Because it never got as many complaints as parkour maps.
Again. I don't know how long it's going to take for you to realize that this is the only way for your favorite maps/playing style to survive. And I'm running out of patience keeping this server up.
https://www.skial.com/threads/parkour-game-mode.118588/
The fact that sunstep's server failed should have taught you that you can't just rename it "hardcore deathrun".
I've woken up since my name was mentioned.
I am shutting down my server because of mostly personal reasons. It's not really worth running this server when you have 2 jobs next to a full-time study. I've enjoyed running my server, even if it wasn't really the most successful server. Even though the server wasn't getting many players, the feedback was mostly positive. The way the server was run, was accepted by players who play there. I've witnessed people trying to start up a brand new Deathrun server in modern TF2 days, and pretty much all of them died within a week or even sooner, or even worse never got any activity in the first place. My server has had quite some activity throughout the one year it has been up and running. My statistics prove this.
Screenshot of a Discord embed on my Discord server that gets updated frequently - Live server data.
I am confident that anyone starting a server right now with hard deathrun maps only or even just normal deathrun will never get the above stats within a one-year timeframe.
My server has gotten much further than any other new start up Deathrun server, which is good news for Skial I guess, since it didn't work out for me at the end of the day. I've put in hundreds of hours into this server and it didn't give much success. So I can confirm that no server will actually ever compete. Were those hours worth it? Well, I did enjoy most of it and I did learn a lot. But did those hours actually bring any success to my server? Most likely not.
But I am not here to speak about how good or bad my server is, I am here to expose the real problem. I can tell everyone right here and now that the issue does not lie with the quality of my server or how I ran it. The issue lies with the fact that the player base that likes hard deathrun maps seems to be way too small for it to be separated from normal Deathrun. This is one of the multiple reasons why I am shutting down my server. I'm seeing no potential for a successful future. I am not going to run a server or spend hundreds of hours into coding only to serve a handful of players. Furthermore, I am guessing Bottiger has the same mentality as well, especially since he has way more servers to manage, I could even guess he is using the parkour server as a reason to keep difficult maps out of the main Skial server. Bottiger and I are looking at it the same way. This might be difficult to accept, but the era of difficult deathrun maps seems to be over. If you want to play platforming maps on a server that is actually alive, you either have to play Panda (good luck with actually having fun there, if you're not actually banned) or blw (Good luck catching bhoppers 3 km in the sky, and that server seems to die as well recently). Since those servers still have a mixed map rotation.
Also, the meaning of hardcore is something incredibly challenging, so the naming of the server was right because my server was about challenging maps. The point of me naming my server like that was not to pump in extra players, but to make players aware of what they were getting into. The server was dedicated to challenging maps, so I didn't want to hear complaining about maps being too difficult. Something that was weird to me was the fact that players show interest in the server, but not many people actually play. Renaming a deathrun server to hardcore deathrun won't make it successful, in fact, it will have the opposite effect because it will keep many people away. I was aware of this when I renamed my server, and I accepted the risk.
Bottiger is not an enemy or the enemy. Bottiger is just a server owner, and he is seeing things realistically, just like how I see how this game mode won't work out. Players don't see that running a server costs money (which has gotten ridiculously expensive nowadays compared to many years ago, if you want decent hardware specs), and more importantly time.
The words above are maybe not the words you want to hear, but this is realistically speaking, unbiased and coming from a fellow server owner, and this is how I see how things are.
Edit: replaced screenshot to comply with the rules.
Edit 2: Just to be clear, I am completely neutral on this suggestion. I have not up or downvoted this thread. Whether parkour Deathrun becomes the future or not, I won't be there to see it. This post is just me stating that I am not seeing any potential in parkour Deathrun.
