Blockland is 75% off?

[Quote Story]

why spend $20 when you can spend $19.98!

You save 2 cents, imagine what you can do with those 2 cents!

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[Altiris]

You save 2 cents, imagine what you can do with those 2 cents!

Nothing. Tolls going into NY (or a bridge to go there, I cant remember) even ask for you to not use pennies, like wtf it's still currency. Lazy ass people.

[Conan]

I really find it hard to agree with that. There's no way this game would be worth $40, in my opinion. Especially since we're lacking players right now because a lot of us have left. Maybe when (and if) the community grows again, it might be worth more.

so the net worth is based on the community? wtf?

honestly, this game is worth it. its not a game you can permanently quit, and the demo is extensive enough to give you a taste of exactly what you are buying. if you don't like it, then don't spend it. but if you do, spending the $20 will probably be one of the best game investments in your life.

i wouldn't cheapen the game just so people buy it and then play it for a month and then disappear. $6 seems unreasonable; $12 at the very least. the replay value of this thing is enormous.

[mp7964]

I think this game is worth no more than $4.99 right now. Back in the older times when it was more active, it was worth more the money. Oh shut the forget up lol. Back when retail first came out we had like 5000 people, and it was still $20.

This game is kind of sitting steady in between the point of collapse and the point of growth. So far, I feel like we're going neither direction until something new comes around. It doesn't matter if you 'feel like' we're not going to grow or collapse, 35,000 players means BL is going to be around for a while.

However, with all of this stuff going on that's piling on more work for Badspot, Like what? Some butthurt skid is DDoSing the site? That's not causing much of a problem, now is it? Don't even mention Compoopermix's 'hack'. Every game has it's cheaters, Blockland isn't immune.

I fear our chances of an update anytime soon are very slim. What is there to update? What new features are there to add? There's vehicle physics, sure, but that's not a very big part of the game

tl;dr: Blockland is nowhere near collapse, you moron.

[Moonstar Akemi]

tl;dr: Blockland is nowhere near collapse, you moron.

I think you're a moron for even trying to use that argument. lmao


It doesn't matter how small our community was back then, the game was still more active than what it is now. The keyword here is "active", not "player quantity", smart one.

For your second line of stupidity, you made the exact same argument by saying there's 35K blockland players. Now you're just throwing random numbers to try and make yourself look factually correct. Also, according to RTB, there's only 36,989 individual keys - so you were close, I'll give you that.

For your third line, you're randomly throwing around stuff about somebody trying to DDoS the site when I'm referring to all the recent events about people using exploits and causing Badspot to have to keep patching over things, thus giving him extra work he doesn't need. The patching is always an improvement, though. Regardless, he's a one-man team, if not a couple others helping him as well. But as far as I know, he's the only one who actually works on the game. I dunno, how would you feel if you were an Indie developer and some group of friends decided to forget all your hard work up when you've already got a lot to do just to survive and pay your bills?

Now for your fourth line, I think this was the most stupid of them all. This game could always use new content and improvements to existing content. What do you mean "What is there to update" are you really that stupid? What kind of game developer says: "Oh, my game no longer needs development. It'll last for years without it anyway with my massive playerbase of 35K (according to your poor estimate)!"

tl;dr: You're an idiot.

[Moonstar Akemi]

Double post:

so the net worth is based on the community? wtf?

honestly, this game is worth it. its not a game you can permanently quit, and the demo is extensive enough to give you a taste of exactly what you are buying. if you don't like it, then don't spend it. but if you do, spending the $20 will probably be one of the best game investments in your life.

i wouldn't cheapen the game just so people buy it and then play it for a month and then disappear. $6 seems unreasonable; $12 at the very least. the replay value of this thing is enormous.

I agree that the game was worth it. But if I were a new player and I knew what the game was like back then and I saw what it was like now, I probably wouldn't spend twenty dollars for a game that's currently in a state of crCIA. However, I agree with the part you said about the investment of the game. The game can always change for good or worse - so it's not like we're losing anything by waiting for the game to improve. The game may be uninteresting now, but it could always pick back up and be the great game I used to know.

