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Originally Posted by Abagail I don't know if this is true or not but it seems like SA-MP in whole is dying even though I thought it was increasing not that long ago. GTA V is probably to blame.

People will cite statistics like www.popznet.com and claim it isn't but the statistics need some translating. If you combine it with output from SACNR Monitor you'll see that:

1) SA-MP isn't dying, it is growing per the statistics though the growth is entirely from eastern european players like the Russians. They hold the vast majority of the top 25 servers which account for a huge amount of the player base. Russians don't speak english and thus they take no part in the SA-MP community via forum postings, IRC chat, beta testing, or contributing code. They are almost always takers and never givers.

2) The community as you know it (irc, forum, contributions of code) is dying. Most of the major code contributors have either lost interest or their contributions have reached a level of maturity to where they really don't want to code any more and focus on things, like their real lives.

3) Stunt/freeroam/DM servers are mostly dead and gone with exception to UIF still going strong. All the growth is with RP servers which tend to be just clones of existing released game modes.