Argonath paying for official status ?

[Claire]

Tell me whats difference betwwen "Official" server and "non-Official server", dont give me childish shit like "You get to be on "Official" button, I want real answer. What makes Official server and not?

[schfifty]

I voted Never...

because the server has recieved a lot of attacks lately as an official server...more than we used to. I also think that we shouldn't have to pay to be on the official server list...just like on a sports team, you try out, you don't pay your way on.

[X~Shaheen~X]

looks like everyone said never


i voted never because some people did a increase in players but the ones who looked outsdie the box saw that the increase of players which included over 50 rule breakers of any kind. a nice tight kept community is much stronger than a wide and loose open community. we had our vc mta real tight and it made alot of people become close and have alot more fun. im not going to hate on anybody new as we were all new onces but only 10 percent of the people who joined the server actually stayed, while 500 applied for arpd and were never seen again etc stuff like that. il welcome new players but since being official we had attacks and hackers and the final reason

people who go for player ammount = go to official list

people who respect a community and want to join and rp = trying out servers until they see one.

we are not player ammount server, we go by great players. whats better?

100 players = 30-40 regulars = 60 cops / non roleplaying / hackers / dmers - ofcourse we can teach them but some end up leaving
40-70 players = 60 regulars , good rp concentration and having time to teach 10 new people.


" Quality over quantity "  >> in other words >> 100 ferraris with no engines  ,seats or wheels? or one ferrari with everything modded to the max

[Trobby888]

At first, I thought, by being official, we would actually get some rewards from the SAMP developers. But since we have to pay more,  I changed my mind, and now I would pick "never". Why should we pay for being something that represents them?

[Hess]

Well, I don't mind if this server stays as official, but I think I'd rather if it wasn't.

[Gimli]

The forum, master server and official server lists are down. The official list from the sa:mp website has disappeared, along with the news article about 0.2.5. I have a bad feeling about this. 

EDIT: The normal server list is up now, official list still isn't along with the forums. What I am hearing from SA:MP IRC is that he got annoyed with people not supporting the official server payment idea and decided to close it all down.


-xcasio

[lionz]

Never would I pay to recieve a "rank". The SA:MP developers should be ashamed of themselves.


- lionz 

[MrsSvensson]

I think it is good that Argonath has become offical as xcasio said.

And I will help to pay! I promise.

- MrsSvensson  :banana:

[Chase]

There goes SA:MP...

[Emilio_Barzini]

I voted for YES , because when the server is official it attracts alot of new players ...

[Gimli]

Some updates from the SA:MP developers:

Due to some attacks on our services, we're now scaling back our operations. We will no longer be running an official forum or IRC channel. SA-MP client and server updates will be announced on this news page as they are made available.

Please remember that we are a small team and we are not professional game developers. Our only interest and objective is to make GTA:SA have a multiplayer option.

The master servers will remain online (hopefully for years to come).

The official server list is still down though.

EDIT: A SA:MP developer has said on IRC that the official server list has been removed permanently.

-xcasio

[Carbon]

/agree 100%

Agree with Anto and Justin 

[Aragorn]

Voting locked as the feature was removed...
We thank you for opinion and especially those guys who were willing to make a donations to support us... This shows that we made not only a game server, but we created a home for gamers, and that was our goal since we started...

In our history appeared a new chapter with award "official SA:MP server", which was not bought or bribed, and we are proud of it...

Therefore we really did not like the yesterday switch off of SA:MP master list with the forums, that just shows how SA:MP developers care about 20.000 players and shut down their network just cos they are pissed off without any notification... So I do not know if SA:MP will be stable for years...