by Vivi Hill » Fri Dec 10, 2010 10:40 am
Yes, I guess I should clarify a bit: We understand that the servers are doing well. At this point, however, there isn't a desperate need for a third server that plays to the same audience that we have. Sure, we may be able to fill a third server with some effort and events, but right now it will only split our community a bit more since people will favorite a single server and go to that exclusively. That's why we don't have an official "Slaybox III" anymore. The "Something Box" is still being figured out.
I think we might be able to attract a different crowd with arena servers. I know of some people (like smokedout from my scrim team in eniGma) who would only play arena ever outside of scrims. It might be hard at first to attract these types of people since our majority generally plays our Slaybox rotation, but I think with a little effort it could be a nice niche server.
As for Europe, it's a completely different crowd so I think it would be very successful. And there are tons of people who play despite their ping who would love an upgrade.
As for a West Coast server, unfortunately while we have a Chicago server that doesn't make much sense. It would only really help Hawaiians, and though we love Hawaiians it doesn't seem like a large enough crowd to worry about. Some day, we might switch to a west coast/east coast system (maybe slaybox I and II can be east and west at some point, if we can keep the IPs).
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