Killing Floor might just be part of the Treasure event you know... ;) On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:48 AM, ics <[email protected]> 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 >> >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > -- �?[GoR]|O|Darth_�i�ja?� http://www.DarthNinja.com http://www.GoRClan.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
