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[azzy]

Mani has a great point, our game is as dead as it can get but is that really what we want?
Even during my most active period the past two years I was inactive as fuck but I still enjoyed a war now and then, I'll miss it tbh and I'm sure many people feel the same way.

I had a brief conversation with Shifty and we came to realise this game can easily be saved if we want to.
I'm taking example of Urban Terror, a game as old as SOF2 is.. the reason it is still alive is advertisement, regular cups (with pricepools) and a dedicated team behind it.
We had those people but we lacked advertisement. Reviving this game is a matter of changing the name (demo behind it is not attractive to people) and making it our own project.

Q3-engine is open source and as long as we don't make profit from the game it should be alright to use the sourcecode.
All we should need to do is change the name, get RPM up and running again and get Butcher to host servers to start with and advertise our game.
Even if we -only- get 200 players to play our game, it is still a lot more players than we had the past 2-3 years. I'd make work of advertising and dig up my Sony Vegas from under the dust and start making a video showing our game at its finest.

I would need Luminaire, Drfunk and Insane aboard and most of all xillax, otherwise it's not even worth trying anything.

Keep this topic clean, I'm assuming you still visit Demobase because feel connected to SOF2 and its community and you care for it, if you got no valueable input do not reply.

Edited by azzy, 07 September 2013 - 10:55 AM.

[FRZ`]

sounds like a good idea, good luck with it guys!

[maniman]

My sof2 uncle with ponytail told me we must all move to sof full and now demo is dead

Edited by maniman, 07 September 2013 - 11:32 AM.

[bing bang blaow]

Mani has a great point, our game is as dead as it can get but is that really what we want?
Even during my most active period the past two years I was inactive as fuck but I still enjoyed a war now and then, I'll miss it tbh and I'm sure many people feel the same way.

I had a brief conversation with Shifty and we came to realise this game can easily be saved if we want to.
I'm taking example of Urban Terror, a game as old as SOF2 is.. the reason it is still alive is advertisement, regular cups (with pricepools) and a dedicated team behind it.
We had those people but we lacked advertisement. Reviving this game is a matter of changing the name (demo behind it is not attractive to people) and making it our own project.

Q3-engine is open source and as long as we don't make profit from the game it should be alright to use the sourcecode.
All we should need to do is change the name, get RPM up and running again and get Butcher to host servers to start with and advertise our game.
Even if we -only- get 200 players to play our game, it is still a lot more players than we had the past 2-3 years. I'd make work of advertising and dig up my Sony Vegas from under the dust and start making a video showing our game at its finest.

I would need Luminaire, Drfunk and Insane aboard and most of all xillax, otherwise it's not even worth trying anything.

Keep this topic clean, I'm assuming you still visit Demobase because feel connected to SOF2 and its community and you care for it, if you got no valueable input do not reply.

i am confused

its like you are suggesting we move to full but actually not



what is the plan?
we stop calling our game with 1 map a demo, somehow get max to give us RPM and have known server crasher be the guy offering servers to new players
and what the fuck has the q3 sourcecode have anythin to do with the whole thing
?????
+200 players
profit


wtf

maybe lets all go on a spiritual journey as well, hold hands and talk unicorns n shit

Edited by bing bang blaow, 07 September 2013 - 12:18 PM.

[CAJUN]

Rocket you always were a newbie at sof

[bing bang blaow]

totally relevant


so elves and unicorns. and i want explosions too. and i wanna take shit on a rainbow while listening to erasure - always

Edited by bing bang blaow, 07 September 2013 - 12:21 PM.

[azzy]

i am confused

its like you are suggesting we move to full but actually not



what is the plan?
we stop calling our game with 1 map a demo, somehow get max to give us RPM and have known server crasher be the guy offering servers to new players
and what the fuck has the q3 sourcecode have anythin to do with the whole thing
?????
+200 players
profit


wtf

maybe lets all go on a spiritual journey as well, hold hands and talk unicorns n shit

I didn't make a plan, only some suggestions.. we've been playing with full maps for years, why wouldn't we continue on that same path?
Nobody would join "SOF2 DEMO", but does "DEMO" still apply to our game after all the mods, fixes and patches we've created as a community?

We got anti-cheat, a serverside mod RPM (Max wanted to give this out to Shifty, is what Shifty told me), crash fixes, unlocked maps...

