My apologies, I re-read the email. It's been a long day and for some reason I was applying an additional zero to the numbers. :P
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:59 PM, John Gibson <j...@tripwireinteractive.com>wrote: > 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 <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 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
