Friday, March 7, 2008

Running Battlefield servers is no easy business

I'm constantly reminded while getting a ranked battlefield 2 server is fairly easy, attracting players to join it and get a game going isn't. I've been in this server business now for a few years and running lots of different games with my World Gaming Order and with friends and now again my side project vipergaming.net and while sometimes you can find a winning formula for attracting players, it isn't always easy to keep them.

I'm still having fun here with my Viper Room servers. I'm hoping still to get some of the old crew together this summer and have relive some old times in the JA server, only right now my time is spent with all my friends trying to get several different BF2 servers back on track.

It can drive a person crazy somedays, but lucky for me I'm just here to have fun so if a day of server camping doesn't produce a full server then I'll just keep at it until I do. Between me and the WGO and my friends over at OCSC we can offer just about anything any bf2 player would want, but it's just getting the servers going that's not as easy as it should be. To my friends who are helping me get servers going and camping on them day and night, I salute you!