Expanding into other games

[cmohr]

I love DayZ, and I love RP, but I feel like it's only a matter of time before this community dies out simply because DayZ is a 7 year old game and although the game is still thriving, I doubt it will last with the hype of mods dying out and support for the game being significantly slowed due to the Bratislava studio closing. I know expanding into other games is expensive and usually doesn't work, but I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential in other games. Games like Conan, Ark, Rust, all with active development teams and steady player bases. I know this probably won't happen but I think it's an interesting point of discussion, as it seems like the online RP community as a whole is slowly dying or migrating to other more popular games like GTA and RDR2. I just think it would be sad to see this community die. 

Edited December 1, 2020 by cmohr

[Hollows]

Sorry man, but we've tried and tried and tried over the years. It goes strong for a few weeks, but before the second or third month the plug is pulled.

We actually had something going for a FiveM GTA V RP server but through some error I believe the project was scrapped. 

+1 for a RedM or FiveM server though. Would be cool to see.

[Will]

Would be cool to see but would never work 

Happens every time 

[Mike]

57 minutes ago, cmohr said:

I love DayZ, and I love RP, but I feel like it's only a matter of time before this community dies out simply because DayZ is a 7 year old game and although the game is still thriving, I doubt it will last with the hype of mods dying out and support for the game being significantly slowed due to the Bratislava studio closing.

Trust me there is a much longer list of reasons why this community is "dying out" and if they were addressed then the age of Dayz wouldn't even matter.

[Burak]

I suggested a RDR2 server to Roland , but as Roland mentioned , RedM servers are charging for everything extra ( for example extra player slots , modifications customizations , its nearly impossible to monetize etc. etc.). RedM servers need a strong developer team too i guess. RedM payments and cuts + Developer payments + a strong server cost =  he has some strong and enough reasons not to have RedM servers.

I'm personally waiting that they add Onesync option to RedM servers to extend player slots onto 64 or 96, i will try my chance with Roland one more time that time. 
 

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[Roland]

Let's not doomsday DayZRP just yet. We had 40+ players on the server yesterday - myself, GMs and LMs were doing events, plenty of people gathered at Green Mountain and had fun fighting zombie hordes leading up to Namalsk move. Considering that we are just before a map change that is incredibly good. Remember May of this year when we announced lore wipe? The server was peaking at 10 players back then because everyone just waited for the wipe and yet still here we are.

Now, to the idea of expanding into other games - years of experience have taught me that DayZRP is for DayZ and no other games will work within our ecosystem and players, whom specifically came here to play DayZ. I intend to continue running and supporting DayZRP at least until it turns 10 years on 24th July 2022, regardless of the amount of players or activity here, just as a personal achievement and to be able to say that I ran the place for a decade  

Obviously I have thought about running other games over the years as the interest in DayZ dwindles and we have semi-successfully done so a few times (GTA5RP, SCUMRP). If DayZ really dies we will suggest a move to other games with new website/domain will be created specifically for them, but DayZRP will stay for DayZ. Also games like Conan, Ark, Rust, RDR2, GTA5 have been out for a long time and community "market" for those games is already filled with attractive communities and competition is fierce. One of the biggest reasons DayZRP has been successful is that we were one of the very first to create a community for the RP niche for this specific game. I have a game in my sights that has not been released yet that I believe will have large RP and player engagement potential and I have already purchased a domain and created website for it. When the time comes to move to this new community, you will know as I will post a huge banner on top of the DayZRP website announcing it  

To sum up, everything that has a beginning, has an end. DayZRP is far from the end however and will forever stay with DayZ, until its very last day. Other game projects will have their own website and "community" and will be advertised here, instead of converting DayZRP into something it isn't. Occasional short term "fun" games like Minecraft are hosted on DayZRP, but are not a part of its core service.

[Burak]

Personally i dont see other games or creating a new game server for the community as a doomsday of DayzRP , i see them like spices, salt & pepper, small breaks from same game. This community born with Dayz, Dayz will be always main theme and main thing here i guess.I see you add an alternative game server for community ( Minecraft ). But other games RDR2, GTAV , other roleplay able games will bring only some fun to the community either. ( I still agree with you , about its bullshit that these guys ask hidden cuts and hidden charges for their emulator or server.)

Edited December 1, 2020 by Burak

[Aron73]

I have to agree with @Roland. I have been here for a while now and have seen this server ups and downs due to specific events. On average, 14,000 players are playing DayZ, which tells me there is still an enormous interest in DayZ.
https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/dayz/stats?serverCount=3M&playerCount=3M
 I have played DayZ for 6000h, and I still have a lot of fun and still do get challenged by the game.

