Originally Posted by Derivative

Or maybe all of your topics!

... Don't think you should go down that route.

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And the last thing I'll say about this is the same as KRSplat said :P

Very regrettable this is, if Jazz2 truly is slowly disminishing. I'll try do my part to keep it and the community alive with something I do better than talking

Originally Posted by John4300

Ill think its true... Jazz really are disappearing... 3 of my friends wont play jazz with me anymore, there is only jazz 3 demo, then epic games just killed funny & great idea of 2D game Jazz Jackrabbit, they wont even say they had game like that!!! i sendet E-Mail (for a test) to Epic Games and asked for full list of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 cheats and they ansvered they dont even have made game named jazz Jackrabbit!!! and epic games stopped even jazz online server...

Epic games only have the responsibility for the unreal games, what ive seen, but they let the old titles go to epic classics. although, then cant say that they never made jazz jackrabbit, cause they have.

Sorry community Im with Tazz we are going down hard.... Hopefully we can regain but inless some new jazz comes out were dead... Oh ya long live RAZZ lol And dont forget I love u all... lol I remeber TAZZ too

It's TAZ, not TAZZ. No double Z so you lose.

Whatever

Jazz 2's community has been decreasing in size by about 15% in size every six months since about 2001. This sounds bad at first, but six months is a long time on the Internet and 10% isn't that much. In fact, mathematically, that would mean it is about 32% the size that it used to be, which is probably right.

The game is harder to measure. The amount of short-fuse n00bs really is what dictates how many people are playing, not the players that really count to the community. It is much harder to gauge.

But, the fact remains, as long as the community is living, the game probably will be, too. Even if it isn't as active.

jazz 2 remains a classic
I know lots of people who played their dusty jazz cd again, and have those memories.. :P

Originally Posted by Trafton

Jazz 2's community has been decreasing in size by about 15% in size every six months since about 2001. This sounds bad at first, but six months is a long time on the Internet and 10% isn't that much. In fact, mathematically, that would mean it is about 32% the size that it used to be, which is probably right.

The game is harder to measure. The amount of short-fuse n00bs really is what dictates how many people are playing, not the players that really count to the community. It is much harder to gauge.

But, the fact remains, as long as the community is living, the game probably will be, too. Even if it isn't as active.

That would mean it would eventually stop shrinking. Yay

Originally Posted by Fl@$h

That would mean it would eventually stop shrinking. Yay

I didn't say the pattern was linear. It's been true thus far, but obviously when it gets down to about 10 people the game is functionally dead.

Originally Posted by Fl@$h

That would mean it would eventually stop shrinking. Yay

Yes. Logic agrees that the number can't go lower than 0.

Actually logic suggests that it would never reach zero; there would always be a community out there.

I didn't say the pattern was linear.

Indeed, its exponential decay.

Now then, as an exponential decay curve, the current population is given by [origional population] x [1 - decay]^[current time/6 months]

As such, the community is now at 27% of the origional [or it will be at about december.] The community will require 37 months to reduce to 10%; 5 years to reduce to 5% and 10 years to reduce to 1% [about which time the game will become functionally dead.] You should be the last Jazz fan in about 20 years.

Since the dawn of time there have been topics about JJ2 dying. Some things never change I guess.

Seriously, makes me wish this game was dead enough for people to actually stop posting them.

@R3ptile: 5 servers with 8 people in them each IS dead, back in the good old days there used to be pages of servers 24/7 (I know because I've spent many sleepless nights playing JJ2 for insane amounts of time.

yeah, it is, but I prefer it would be aliving more and this kind topics would be diappearing 8-)

JJ2 is really dying. Nowadays you don't always see servers, I used to play JJ2 a lot, but now less people are playing online. I once saw 9 servers listed (I was bored cuz I didn't have 1.23). J2O, JCF and JDC are keeping JJ2 alive. I'm waiting for JDC where you can see many people. (heh) and I couldn't play in tournaments cuz I didn't have 1.23, next summer it'll be more fun cuz I now have 1.23

Originally Posted by Disguise

Since the dawn of time there have been topics about JJ2 dying. Some things never change I guess.

Seriously, makes me wish this game was dead enough for people to actually stop posting them.

@R3ptile: 5 servers with 8 people in them each IS dead, back in the good old days there used to be pages of servers 24/7 (I know because I've spent many sleepless nights playing JJ2 for insane amounts of time.

can even remember the first few months that we had 3/4 pages long with jj2 servers. And when TSF came the same "problem" happend.

Originally Posted by Alexander BG

LR is the 3rd biggest clan

Really? What's the biggest? =/

Let's just be happy. JJ2 gets a Nolia Clap for surviving 6 years!

still it is strange that a over hyped like hl & Q3 still owns a growing commuity.

We have a lot of people in our community, it just that most of them are too lazy to play jj2 or can't because of router problems.

Originally Posted by Disguise

Since the dawn of time there have been topics about JJ2 dying. Some things never change I guess.

Seriously, makes me wish this game was dead enough for people to actually stop posting them.

@R3ptile: 5 servers with 8 people in them each IS dead, back in the good old days there used to be pages of servers 24/7 (I know because I've spent many sleepless nights playing JJ2 for insane amounts of time.

You are so lucky to have seen the that. These days chances are, you won't see a single server.

I think it's inevitable that JJ2 is dying, and complaining about it won't help. Come on, nothing last forever. Bear baiting was popular but can you see it on TV now? I bet that some day, in the future, JJ2 will be banned because it's anti-turtle or something because the ruler of the world happens to have turtles for pets. But on the bright side, let's say that the ruler of the world doesn't have pet turtles althouh JJ2 will sooner or later turn into a shadow of its former shadow of its former self. Old games like Doom are still played, and even Pong and, correct me if I'm wrong, JJ2 is better than any other game oldie game and is the best platform game EVER. Ppl won't forget about it and therefore JJ2 will never die. Erm, hopefully.

To Gr33n Pl4nt. VS is second biggest and CC is biggest.

What the hell is bear baiting?

It's when you tie a bear to a pole and release loads of hounds to kill it. The hounds will often get killed or mutilated because they're not strong enough to stand up to the bear so the bear is often disabled by cutting of his claws/breaking his jaw or something.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

These days chances are, you won't see a single server.

When I check gip, it is quite rare that there are no servers.

@Unknown Rabbit.

Well, lately there seems to be a lot of idle servers where the host is gone and ppl just mess around in it. At least that's what I see when I check gip. Maybe you live somewhere fun like in America and play in servers when I'm asleep or something...

Hey guys!
I want to know: Will it be an 1.25 Patch for Jazz2 TSF?????
Tell me PLIZZZZ!!

We'd all like to see one, but I doubt it.

I think jazz's is going down... You guys can't face the fact that its going down so you keep creating more and more levels that are more stratagy than battling(The basic fundamental of jazz) Just the other day I was on jazz looking at some of the servers I went into it and it had everyone playing some stupid game where u bet money...I hope someone thinks of something better than that for jazz...

I've seen a list of 10 servers. (most of them pinging) :P that's dead, but still a lot nowadays

I think the focus of the community will eventually shift to Single Player.

But playing vs other ppl will always be fun. Until TR 2 comes, if it ever will...

Or SCE 2. *nudgenudgewinkwinkwink*

Originally Posted by Fl@$h

I think the focus of the community will eventually shift to Single Player.

Really? I lost interest in Single Player in 1998 and actually started playing online in 2004.

What did you do in the vacuum years between 1998 and 2004 then...?