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Originally Posted by Kalcor SA-MP was started in 2005. I'm too old to play SA-MP now. I don't want to be playing games on servers where everyone is younger than me. I keep this site online since people still want to play. The mod could be developed further but I have to rely on feedback from English server owners, and those servers aren't being developed as much anymore. GTA:SA is getting old. SA-MP is on the home stretch. Everyone knows it.

Well, generally this might be right, but... I assume we have the 2nd-3rd largest english community on our two english servers, our player base has been growing ever since 2008, and it still continues growing nowadays. I keep developing the gamemode all the time, we have some updates nearly every day.

But to be honest, doing regular updates is worthless, if nobody knows about it. That's why I believe, utube plays significant role in letting players know, what's new. I agree that utube is not perfect, I myself have struggled with censorship, but I assume we have to take what we get, since there is no better alternative. And putting the negative part aside, utube has brought many new players into SA-MP. We have always been actively cooperating with utubers, some of them even have over 200k subscribers, who regularly make videos from our servers and by that, they're promoting SA-MP as well. A lot of players wouldn't know about SA-MP, if they didn't watch these videos. I have some stats from my servers and I may say it's thousands of players.

I think Videos & Screenshots were essential part of these forums as well. Since many players might have been coming here to check what's new and some features could hook them into playing. Where are they supposed to find the videos or screenshots otherwise? To my knowledge, there is no such a place now. Therefore I'm affraid this might indirectly contribute to SA-MP losing more players.