Spike in MM8BDM players!

[SickSadWorld]

I'm very busy and I never planned on leaving for good; this merely accelerated my return

I will be back with more regularity at some point in Sept

Welcome Homies!

[Dusty]

tis a good day for us I imagine! Hope I didn't seem like an ass by killing slyfox... if that was the real one lol

[Combotron]

Ah don't worry SSW, it was just really nice to see one of my favorite dudes in this game again for a brief moment! Nice to hear you're even coming back, I was losing interest because of how often Classes and Roboenza was happening over any other mode, but this weekend's a pretty exciting event, haha.

I'm unwavering in the fact that the only LP related things I like are Freelance Astronauts, Chip Cheezum, and Retsupurae, but thanks for the promotion SlyFox, this traffic is neat!

Also I think he expects it Dusty. He's already put up one online gameplay video and he seems okay with it!

[LlamaHombre]

Somebody please ask this guy to show off some mods

The more material they know exist, the longer this will last.

[Celebi]

This is good to a point...however, this had to happen when my main computer is out of commission for quite some time. (The one that hosts)

[Dusty]

not to mention doomseeker and putting wads on the wadseeker so people can just join up

[Tengu]

I don't think that will happen.


This guy mainly only posts Minecraft videos, and he didn't even know about the other WAD files.

[Awbawlisk]

Damn, I get violently woken up by my dog, I was tired beyond belief, I wasn't allowed head back to sleep, I open ip my lappy in order to look at DS, I see this... O.O

At first I nearly thought I had to go to the doctor cause I thought my vision was really whacking out of me. Ah well, It's kinda nice to see these many servers...

Kinda as in, that one ZDN (Zandronum) topic..... >.>

[PowerGloveNinja]

Looks like its time to become active again. It's really a dream come true.

[Balrog]

This could be a bad thing.

Allow me to tell you the sad tale of Sonic Robo Blast 2. A fangame started by SSNTails and Sonic Team Jr. to build the 3D Sonic game Sega was too incompetent to make, it was slowly cobbled together from the Doom Legacy engine. Demo after demo was released, and a community formed around the development process. These people were united by their desire to see a classic Sonic game in 3D that they could be proud of. However, the message boards' membership was composed of, as one regular put it, "90% 8-year-olds, 8% lurkers, 1.9% oldbies, and 0.1% people actually able to contribute to this project." (Paraphrasing here; I can't find the original thread.) The community still managed to keep together, more or less, since the 8-year-olds, having the attention span of 8-year-olds, soon vanished after asking their questions and abandoning their stupidly overconfident expansion ideas.

Soon, the developers realized that the official maps had become outclassed by what the game's active modding community (many of the members of which were also developers) was putting out; a revamp was in order. After three years of feverish development and polishing, SRB2 2.0 was released, marking a new standard for mods. 2.0 also marked the point that the old guard had begun to outgrow the game - SSNTails was now a married man, and with a baby on the way he couldn't spare the time needed to steer the development of a Sonic game. Furthermore, the strong push to get 2.0 out had pushed the ragtag Sky Sanctuary Team to its limit, leaving them completely burnt out. Lastly, the markedly increased quality of 2.0's maps revealed an unsettling truth - only a handful of people actually had the talent to meet the community's standards, most of whom had expended all of their creative energy working on the release. Things began to wind down.

Then, the tipping point was reached. Spazzo, a developer and moderator, had become frustrated with the lack of progress on the next version of SRB2, and lashed out against Sky Sanctuary. The exact details escape my memory, but the issue first became apparent to the community when Spazzo began sending private messages to message board regulars, telling them a distorted picture and encouraging them to raise hell. The end result - Spazzo was made a persona non grata (albeit recently admitted to the MB) and people began to realize that the game and community had stagnated. It's by no means a ghost town, and things are improving - the noobs keep rolling in, the oldbies still make small talk, a few decent mods have been put out, and STJr. has made some encouraging progress towards 2.1 - but the sense that the game is in its twilight years remains.

I really hope this doesn't happen to MM8BDM.

EDIT: *looks up* Good to see you out and about, PGN. Hopefully I'll have a present for you soon.

[Dusty]

I somehow doubt that will happen. these people are also coming in late and not at the begining of the development cycle. theres LOTS of maps, lots of mods, lots of skins, modes, etc. etc. etc.

even more so than triple a-title FPS's So what happened to that sonic game I don't think will happen here. It's like if 1 million people discovered WoW suddenly. they'd probably stay because of ALL the content thats been released already

[Mr. X]

Except this is more the equivalent of 1 million people discovering WoW with no knowledge that said content exists, and leaving because they don't think there's much more to do.  These people have no idea these forums and the extra mods exist.  Hell, I've had a server open for over an hour and I think 2 people have used the chat, so I doubt they even know it exists.  Everything I've seen and heard from people in other servers is that these people are Lemmings:  They're playing because Slyfox played it, not because it's MM8BDM.  Once this guy makes a new video, they'll all rush to that game.

[Mendez]

Brb, sending this to Slyfox.

[Tengu]

BB, No offense but I really don't think he'll bother looking at it.


He's ignored the PM's that Lego and I have sent too.


EDIT: Jesus god you sound like Christopher Walkin

[PowerGloveNinja]

Except this is more the equivalent of 1 million people discovering WoW with no knowledge that said content exists, and leaving because they don't think there's much more to do.  These people have no idea these forums and the extra mods exist.  Hell, I've had a server open for over an hour and I think 2 people have used the chat, so I doubt they even know it exists.  Everything I've seen and heard from people in other servers is that these people are Lemmings:  They're playing because Slyfox played it, not because it's MM8BDM.  Once this guy makes a new video, they'll all rush to that game.

That's why I plan to enjoy this sudden popularity while it last's. The reason why I don't return to MM8BDM is due to no one playing, and if they are, its a Classes server. Nothing against classes but if its the only thing people will play then it gets boring.