[Noble]

As someone who has seen this happen already, the server is not dying, and neither is DayZ, the game is at its highest right now, and although the player count on the server is not the biggest, it is in fact due to the season of the year, December and through January is always a bit less when it comes to this server, but in the end, it'll thrive back.

You haven't been here very long and it tells, you'll need to witness more first hand to even make these assumptions, games like GTA and RDR2 are not as popular as you might think, their RP communities are about the same as here, WWRP to name one isn't ever full and hasn't been for a long while, and GTA RP only has afew good servers but once again, not full communities.
As for what you mentioned around Ark, Rust etc. Those are hardly steady games, the Rust community in all servers consist of screaming kids, griefers, hackers and general snot nosed children, that is just a fact, Ark is dying out as it is, with no real RP community anymore so to speak, so I would barely call them steady developed games.

While it is sad to see the Bratislava studio being closed, it does not seem to put much of a hold on DayZ at all, they continue to pump out patches, content etc. Although not the best, it keeps the flow going.

All in all I do not see a need to actually push to other games or servers, altough it would be cool, DayZRP would lose its identity if that were to happen, that is just my two
cents.

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Edited December 1, 2020 by Noble
Needed to add more.

[AndreyQ]

13 minutes ago, Noble said:

You haven't been here very long and it tells, you'll need to witness more first hand to even make these assumptions, games like GTA and RDR2 are not as popular as you might think, their RP communities are about the same as here, WWRP to name one isn't ever full and hasn't been for a long while, and GTA RP only has afew good servers but once again, not full communities.

Yes and the earth is flat.

I am not sure from where you are getting your information but I can assure you in the case of both FiveM and RedM that they have queues on their servers usually bigger than our server pop.

Regardless, I know it might be a wild concept but DayZRP is for DayZ only. I see no issue with running a few extra games for fun from time to time but if you are looking for an actual community around a whole different game then what Rolle said is indeed the correct approach, that is new domain and everything.

1 hour ago, Roland said:

I have a game in my sights that has not been released yet that I believe will have large RP and player engagement potential and I have already purchased a domain and created website for it. When the time comes to move to this new community, you will know as I will post a huge banner on top of the DayZRP website announcing it

I am glad to see that you have taken my suggestion of building a community around the next big roleplaying game Shower With Your Dad 2. I am looking forward to seeing this released and experience the potential this has to offer.

[Stagsview]

Cyberpunk multiplayer when the servers go online next year.

[Burak]

4 minutes ago, Stagsview said:

Cyberpunk multiplayer when the servers go online next year.

probably they will delay multiplayer for 3 years  by giving 8 different release date. So i dont wanna think even Multiplayer of that game.

[Aron73]

6 minutes ago, Stagsview said:

Cyberpunk multiplayer when the servers go online next year.

Looks intresting. But what kind of game is it? from what I could see, it seem to me everyone are shooting everyone.

[Tewudin]

56 minutes ago, Aron73 said:

Looks intresting. But what kind of game is it? from what I could see, it seem to me everyone are shooting everyone.

It's an RPG first and foremost but yeah, I doubt the multiplayer will be like GTA or RDR in which they created FiveM/RedM to facilitate RP servers. Who knows though, maybe some fans will surprise us in that regards? Time will tell.

[Banshee]

As much as I love the community and video-games, the server is called "DayZRP". We've tried hosting different games as side projects multiple times, but due to the fact that people sign up for this community to roleplay on DayZ, they usually die off fairly quickly.

[boring]

i'd be all for a robloxRP server

dayzrp isn't really necessarily dying though this happens on and off the pop will go up then back down again.

[Blakeh08]

8 minutes ago, Banksyy said:

i'd be all for a robloxRP server

Please no I don't want to relive those ATF nightmares.

Jokes aside Dayz is fine as it is now, the pop does pop off and die down all the time. Look when covid started and the lorewipe happened 100/100 for weeks and died down not too long ago really cause IRL take priority or people are waiting for the new map or are just playing other games I am all for change but I have a feeling it won't last long  GTA RP is just pure cancer and not really fun, not sure about RDR2 as I have not seen videos about the RP servers or anything. I hate to admit it but the map change is going to make the server pop off again and I would not say the online RP community is dying at all, it is active as ever, it is true some have died off slowly for weeks or months but you got a fair few that are active and are good that are not dayz related.

