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 Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:14 PM, AJ Collins <[email protected]> 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 < > [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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
