I also suspected it but after reading John's email, i doubt it.
-ics
14.12.2010 11:06, DarthNinja kirjoitti:
Killing Floor might just be part of the Treasure event you know... ;)
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:48 AM, ics<i...@ics-base.net> wrote:
I'm not in any of the marketing department of any
firm/company/developer/etc but as a server admin and as the odd man out, i
know from experience, reading related announcements from Valve and looking
how games shift in the Steam top sold games and looking our servers that
even a slight sale will rapidly increase how the game sells. Note that i
don't even have access to the detailed data like developers do and Valve
too.
The "jungle drums" have been talking about these items and many TF2 players
of ours have stated that if KF goes sale, they'll get it just because of the
items. TF2 got a lot of sales among updates and at those times, we have
always seen several new players on the servers that have gotten the game to
try out just because it was on sale and friends& newssites have been
talking about it (thus the jungle drum). However, even at those times, the
"Peak Today" stats on Steam, which are public, never reach more than 2-3
times more players than usually even though TF2 has sold millions among
OrangeBox. Some of the owners will never get back on the game because they
have lost interest completely. We'll see how KF manages to lure back players
in with the event.
You are correct that new updates bring out old players too to try out the
new stuff and servers are most likely packed but only for some time. I'm
also sure that some TF2 owners will get the game just due to items but also
many others are thinking about it who expect it to go on sale and if it
does, they get it too.
-ics
14.12.2010 4:59, John Gibson kirjoitti:
FYI it won't take even 5% of the people that own KF hopping online to try
out the Twisted Christmas event to hit the high end of those estimates. We
also figure more than a couple of the TF2 fans might be picking up the game
due to the free KF items they'll get in TF2. So even without a sale I think
we'll see a very large amount of players.
John
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On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:14 PM, AJ Collins<gamerzwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm going to say yes. I don't think it would be possible to get that
amount
of concurrent players unless there was a price drop or a free weekend.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Violent Crimes<
violentsmob...@convictgaming.com> wrote:
Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event
-----Original Message-----
From: John Gibson<j...@tripwireinteractive.com>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: [hlds] Killing Floor Twisted Christmas and TF2 Tie-In Heads Up
To all server admins,
For those of you that don't know Tripwire Interactive are running a
special
event starting tomorrow (December 14th) called the Killing Floor Twisted
Christmas - http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/. This event
replaces
all of the monsters in game with Christmas themed monsters, adds an all
new
level - Santa's Evil Lair, has a bunch of new achievements including
some
specifically for the Twisted Christmas event, and features a tie-in with
TF2
where TF2/KF owners/purchases get the Pyro as a playable character in KF
and
a special KF themed item in TF2.
With all of the buzz and interest surrounding this time limited event (
December 14th - January 4th ) we expect a massive influx of both
returning
Killing Floor players that wish to experience the special event, as well
as
new players wishing to experience the game for the first time. As such I
have a couple of requests for the server admin community:
1) If anyone is willing to put up some extra servers for the
duration
of this event that would be extremely helpful. There are currently about
1100 Killing Floor servers, which will support about 6600 concurrent
players
( 6 players is the max on standard KF servers). We expect the peak
concurrent players to be in the 10,000-20,000 range, which means it will
take another 1000-2000 servers to handle this demand. On the bright
side,
we
expect a lot of these players will stick around after the event, which
is
potential customers for you GSP's :-)
2) With the massive influx of new players, I would request that
anyone
adminning a group of KF servers to please set 35-50% of them to the
Normal
difficulty. This will help ensure that the new players will have a place
to
try the game where they won't get their face eaten off.
3) Please make sure the new Santa's Evil Lair map is in your map
rotation, as this is the map EVERYONE will be dieing to try.
Additionally, we will be trying to make the server files available
through
HLDS a couple of hours prior to the start of the event (both Windows and
Linux). Thanks to everyone in advance for their help and cooperation. I
always say, you admins are the cornerstone that any multiplayer game
community is built on!
Thanks,
John Gibson
President
Tripwire Interactive LLC
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