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It's a good point. Considering LSN's need for players, maybe a radical pricing rethink is needed. Maybe something along the lines of making it free to play but with non-performance enhancing extras to be paid for. After all, there are no development costs to be met, how expensive can Bulgarian server costs be? A largely free LSN would instantly result in a load of new players. The alternative seems to be no LSN at all in 18 months time.

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Zwack

A largely free LSN gives almost no incentive for it to be developed. And once it is free nobody will ever pay for it again.

I agree, at least mainly. It seems clear though that there won't be any substantial development soon though. That being the case, Codo seem to have the option of coming back to find a reasonably sized community of enthusiasts who aren't used to paying for most content or a tiny community who are.

And regarding stats, it seems reasonable to assume that with league player numbers declining, player run competition numbers declining and forum activity declining that it's unlikely to be just because the LSN demographic is changing to an unsociable group of players who just play friendlies. And why wouldn't numbers decline? LSN has a low profile, there's no new content and there surely can't be too many people in the target audience who haven't already heard of it, tried it and either moved on or been put off by having to pay a subscription. If nothing is done, the player numbers will drop even more until all that's left is a tiny hardcore (of which I'll probably be one), and if nothing's done on development the only option left is to do something about the pricing.

Cheers,

Zwack