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 < [email protected]> wrote: > Are you going to drop the price of killing floor for the event > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Gibson <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:01 PM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
