@Devs, free weekend?

Neat stuff! Hope you work out the servers issue beforehand :)

 

And a few hundred won't be a problem? I don't think I've seen it higher than 200, although I've heard it's been higher than 400 before.

 

Nah, there have been some hundreds people playing before too. More servers will just be full.

 

Then this would be a good thing to set up, but do you have any idea on what long-term player retention is like?

 

@Geti somehow discussion in this thread streamed over to another thread but I recommend you give it a shot.

https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/rage-quitting.20144/page-4#post-306749

Long term player retention is important, so here's a TL:DR

1. Newb-only servers must exist
2. They block anyone with a certain amount of playtime from joining, maybe 50+ hours?
3. If someone with less than the requisite playtime presses auto-join at the pre-server menu, they're always connected to the newbie servers primarily, until they have amassed more than the needed hours and can no longer join them.
4. Newbies can still manually choose non-newbie servers to join at any point, but us vets cannot join a newbie server.

What does this accomplish, you ask?

It limits their exposure to the pre-existing cancer of a community (I am a part of the problem the same as everyone else here is...) until after they've grown accustomed to the games, prevents them leaving because they got screamed at, etc etc etc. It also prevents rage quitting because they got their ass reamed and base rekked by a random pro vet joining.

 

dont free weekends work with the sale going on while the game is free also how dfuck would this work considering you have to make an account and pay for premium to play mp is this possible?

 

You're right punk, I think it really isn't within the realm of possibility for geti to code an exception of some sort for the free weekend. Thanks for the feedback.

That being said, a sale during the free weekend makes sense too obviously.

 

if he were to do that wouldnt it be simpler to make all accounts made able to acess mp and tht would put off some of the lazy people for the 3 days

 

Wow. Those stats make me cry.

 

I don't use steam because I have poor lag as it is and I think that kag runs smoother without it. I'm probably just crazy though ;)

 

i believe that was during a sale? imagine when its free for 3 days

 

if we cant get on that w
ould mean potential buyers would also not be able to play

 

Yeah that's another thing, it could backfire with people posting negative reviews like "Man all the servers were full and I couldn't even play! This game suuucks"

If you have enough servers for 4,000 people comfortably (I estimate at least twice the peak we've ever had because free = more players than even the steepest discount) then that should be good enough.

Everyone make sure to not get rage angry at anything during steam free weekend... because I know it'll be hard but there'll be a shitton of newbies.

 

I like the idea of a private password protected server during the days of the free weekend that all of us more experienced players could play on instead of the ones full of the new players.

I'd also like to put up a couple more tutorials on my Youtube channel so the noobs that do decide to stay can catch up a bit faster in terms of skill. KAG has a pretty steep learning curve. It's definitely not a game that you can get really good at within a week or even a Month.

 

Haha look at the first comment on this post
I also think that if vets had their own server we could prevent scaring off noobs by pwning them too much

 

I could host up to 5 servers (Every containing 32-48 players without lag, so 240 players in total ) in France, it would cost up 30.90€ for a single month, though I cannot pay it. If the developers plans the steam weekend and if anyone wishes to pay this, tell me.