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Just go free-to-play already.
Biqus:
this game isnt build to handle large amounts of players
DurkaDude:
Going F2P won't help with player retention, plenty of new players are still joining the problem is they uninstall the game after a few days and never play it again. There hasn't been a major new add-on developer or server host that's joined the game since the launch on Steam in 2013.
weaver123:
This game had an amazing heyday for what it is, hail Blockland. The future of brick-based building games still holds the immense potential, but I will always respect Blockland.
MonkeyFunkyMonkey:
--- Quote from: weaver123 on August 26, 2019, 02:33:45 AM ---This game had an amazing heyday for what it is, hail Blockland. The future of brick-based building games still holds the immense potential, but I will always respect Blockland.
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Blockland isn't losing players because it's out of style its losing players because the people who made original and creative left in the "heyday". Remember when Munk made throwmod for the first time 2011 so why literally 8 years later has throwmod not changed since he made it but it is being hosted. Remember when Zapk popularized rising lava in 2014 and now 5 years later people still host what he created and stopped updating years ago. What about falling platforms literally Minecraft and Roblox strongest parts of there games are their community and creativity. The people that scripted gamemodes themselves and kept that addon private while being the top server are gone. Nowadays everyone hosts something someone already did this bores long-time players so they leave too. I'm excited about national socialist zombies because since 2011 no one has fleshed it out into a gamemode before now and that is such a simple but fun gamemode that bl needs right now. Great builders can now make awesome designed layouts and builds and have a gamemode that everyone knows that is fresh and that has replayability.
Sheepocalypse:
I for one stopped making addons because in my opinion, I'm wasting my time since the playerbase is dead. If it went F2P, I'd start again. Same can be said for many addon makers. Going F2P will 100% increase the playerbase because theres lots of people (I used to be one) who doesn't have a credit card and relies on forgetin christmas for Steam cards or something, leaving me to only play free games or the paid ones every once in a while.
People stopped hosting great servers because nobody was on to play said server. The most fun I've had while gaming was my Build & Kill server which averaged 20 players. I stopped hosting it because Blockland loving died. If BL were to be revived right at this second, it would still beat the test of time.
In game microtransactions? Sure. Who cares. You can get a cool helmet or chest decal or little charm like we already have in the game. Don't want to spend money? Don't. It doesn't affect you.