An official Trailer

[Defrag]

If we did take donations, it'd most likely just go to the hosting costs. I don't really care for making money out of something that is a labour of love.

[o_dru(gd)ealer]

Selling to valve would bring the mod out of the hands of the community. From what I hear, this mod is about the community. Chance of em selling are slim.

Then again, I know a little game called The Price Is Right.

[o_mikequist]

if valve wants it, give em rights to it. idc what they do to not make the game better. it guarantees the existance of it.

[o_sobe green]

I doubt the situation would even come up. Mostly because this mod is going to FIX what Valve messed up. And if you haven't noticed Valve is targeting the younger CS/DoD/BF1942 people. Capturing flags just isn't as fun to kids these days.

Note: I'm not saying those games aren't fun, I play CS on a day to day basis. I'm just saying times have changed. Hopefully we can get people capturing flags again.

[o_gunslinger]

NS gets away with donations because they are voluntary and non-profit (supposedly, how easy that is to qualify is, erm, unqualifiable!). If they was to start charging people to play the mod, valve (or whoever it is now) would sue them quicker than they can say a crap analogy.

[o_revz]

Players of the MMOFPS Planetside got fed up with the way SOE was failing to advertise the game and so they started their own guerilla advertising campaign. They produced a really cool video showing what the game was about and collected a bunch of important links on one website that would let someone download the game client and get their free months trial very easily. They then put together a standard forum post (so as not to spam or annoy people) and spread the word around.

It seems to have worked as well because subscription numbers are up apparently. To consolidate these gains they then had community members volunteer to spend time on servers "training" the vast horde of newbies coming into the game.