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Two key points to sum up this whole thread and Fearless right now.
1. What's happened
Fearless is old. Not just a couple of years "this is kinda boring old". 2008 old. It's not "rockin' around the clock" anymore, it has simply ran out of time. FL, much like a business, has a churn rate. A churn rate is the rate of how many players find FL and how long do they stay before they leave/become inactive. Over time, because of so many substantial changes, roadblocks and general internal blips (which is totally normal), it's caused the churn rate to increase heavily making it near impossible to catch up. FL is at a stage where it's too far gone to get old players to come back and invest time in the server + not interesting enough to attract brand new players and keep them on the server.
2. What needs to happen
To tell you the truth, I don't actually know. The current team somehow have to find the magic formula that will balance out retention (bringing back the older players) and prospecting (bringing in the new players) which is seriously tough. Old players have moved onto new gamemodes/games (making it harder for them to come back and invest time here again) + the new players we desperately need are probably playing other games beyond Gmod.
Everyone is so quick to bring down new attempts to revive the server which is a shame. I think if those people were plonked in the driving seat of the revival and could see how much of a mammoth task it is, they'd be a little more understanding.
I'm not sure how the next phase will go but it's not over yet, clearly!
1. What's happened
Fearless is old. Not just a couple of years "this is kinda boring old". 2008 old. It's not "rockin' around the clock" anymore, it has simply ran out of time. FL, much like a business, has a churn rate. A churn rate is the rate of how many players find FL and how long do they stay before they leave/become inactive. Over time, because of so many substantial changes, roadblocks and general internal blips (which is totally normal), it's caused the churn rate to increase heavily making it near impossible to catch up. FL is at a stage where it's too far gone to get old players to come back and invest time in the server + not interesting enough to attract brand new players and keep them on the server.
2. What needs to happen
To tell you the truth, I don't actually know. The current team somehow have to find the magic formula that will balance out retention (bringing back the older players) and prospecting (bringing in the new players) which is seriously tough. Old players have moved onto new gamemodes/games (making it harder for them to come back and invest time here again) + the new players we desperately need are probably playing other games beyond Gmod.
Everyone is so quick to bring down new attempts to revive the server which is a shame. I think if those people were plonked in the driving seat of the revival and could see how much of a mammoth task it is, they'd be a little more understanding.
I'm not sure how the next phase will go but it's not over yet, clearly!