It's not like we are still sitting here with "vanilla sof2 demo", be a bit more openminded.

[-AGGA-]

good iniative azzy

[abu]

if rpm is back im back too !!

[FLAiR]

i don't know where this is coming from azzy. last time someone wanted to make sof2 demo more active there were lots of ideas but no1 did anything... what makes u think that these ideas will work this time? the names u mentioned... luminaire, drfunk, insane... luminaire and insane dont even play the game and arent even active on the forum.

also, rpm is history since max isnt giving us the source code --> oops didnt read azzy's prev post

Edited by FLAiR, 07 September 2013 - 12:36 PM.

[azzy]

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Edited by azzy, 07 September 2013 - 12:42 PM.

[azzy]

i don't know where this is coming from azzy. last time someone wanted to make sof2 demo more active there were lots of ideas but no1 did anything... what makes u think that these ideas will work this time? the names u mentioned... luminaire, drfunk, insane... luminaire and insane dont even play the game and arent even active on the forum.

also, rpm is history since max isnt giving us the source code --> oops didnt read azzy's prev post

We ran our own little community for years with zero advertising, most "new" players were family or friends of excisting players or ex gold players (even tho 99% of them don't even know about Demobase).

For me personally, I've tried to get into different FPS but it's just not my thing, I like fastpace, rushing.. basically every Q3-engine game out there has this but they're all going in the same direction as sof2, because the game is old, obviously.. but I have little interest in these super realistic or futuristic shooters personally.

As a shooter I've always enjoyed SOF2 most of all, it's just unique amongst fps.

[FLAiR]

We ran our own little community for years with zero advertising, most "new" players were family or friends of excisting players or ex gold players (even tho 99% of them don't even know about Demobase).

For me personally, I've tried to get into different FPS but it's just not my thing, I like fastpace, rushing.. basically every Q3-engine game out there has this but they're all going in the same direction as sof2, because the game is old, obviously.. but I have little interest in these super realistic or futuristic shooters personally.

As a shooter I've always enjoyed SOF2 most of all, it's just unique amongst fps.

that's not rly believable coming from a man who hasn't touched sof for about 5 months (?). anyways, its clear u miss sof2 now, but i think its too late tbh. a year ago, kevvo made a topic abuot sof2 demo future as well and we didnt get anything from that either. looking at ur plan, i hope u start leading from the front with that video (which im curious about)... good luck.

[maniman]

totally relevant


so elves and unicorns. and i want explosions too. and i wanna take shit on a rainbow while listening to erasure - always

We can actually mod that shit. Unicorn skins and banana explosions.

Not suprised nobody gets what azzy is saying.

He means make demo 2013. Re-releasing it with all perks, fp - rpm in one folder - advertise it, youtube trailer. Like bringing out a new game. Actually might even work. Problem is it takes work and a team to complete the goals you set

I think it would be a hit if you release it as a cops robbers h&s game, modded with funny skins or smthg. Every kid out there will instant download button abuse it.

[bing bang blaow]

i think you would have better success making sof2 into another dota copy.
seems like this is what people nowadays play

[azzy]

We can actually mod that shit. Unicorn skins and banana explosions.

Not suprised nobody gets what azzy is saying.

He means make demo 2013. Re-releasing it with all perks, fp - rpm in one folder - advertise it, youtube trailer. Like bringing out a new game. Actually might even work. Problem is it takes work and a team to complete the goals you set

I think it would be a hit if you release it as a cops robbers h&s game, modded with funny skins or smthg. Every kid out there will instant download button abuse it.

I was thinking along those lines yes.. but obviously I'm not going to waste my own time if even our own community doesn't want to play the game anymore. Flair one of the main reasons I stopped DEMO was the lack of competition, sure I lost wars with the clans I played with but I never felt "outskilled", sounds lame I guess.. but there was no competition to me personally since c4 etc also stopped playing actively.

I wouldn't be active in a "sof2 reborn" either, I'd be a casual player but I would play if we can get it active again.

[bing bang blaow]

you are the opposite of batman

[skyloline]

you are the opposite of batman

+1

[BladHark]

no chance - no one will be bothered (just like last time someone tried this) to do the things u suggested lol

[heldro]

You stopped playing because there was not enough competition left but now you want to convince 200 noobs to play a 12 year old dead demo game over any new active game just so you can noobbash them.

mind is blown, should have listened to doctorpunk 2,5 years ago!