TOPIC: ZARP's Developer Transparency Problem

+rep bring back xnator

i ain wantchin allyat

They've fully pivoted to P2W now and are just milking the remaining 5 players of all their money before they shut down the server. You don't even have to open cases anymore, you can just directly buy suits with booster packs. It's crazy to me that the few remaining players singlehandedly fund all 7 servers.

They have updates like every month now and they always follow the same format: copy pasted workshop items, suit, and printer. I honestly think making a trailer would be way more effort than actually coding the update. There's nothing new to really showcase, and the remaining 5 players will drain their bank accounts the minute the update comes out anyways.

Do you guys remember when update posts were a more consistent thing and genuinely created a lot of hype based on its contents? Here's a few old ones I found from a good couple years ago because it wasn't just a thing in recent years as shown in CEO's video, this was way common before:
zarpgaming.com/index.php/forum/10-announ...ween-update-pumpkins
zarpgaming.com/index.php/forum/10-announ...iggest-giveaway-ever
zarpgaming.com/index.php/forum/10-announ...58-zarp-arena-events

Now the only page that only shows off any form of recent content to show is ironically enough the booster pack storefront (barely any effort other than the nice graphic but oversized image on a 1920x1080 resolution) and the changelogs, which is nice to have those changelogs but where did the heart in making these detailed update/release posts go? Here's one I made for TTT Summer Update 2019, it should follow suit with something like this IMO.

Updates feel like it is just more and more slopware that is coded within a small timeframe by simply following the same formula it consistently uses; 1 printer, some items, 1 suit and a wheel. It needs freshening up and not heavily dependent on having people buy booster packs to get access to the new items with the harsh odds across the board, this is simply P2W and just plain dumb to any new, concurrent & returning players.

This goes without discrediting the hard work done such as features actually coded by the talented developers, such as the ACTUAL F4 menu redesign, ZARP Events system, and many more to list but this is besides the actual point. I write all of this with no personal attacks or disrespect.

If there is going to be a push for people to go spend money and buy a battlepass, give them more of a reason and hype to purchase through such posts and talk more about what the new suit and items does because I don't have a clue what anything even is anymore over the years and not having people to buy booster packs to find out, leaving people with no information.

When CEO states that sure, he was a community manager at the times he was criticizing but there is clearly a lack of collaborative effort - the concern seems to be more about just pushing the update out within some deadline and calling it a day after a day one patch of any remaining bugs being fixed.

Whilst some things I've mentioned may not correlate to the transparency discussion in hand, it is something I still find worth mentioning in conjunction - because I personally wouldn't be very excited about seeing yet another pass I have to buy and the same ol' case formula in an update post nevertheless.

But is this really worth the effort for the unfortunate and unrecoverable state SSRP now sees itself in? I'm at least glad there is at least a serious post addressing it with absolute valid points being raised.

dead server mate, simple as

exrobite wrote: 'nuff said

Clarky wrote:
howay pet, first pints on me

you can count me as -1 into the acitivty of SSRP
I hope this will make more than one person think, as I am THE big user of the server.

sinzz wrote: a big retard

Clarky wrote: this guy is lost, this video has nothing to do with him

sinzz wrote:
Welcome back! (that certainly didn't take long)

Mr. Richard wrote:
Don't worry, it will not last long

sinzz wrote: dont know about that one, your already back to printing and bitmining coco

sinzz wrote:
Kys

i feel bad for chute and emp

sinzz wrote:
hi bob, do you just sit on my steam profile waiting until i launch the game. i thought we were best pals thats why i have been non stop following you!

yisyas wrote:
gametracker don't tell you if I'm still online or not, but idk what you wanna prove ? so ok ?

sinzz wrote: do you have a program that pings you everytime i launch gmod?