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Is our community gradually dying?
Xrain:
This question is asked at least once every few months.
The amount of people in the community tends to peak in the summer / winter break, and hit a low again right about this time, as well as somewhere in the October/November time frame.
I think it has a lot to do with that people are more busy at this time of year, considering nearly all of our members are still in school, and these time periods are usually the busiest as far as that is concerned.
Another thing that happens, is each wave of incoming people has somewhat of a life expectancy, we will get a rush of new people, they will play for a bit, some many will eventually get board and leave, leaving a few solid members behind. This also tends to lend to the perception of the community is dieing.
Unlike what the economists in the country keep telling us, infinite growth isn't a natural state in a closed system, you will have peaks, and valleys in the number of people on the forums. Yes one day the forums will die out as we all move on, but it all really depends on how good of friends you are with people in the community.
For the record, TehHank; interestingly enough what you have done in asking that question is to perform "speculating" rather similarly to the stock market speculation. Most of the time that the oil prices have skyrocketed, is because people perceived that oil was declining rapidly, despite it remaining pretty static with respect the the last 30 years. So because of this it artificially drove up gas prices.
Same thing can happen on a gaming community, if every says the community is dead/dying, even if it has had the same amount of population or growth the whole time, people can be convinced to leave the community and actually make it die, when normally it would not have done so.
I find it a bit interesting in what parallels can be drawn in something like our gaming community, and much larger events transpiring in the world.
๖Ϝцzsioᴎ:
Not really dying, just people don't have much time, I've seen the TTT server go up to 15-18 during weekends and on Fridays.
Point is, more people get on when there is some sort of break for people in that country.
So I don't really think it's dying that badly, as coolz said, the community goes up and down in popularity.
Viole:
Time juggled between Forensics/Debate and LoL = No TTT for me
Alkaline:
I guess it's just one of those times where we hit that moral milestone. But I enjoy the fact we can thoroughly communicate and cooperate, and get together ocassionally.
memo3300:
--- Quote from: Abyss on March 07, 2013, 09:26:02 PM ---I would LOVE to play more Zombie Survival if we could fix the damage issues. Gmod 13 fucked with damage on guns and its no longer fun at all because its extremely hard to get kills.
--- End quote ---
Coolz is working on that ;)
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