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Dommy wrote: ↑29 Jan 2018, 07:25 Doesn't change fact, over half of the titles are dead. Players tend to play old, the same titles over and over, while newest titles stay on channels only.

Hylis wrote: ↑27 Jan 2018, 16:03 Good post. Giving rough direction is difficult since speculation start from where you leave it. Maybe I can explain my vision of passed things to help understand our ambitions:

Before, we led the way in creation & competition in racing. Then we went for multiple challenges at the same time : create a platform with Maniaplanet, discover a new genre with Shootmania, work on a Trackmania², expand the team, install in new offices, work for consoles and all of this in a new company at Ubisoft (great by the way) It was quite a heavy lifting to do that only made it difficult to have everything running at players expectations.

Turbo succeeded a lot on many areas like: sales, good user scores at 4/5 and visibility in many places like USA or in the world, with 5 millions players. It was not a game for the PC community and scores on Steam at 3/5 are accordingly. Would we had not released it on PC, it would also been an issue since some core players could not even have played it and this is why I insisted to release it on PC.

Maniaplanet 4 was a deep work for many things, including invisible ones, like the online architecture complete update, blocks optimization, script API, engine parallelism, Direct X 11, 64 bits, possibility to switch from games to games in Steam, reduce the loading times, makers etc. By doing so, we had to let things behind as well, and it's more visible for people that were used to it. We will continue to fix some more or less visible bugs: a release is scheduled in less than two weeks, and others will be after.

Now, we need to innovate a lot, to give them the feel to be in the best place, the most advanced solution for gaming in one of it's significant area. So, our strategy is:
Short term: to polish the free experience in MP, using the channels, and makes them good for advanced players by adding key features. The goal is to both learn on these topics and provide a good environment for players to help us connect with players who want until next long term release.
Long term: come back with something big, also for core mania players, since creation & competition are key to our brands to make them shine more than others.

I hope it helps you understand our past choices until now,

Florent

mine3 wrote: ↑29 Jan 2018, 22:15 ...
- What Nadeo really needs are servers:

Servers that are populated from morning to night. Everyday, constantly.

You need good server host for each main modes.

Nadeo needs to let demo players to all servers.
Make demo players able to play in any server, any time, to keep the servers "up and running" with population.

Its very important. Because people only joins populated servers and this creates constant contiunity of people in the servers.
This makes the server alive and it keeps them alive from morning to night. Makes all the players free to join anytime.

Its your only true solution: Freedom for players. Freedom to choose what ever, when ever, how ever.

Channel is 1 mode for 1 hour, it just doesnt work. It kills it.

Nobody plays in schedules, many plays their favourite modes for example 3pm, 7pm, 8pm and finishes at 1am.

When one server is full for 1 hour, one server is full for 1 hour.
When all the servers are full for 24 hours, all the servers are full for 24 hours

Channel is killing the game and demo limitation is killing the servers.
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mvv0105 wrote: ↑30 Jan 2018, 17:52 Why not to add most popular community stuff (Models, GameModes, Tracks) into base TrackMania package?