and identical for all, and it is the only thing a donation touches.
No titles, cosmetics, nameplates or chat colours.
No early access to patches, zones or classes.
No priority on support tickets, bug reports or suggestions.
No badge, no supporter list, no public thank-you. Your account is not marked in any way, and nobody else can tell.

Crystaria is a game where the only things that separate two players are the hours they have put in and the choices they have made. A donation cannot buy a shortcut past that — what it buys, it buys for everyone at once, and two players stand exactly where they stood before.

This page does not read or write your account. You do not need to be logged in, and nothing you do here is recorded against your character.

Please don't donate if…

You need the money. Genuinely — play the game instead, it is free and it always will be.
You are under 18 and it is not your money to give. Ask whoever pays the card first.
You are expecting something for yourself. The blessing is shared by every player alike, and nothing else will be added.
You want to influence what gets built. Suggestions are welcome from everyone, through the in-game report form, and they are weighed the same whoever sends them.

A donation is a gift toward the server bill, not a purchase. All donations are non-returnable. The blessing it raises belongs to the realm as a whole and cannot be handed back, so please only give what you are content to part with.

How to help

Only if you want to, and only if it costs you nothing you will miss. Any amount is genuinely appreciated, however small, and a one-off is perfectly fine — there is no recurring option, no suggested amount and no upsell waiting on the other side.

Crystaria is a passion project, free to all

No personal perks — a blessing for the whole realm, and a world worth keeping online.

or open PayPal directly →

Payment is handled entirely by PayPal on their own pages. Crystaria never sees or stores your card details, and no payment information ever reaches this server. The button above is PayPal's own, loaded from PayPal.

Other ways to help, all of them free

Money is the least interesting way to support a small game, and it is genuinely not the most useful. These matter more:

Report bugs. The in-game report form reaches the person who can fix it, usually the same day.
Send suggestions. A great many of the systems in the game started as a player's message.
Help new players. Answering a question in chat is worth more than a donation.
Write for the Wiki. It is player-editable, and it is how most people learn the game.
Tell someone. A recommendation to one friend does more than any advert.

Questions

If anything on this page is unclear, or you want to check something before giving anything, please ask first:

Email: admin@crystaria-online.com

And thank you for playing — that part was never conditional on anything. Players turning up and enjoying the place is the reason it gets built.

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