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Offline Hyfrydle

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Lot's of servers
« on: April 25, 2012, 02:31:55 pm »
Wow just fired the game up and clicked on MP got greeted by 16 servers only expected the 1 or 2 we had through beta it was a pleasant surprise.

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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2012, 02:33:57 pm »
Oh yeah -- the "4 for the price of 3" deal is currently making up about 8% of our overall sales volume, so clearly a lot of folks are wanting to play multi.  I think that a majority of them might be playing with just groups of friends on unlisted servers, which is cool, but there's certainly some great multiplayer servers cropping up. :)
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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2012, 02:48:57 pm »
Great to hear the list has items :)  "Ghost town" syndrome is really bad when it happens.
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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2012, 02:58:36 pm »
*Cough* Tidalis *Cough*
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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2012, 03:07:31 pm »
*Cough* Tidalis *Cough*

I do enjoy how you can kinda make fun of Tidalis even though you still like the game.

Hell, sometimes booting up Serious Sam 3 brings up only like 3 servers. :/


But i've learnt that as long as i'm in a server with 1 other person, I don't care how many severs there are.


Hope things are going better than you expected though from the first launch days.

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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2012, 03:43:21 pm »
Oh yeah, we still love Tidalis -- it was such a good game, and it was such an incredible team effort.  Was just looking at it again the other day and was really feeling like "we made this!?" (in an awesome way) when playing some.  It had been a while.

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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2012, 04:02:32 pm »
Who knows? Tidalis might get some piggyback sales from AVWW.  I probably wouldn't have bought it myself if AI War weren't so awesome! And Tidalis is great in its own right.

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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2012, 04:41:38 pm »
Oh yeah, we still love Tidalis -- it was such a good game, and it was such an incredible team effort.  Was just looking at it again the other day and was really feeling like "we made this!?" (in an awesome way) when playing some.  It had been a while.

But if you can't laugh at your own follies...

I pull out Tidalis every time I get a puzzle itch.  :)  So I consider it money well spent even if your not currently developing for it, I still haven't finished it either, one of these days I will though. 

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Re: Lot's of servers
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2012, 04:45:38 pm »
It has a lot of content.  We had more we would have done with it if there had been player support financially for the game, but in the end those players who were interested in the game seemed more than sated with what was there, anyhow.  Makes sense for a puzzle game as compared to, say, a strategy game or adventure game.  Some genres just trend toward the large more easily.

And yeah, here's hoping that one will get some more notice on the back of AVWW, too!
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