Options to "revive" (save) Freelancer

Bas

However, I am going to e-mail 4players.de to add the GLS-Workaround to the Freelancer-download and ask them if they could write a news.

I would like declare the GLS Workaround as “Multiplayer Patch” because it is the easiest description.

Does anyone have something agianst this plan?
(I also need the permission fromthe GLS autor - W0dk4.)

Freelancer at 4players:
http://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfo/PC-CDROM/1235/Freelancer.html

(unfortunaly german)

I am also going to mail some other game communites which wrote an article about Freelancer to add the “Multiplayer Patch” in the description.
(I would like to ask for a general permission to spread the GLS - Workaround around everywhere I want to - I dont think autors would be against it, but I prefer clear permissions.)

w0dk4

Please spread the GLS Workaround v1.0, download at
http://stats.freelancerserver.de/

It includes a redirect of FL.exe to Crazy’s new GLS server, so its more secure as regards downtimes of crazys GLS or freelancerserver.de.

Bas

4Players accepted the patch and uploaded it to their server
http://www.4players.de/4players.php/download_info/PC-CDROM/Download/49418.html
(Took more time because some ppl there were on vocation ;))

Datum [Date]: 18.08.08
Anzahl Downloads [Number of Downloads]: 23

Thats incredible how it got spread around - One day and 20 downloads

Roo Avery

Good work Bas. Nicely done. ;D ;D

Bas

bump tha whol thing
(sent a mail to Gamestar magazine hope they may took it at CD - Yeah, then I guess we would reach very much ppl :P)

cheeseontoast

good work Bas

Bas

However, didnt got a reply from GS magazine till yet.

BUT I started a [email protected], and it really seems that the most newbies found their way to FL MP through google. So our aim should… - NO, IT MUST BE SEO.

Roo Avery

Nicely done BAS.

I am kinda free from committments right now. So if I can help, please email me [email protected].

R

Bas

my personal idea is too increase the SEO by using very directly domain names and meta tags like freelancer-patch.de.vu, freelancer-multiplayer.info, freelancer-server-online.blabla etc. and redirect them to a GLS Workaround download-page

Hm - and it even wouldnt be that hard ^^

(afaik domain names are a very important searching creteria for search-engines.

NOTE: I am a noob at that, so dont rely on my guessing ^^)

Worfeh

hmm, we could do that on a few domains as well… but the real domain name is the most important part of it.

Bas

Rooiiieeee, added ya to MSN, mate.

Bas

Have talked directly to xfb4it (via IM) and she will redirect my e-mail to a other staff member who is responsible for hosting patches @ http://www.xfire.com (Yeah I know that ya can connect via xfire to the servers but many newbies dont know, I got whispered then and then how I was able to play at a server)

Roo Avery

@Bas:

Rooiiieeee, added ya to MSN, mate.

Who me?

Chips

Wonder if it’d be easy for MS to add FL to Steam’s online shop?

I imagine, at a couple of quid, it’d be possible for it to draw in a new crowd of players? Anyone know any contacts?

? Offline

No, but it’s a jolly fine idea

Roo Avery

I know someone…

I will ask and see if she can put the idea into the right peoples head.

Vesko

I can email a few Serbian and Croatian PC magazines (I send them enough emails anyway, they practically know me lol :D), I was actually planning to do a similar thing recently.

If we could all put our efforts together, with this community from all over the world, we have the means to start a Freelancer revolution!

Xarian_Prime

Adding FL to steam would see the end of “us”…
Just look at how modifiable other added titles have become since
being integrated… that’s a huge 0… Steam rewites the code to be compliant with… er… steam… & nothing else… a few games have survived this… but there SP titles only, MP must comply with the VAC

All the above is good… just do yeselfs a BIG favor and stay away from myspace gaming forums… I was roasted by a admin there for trying to revive/start a FL movement… they were quite rude about it actually…

Quote:- “no one gives a S*%t”

To be honest… (in AUS) if it wasn’t for that fateful day i had some Xmas $$ and requested a trip to EB to spend it… I would have never found FL as that’s the only copy I’ve ever seen on the shelves… that was 7 years ago… I get treated like some silly hippy retro freak if i even mention it to store owner/managers… even from my friends.

That said… there is still a glimmer of light in the fact our only real PC game mag down here does a mod section… & FL has appeared at least every 16 months or so… so obviously… were doing something right…

Trainwiz

What are you talking about? Nearly any moddable game that’s been added to steam is still just as moddable, with the exceptions perhaps being some more complex mods for some other games, games don’t loose their moddability

Grey_Wolf

Huh???
OH, In the older games like Freelancer your only talking about the Valve Games Aren’t You…

I hear the Non-Valve older titles are quite “Eunuched” and “Sterilized” in the MOD area to fit into Steam.

Trainwiz wrote:
What are you talking about? Nearly any moddable game that’s been added to steam is still just as moddable, with the exceptions perhaps being some more complex mods for some other games, games don’t loose their moddability