Are Freelancer player numbers raising now?
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Due to Discoverys 4.85 release we have seen quite a surge in FL players… we have yet to see how this develops towards winter, but I can say that player numbers have been rather constant for the last 2 or 3 years.
Maybe we can get back to 1000 online players at a time with some awesome mod releases coming up, so I wouldnt write off Freelancer just yet
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Of course not, hehe - But we shall keep up our PR work
Roo….>.< :X
But I also guess it is because of gametap.com - Considering how many guys there do play FL - Maybe we should do some adverts there, because ppl who have a premium account can try out FL for 0€ - As they already pay for their account and it doesn’t make any difference how many games they are playing… -
Wasn’t it GameTap that disallowed mods? If that’s so, it probably doesn’t have much of an impact - more than half of the top 10 servers use mods, meaning GameTap subscribers won’t be playing there.
I’m thinking lots of those GameTap people actually play single player and haven’t really heard about the multiplayer community.
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Eh, have posted there that MP is still alive etc. pp.
Plus if I understood it properly, it is just that GT isn’t allowed to include mods/fanfixes into the retail versions, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t work.
(+ GT said somethings about that they are going to do somethings about modifications…maybe some mod areas or so) -
I recall games were encrypted and therefore couldn’t be modified.
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However, even if this is true, then they can at least pay SP and migth switch over to MP (maybe they can change the line in freelancer.ini, though), and they might purchase the game later or so.
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PS: Roo, can we talk later at MSN about the mass-mail to the TLR archive members?
oh hell yes… please do!.. alot of older/gone modders are un-contactable maybe that might bring some back out
of wherever there hiding…As for player #'s… this always happens… it goes up… we all get happy… then it goes back down… and we all wonder “why?”
no reason really… on both accounts… RL is a real killer for some… others its a seasonal thing… not everyone sees FL with the same vigor as you or I bas… (sad yes but true).Plus the growing amount of OSP/SP mods might have a thing to do with it… when the numbers decline…
also… servers using kick tech… and not being aware that some countries have installed “nanny” sofware on the major
Outlink Hubs to the world… i know Australia has it now… and it added about 100-50ms to my ping everywhere! I try to
play on a Euro server and i get kicked every 10 min… a USA server… no probs… this made me “shuffle” were i play… and when i play… i dare say alot of others near AUS have the same problem… (ever wondered why AUS has next to no FL players??.. now u know)we can only real hope it continues to rise… and those that join stay… ;D
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No change whatsoever.
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http://www.flserver.de/topservers7d.php
Were the numbers in the past not like ~350 players in avergae or so?