I remember Badspot telling Yola it was because he was growing up that he began to dislike the game, but I really don't feel like that's the case. Many of us are growing up and leaving for school and such while the younger generations begin to play, so that could very well be the case. Maybe in a few years when most of this current generation begins to grow older, the game will become more like I was used to. Even so, I guess I'll settle for the current game for whenever I find a rare server that appeals to me. :3

[Night Fox]

I think this game is worth no more than $4.99 right now. Back in the older times when it was more active, it was worth more the money.

that's stupid

edit: let me elaborate. how does that make any sense to you? a game's worth isn't based on its community. if it was ever worth $20, then it is always worth $20. and what makes you think it's not active?

[Moonstar Akemi]

that's stupid

Why's that? I believe this game's value goes by the community and its creativity. The majority of the players don't have the creativity to host servers so they usually look for ones on the server list. If there are none that are good that are on the server list, what is there to play? They can try hosting, but they might not be good at it. In my case, I try to host, but I don't have a hosting service, nor the desire to spend money to use one.

Without a wide variety of creative hosts, what is there to this game more than a freebuild?

[Night Fox]

so why should the creator get less money, if some kids can't make amazing gamemodes?

[Moonstar Akemi]

so why should the creator get less money, if some kids can't make amazing gamemodes?

Because there's not enough content in the game to make it worthwhile for just playing with a couple friends or by yourself. The lack of host creativity is downgrading the quality of the game, therefore the game is worth less. That is only my opinion, but I believe it should be taken into consideration.

Edit:

Think of this game as if it were an economy: The more effort the community puts into building it, the more that it will grow and prosper, bringing the value of the game up in the process.

[DiceyGrammar]

I really find it hard to agree with that. There's no way this game would be worth $40, in my opinion. Especially since we're lacking players right now because a lot of us have left. Maybe when (and if) the community grows again, it might be worth more.

Back in the older times when it was more active, it was worth more the money

What are you actually basing this off? What have you seen that we're all missing that says community isn't growing and the players that are here aren't active?

[Bisjac]

5 bucks is sweet :D

[Hyaku.]

I really find it hard to agree with that. There's no way this game would be worth $40, in my opinion. Especially since we're lacking players right now because a lot of us have left. Maybe when (and if) the community grows again, it might be worth more.

Well it may not be worth $40 but $5 is pretty cheap for a completely new life...
Its like "Clean Slate"

[Greek2me]

Moonstar, where are you getting this idea that the game is failing?

I've noticed lots of good servers online over the past week. Anyway, lots of people are probably starting school soon so it should be expected to cool down a little.

[Moonstar Akemi]

What are you actually basing this off? What have you seen that we're all missing that says community isn't growing and the players that are here aren't active?

Moonstar, where are you getting this idea that the game is failing?

I've noticed lots of good servers online over the past week. Anyway, lots of people are probably starting school soon so it should be expected to cool down a little.

I've been a player since around V7, I'm just basing my opinion off of my experience with how active (players actually trying to be creative and not making a load of stuffty RP servers that ban 1/4th of their players) the game was. You know, the original DM servers and the original, quality CityRPG servers, the Cops 'N Robbers, the challenges, the everything.

All I see now are just poorly built DM servers, Death-runs, Kart servers (not even those anymore, really), FamilyRP servers, Knife TDM servers, Mafia Madness (occasionally), and*very* rarely, a CityRP, but it's usually junk and poorly built, no creativity at all.

And yes, before anyone says it, I have tried really hard to contribute to the lack of original servers on the server list. I was building a death-match and Facechild was helping me out with it until we both went on a marathon of playing minecraft and I forgot all about it. By the time I got back to it a couple weeks later, I had lost motivation because I was pretty much building it myself at that point because Facechild had exams to do. Then I tried to build a little more and I finally just called it quits. I had gotten really far with the progress, but then my hard-drive failed recently and destroyed the save. I do have an earlier version on my older laptop that carries the important parts, but I think at this point, it'd be better for me to start a new one.

Anyway, I'm not saying my opinions here are fact. I'm just telling you how I see the game now compared to what it used to be, and I feel the game was better back then than it is now. I just wish someone could bring the game to life again. :C