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The Landfill => The Landfill => Topic started by: Marx on April 06, 2018, 04:18:29 am

Title: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Marx on April 06, 2018, 04:18:29 am

Dear players of IGC,

If you have been playing constantly on our server the past 1 or 2 months,you will have noticed that our playerbase has really been decreased.But,you may ask,why?
I believe the real issue with our server is a lack of advertising and regulation to help maintain a stable playebase.It is unacceptable a server like IGC to have such a low player count.This is a very professionalised server,with infinite things to do both in forums and in game,never gets boring or repetitive.You can earn money in more than 20 ways.The developers are doing an excellent job maintaining balance and prosperity on the server,constantly adding new things or regulating older features.The staff team are doing a very good job in my opinion,but still we could do a better job.But,what does that have to do with the low playerbase?

Well,I think that there are 2 major issues than result on a low playerbase.

• Lack of advertising on large MTA and gaming forums.

Take a look at other RPG servers who are honestly worse and have less features than IGC.You are going to see that they constantly have 100-300 players online atleast.I've been inactive the past week in game just to play and examine other RPG servers.Most of them are lacking,are unfriendly and nobody gives any information about features,you have to find out most of the things yourself.Nobody has such a nice panel like our F9 and the community guides on features.Most of the time we see features on IGC that extremely unique and yet,our server has maximum 25 players these days.It's very sad and I believe we should start thinking of advertising IGC and our forums on Major MTA and Gaming forums.

• Developers aren't enough

Our server currently has 3 developers.LilDolla,Emile and Adeeb who are doing an excellent job maintaining and constantly adding new features on the server.But those people are neither supermen nor have infinite time just to script features for our server.They have personal lives and problems they need to solve.After all IGC is just a game.I suggest trying to have some more developers in order to add new features faster. We often see suggestions get accepted but they never get added because the devs are working on sth else and forget about it.Other servers (won't list names for obvious reasons)have 5+ devs working and adding features as soon as they get accepted.I suggest trying to bring in 2-3 more devs as Trial to atleast help the current ones with any issues they might have.

In conclusion,my research showed that our server isn't lacking in features,creativity or uniqueness.It lacks on the things mentioned above and I honestly think that if the dedicated playerbase,staff team and dev team unite and make a big effort,I honestly believe that we could achieve big things for our server and have a bigger and more consistent playerbase.

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If you have read this,take 5 minutes to give me feedback and write your own opinion on the subject.It would help a lot.

Title: Re: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Electro on April 06, 2018, 06:13:11 am

MTA  and generally GTA SA is a very old game, it has been around for 13 years even if we advertise, MTA only has a very few players who still play it, the only chance IGC has to increase it's playerbase is if CIT, by a miracle, completely shuts down.

Title: Re: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Marx on April 06, 2018, 06:14:11 am

Quote from: Electro on April 06, 2018, 06:13:11 am

MTA  and generally GTA SA is a very old game, it has been around for 13 years even if we advertise MTA only has a very few players who still play it, the only chance IGC has to increase it's playerbase is if CIT, by a miracle, completely shuts down.

A large community still exists though.

Title: Re: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Electro on April 06, 2018, 06:14:59 am

Quote from: Marx on April 06, 2018, 06:14:11 am

A large community still exists though.

Then you can go ahead and try

Title: Re: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Savage on April 06, 2018, 07:42:42 am

Me and my friend advertised this server in several MTA groups on facebook, hopefully they come and take a look I'm pretty sure if they just joined it, they won't  leave it.

Title: Re: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Marx on April 06, 2018, 09:52:05 am

Quote from: Savage on April 06, 2018, 07:42:42 am

Me and my friend advertised this server on several MTA groups on facebook, hopefully they come and take a look I'm pretty sure if they just joined it, they won't  leave it.

Today I saw a couple of new players,could actually work out well.Good job for the advert.

Title: Re: IGC's issue and results of my research on other RPG servers
Post by: Electro on September 01, 2018, 08:17:02 am

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