[Brayces]

StalkerRP when?

TBH we all come here for the post apoc zombie survival RP and nothing else. We don't come here to play truck driver RP in GTA, or cowboy yeehaw in Red Dead. We come here because we wanna RP in the nitty gritty post apocalypse world overrun by zombies. There will be games dedicated to that, and one day DayZ will see it's end as it's not really fitted for RP in the same way other games are. Though, I suspect that won't be for a fair bit. BUT There are other games coming out that ARE focusing toward RP and will allow for more customization and ability. We just have to see if those games fit the same space here with the community we have. As Early Access is typically not a good thing ... .

But like others have been saying, DayZRP goes in ebbs and flows. It rises in pop and falls too, because people take breaks. Life gets in the way. You get burnt out or need a chance of pace but people do come back. I believe people will play for the new map, as it's exciting and something else to explore.

[Aron73]

Some streamers call this change sickness.
I don't know how many times I tried to stream something else, but DayZ and always ended up with 2-3 viewers, and I see the same with other streamers to like M1ndr streaming DayZ and have over 1000 viewers, and then he streams something similar like PuBG and get 50-100 viewers.
We all came here for one reason to play what we know and love, and that's DayZ. I'm sorry, Roland, but if you want to start a new game server, you might get 10% of the people here now following you; then it's just the waiting game until you get new people who are interested in this new game.

Edit:

I would gladly take a look at a diffrent game, but all you have to do is look at the votes to see how many that would wana play a new game.

Edited December 1, 2020 by Aron73

[Unknown Entity]

4 hours ago, Stagsview said:

Cyberpunk multiplayer when the servers go online next year.

Let us hope the game is good and can be hosted for RP. Can't wait to see the dank ERP that game could provide.

[Itsmez]

7 hours ago, Roland said:

Obviously I have thought about running other games over the years as the interest in DayZ dwindles and we have semi-successfully done so a few times (GTA5RP, SCUMRP). If DayZ really dies we will suggest a move to other games with new website/domain will be created specifically for them, but DayZRP will stay for DayZ.

Just out of curiosity if this will happen, the new websites and servers what would happen to the website ranks that people have wasted their money on? Do people keep their premium ranks and do they transfer into the new website?

I already feel bad for the diamond and black members 

[Nyx]

7 hours ago, Noble said:

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You haven't been here very long and it tells, you'll need to witness more first hand to even make these assumptions, games like GTA and RDR2 are not as popular as you might think, their RP communities are about the same as here, WWRP to name one isn't ever full and hasn't been for a long while, and GTA RP only has afew good servers but once again, not full communities.
 

 

You do know that there are tons of full gtarp communities that max out their 100+ slot servers daily right? And have queues. 
 

Ontop of that WWRP has 4 32 slot servers that max out frequently and have queues to the point where a 5th server is sometimes thrown up. One server alone receives more population on the server and in queue than this server currently  

so no idea what you are on about.

Not to mention that there are other dayz roleplay communities (also switching to the new map upon release) that are getting higher population daily than this server currently.

[Noble]

9 minutes ago, Phoenyxx said:

 

You do know that there are tons of full gtarp communities that max out their 100+ slot servers daily right? And have queues. 
 

Ontop of that WWRP has 4 32 slot servers that max out frequently and have queues to the point where a 5th server is sometimes thrown up. One server alone receives more population on the server and in queue than this server currently  

so no idea what you are on about.

Not to mention that there are other dayz roleplay communities (also switching to the new map upon release) that are getting higher population daily than this server currently.

Well I'm speaking on the facts I've seen and experienced myself, FYI.
I haven't seen a proper good GTA server with a proper good community full, sure there are servers out there with full populations and as you say, queues, but the rp there comes down to sitting in a pub, talking about the police, or what not, not really RP if you ask me so I'd rather not count it in, as for the WWRP, I have seen one of their 4 servers full in the last couple of weeks, barely rustles my feathers, so yeah. Again, this is all based on what I've experienced myself.

[dom]

17 minutes ago, Noble said:

Well I'm speaking on the facts I've seen and experienced myself, FYI.
I haven't seen a proper good GTA server with a proper good community full, sure there are servers out there with full populations and as you say, queues, but the rp there comes down to sitting in a pub, talking about the police, or what not, not really RP if you ask me so I'd rather not count it in, as for the WWRP, I have seen one of their 4 servers full in the last couple of weeks, barely rustles my feathers, so yeah. Again, this is all based on what I've experienced myself.

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