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Originally Posted by Kalcor The DVD version of San Andreas has a license that allows for mods. The steam version doesn't. SA-MP players peaked in 2013. 0.3x was the last version released where the total player count went up. You're starting to understand some of the reasons why. But I've already known this for years.

0.3x was the version where SA:MP servers were filled with bots. There are many servers (at least in Romania) which kickstarted by faking their playerbase by filling half of their slots with bots, and then removing them one by one as the server was rising. And the idea was "stolen" from the russian servers, which occupied an extremely large percentage of the SA:MP playerbase. This method then slowly dissappeared as players found out what was happening.

I'm sorry to say this, but it's a pity to see that the other mp modification of GTA:SA is in a continuous growth while SA:MP has such an obviously bigger potential. We, the Romanian server owners, struggle bringing back players to the game because their answer is always "everything is the same, nothing unique anymore", even though we made use of every little thing we gained from SA:MP server updates.