The blockland theory is my perspective at this game in general, its forums, and its future. First, lets look at the game's community. I won't begin on the forums just yet, because I'm going to talk about the ingame aspect.
The ingame community's majority is painfully simpleminded. They join only the servers with the most players (tezuni, cough cough) and nothing else. This blocks new servers from being created, and new ideas surviving more then twenty minutes. Basically, if you are at the top, your going to stay at the top. If your at the bottom, your going to be there for quite some time.
When the people who only play on the 'top' servers go on the forums, they start complaining about how there is no "good" or "creative" servers. They fail to realize that this is their own doing. They are the ones making the "bash the bottom" effect. This way, things never get better.
Yesterday, I did a test. I hosted a server called "Project Throwmod WIP" and about 3 people came on, minus my staff. All of them said "were is da thruwmod areenaz1?!?!!1?." They failed to read the "WIP" part of the title. After that, I multicliented for some laughs with my friends. I changed the server name to "SlaveLand" after about 6 people where connected to the server. I used one multiclient to leave the game and monitor the server list. SlaveLand had made it to the top of the server list (minus tezuni). Also, there where almost NO other people on the other servers (minus tezuni).
SlaveLand got 24 people at its peak, and the server was literally Box and I building a sandworm for our upcoming throwmod plus a playful land of staticshapes for nubs to build on. This just proves my point that once your at the top, your not going down and once your at the bottom your not going up.
Lets look at a move terrifying aspect of blockland-- its forums. The forum community isn't one of the worst--- but isn't nearly one of the best. Once someone said "If Steam read our forums wouldn't that give us a even lesser chance of being greenlit?". This, sadly, is very, very true. General Discussion is ok, Off Topic should be forbidden, Creativity is nice, Help is dead, ect. Even though, it is a very entertaining forum. I just wish more people where on help.
Now we are going on to a serious topic-- the games future. Honestly, it is nearly impossible to speculate what is going in Valve's head about Blockland. I cannot tell if it will get greenlit or not. The best way to boost Blockland's chances are to make some update that will totally boost the game up in attention because it is so revolutionary. Another way would be to make a community update. If the level of creativity is high maybe it can get valve's attention. But honestly, if the game doesn't get more attention it might have a limited life span. Although, Blockland has been surviving. In v0002 people said it was dying and it would never make it to 10,000 players (not shure number, estimate). Honestly-- suprise me. I'm 12k and beleive me, I've been impressed before.
My purpouse is not to bash this game, just giving my point of view.
