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coolestguy
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From: coolestguy
|  Posted: 2011-06-08 15:55
Note: Fourm mod or who ever pls move if this the wrong place for this thread.
History. Way back in the day 3-4 years ago i was playing a game that was basically Darkspace but 2D instead of 3. It was online, same deal, free romaing and such. More kills you get better ships you get and so on.
This games pop was pretty big, stronger than Darkspace i belive, simply b/c it was advertised on big "Free game" sites. It grew and grew but one day got hacked. The owners didn't protect it well. 1000+ players wanted a sequel but the game is still being design.
Now i found darkspace thru some not so easy searches. This game isnt easy to find. I know that the game i played prior to DS community would easily fall in love with Darkspace. For thsoe who could run it anyways since it is much larger than this last game.
Anyways i don't know who to suggest this too so ill just "Darkspace" really should try to capture this hidden community of players. And or Advertise on the ever growing popular free game sites.
A few snazy sceen shots with the words "Free" will capture hundreds of not thousands of players for the DS community. But DS has to find the players, b/c the players wont find us.
(Again forgive me if this is the wrong place to post)
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From: sol
| Posted: 2011-06-08 16:10
yea....but keep in mind if you attract "thousands of players" you need to have a server that can suppport that until the money from the "Thousands of players" starts rolling in.
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coolestguy
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From: coolestguy
| Posted: 2011-06-08 16:32
That is so true.
And im new so i have no idea who or how the company or person's that run DS want the game pop to grow or not gorw. Its possible that its better this game remains small.
I personally like the game pop as it but i guess others have said they miss 100 vs 100 battles.
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superprawn
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| Posted: 2011-06-08 16:34
more players = more money
more money = better servers
better servers = more players
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Aaron Lienhardt
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| Posted: 2011-06-08 17:07
i have no idea how the game was years ago....
but sure more players means needing more money but isnt it worth it?
like superprawn said more players gives more money.
everyone knows the game cant stick like this...
i mean the most players i'v seen in the mv since i started was...40 or so?.
and most of them were either afk or were one-time players.
sure its expensive but you should try and if your lucky lots of more money might come, if it dosn't then go back to this way for a while then try again.
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MrSparkle
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From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2011-06-08 17:34
It's stuck like this, more or less, for 10 years now. It can't grow as f2p because I think the servers would melt, so enjoy it for what it is.
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Drafell
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From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2011-06-08 17:46
If each player was to spend just a week visiting gaming forums, mentioning DarkSpace and the fact that it is 'free', then we could probably double the existing player base.
You have:
www.mmorpg.com
www.massively.com
www.gamespot.com
www.pcgamer.com
www.ign.com
www.gamesradar.com
www.gamezone.com
www.computerandvideogames.com
www.g4tv.com
www.gametop.com
www.gamespy.com
www.onrpg.com
www.mmosite.com
www.mmogames.com
www.mmoginfo.com
... to name just a few.
I dare you all to spend just 10 minutes a day for the next week doing this, and see what kind of a response you get.
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| Posted: 2011-06-08 17:59
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| Posted: 2011-06-08 18:14
I also had to dig a little to find ds , i think that we should advertise more players but im afraid that if too many players come the game will have to upgrade and thus begin ,p2p . When this happens lots of players will leave because they wont wanna pay to play. And I also feel that many people that try the game will see that the game is not worth the cost.
Just what i think.......
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From: Red Lobster
| Posted: 2011-06-08 19:08
I found this game by looking at one of the sites above one night, bored, looking for something to play, and found DS. By accident i guesss you could say.
I like this small playerbase IMO, for some reason all the online games i have played with small communities seem to be the best. But in long term, advertisement is needed to keep the playerbase from drying up.
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Drafell
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| Posted: 2011-06-08 19:12
DarkSpace will not be returning to P2P, no matter how successful it may (or may not) become.
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Marius Falix
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From: Luyten
| Posted: 2011-06-08 22:08
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
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Lrd_Hunter
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| Posted: 2011-06-08 22:30
yea i remmber when it was p2p but think it was only like 10 dollars a mo really cheap compared to most other games that are like this or better
i miss the huge player base but like the small one to
problem with getting more players i think would be the qq factor lol
like now mostp layers qq over stuff and have no idea how bad it use to be
so i think it should just stay like this
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| Posted: 2011-06-09 01:54
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On 2011-06-08 18:14, (CC)CBRI(ICC) wrote:
I also had to dig a little to find ds , i think that we should advertise more players but im afraid that if too many players come the game will have to upgrade and thus begin ,p2p . When this happens lots of players will leave because they wont wanna pay to play. And I also feel that many people that try the game will see that the game is not worth the cost.
Just what i think.......
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Like Drafell sayed it wont happen. I personaly never saw that a game would go from pay to play to free to play and back to pay to play. If DS would go back to p2p i think it would be a suidside for DS or atleast close to that.
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Kenny_Naboo
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From: LobsterTown
| Posted: 2011-06-09 04:38
I left an email to the admins of whatmmorpg.com a few weeks back abt DS. Hopefully they'll do a review.
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