Why did LSRP community go back to SAMP ?

[trouble1]

Back in 2023, I heard LSRP developpers wanted to make a new roleplay server on RAGE:MP ( which looked way better and promising than gta world in my opinion). What did happen ? Was it canceled or the developpers are planning to make a comeback on RAGE:MP? I remember being so hyped till it was canceled, what a shame.

[Chicken Bargain]

On 11/27/2025 at 6:21 PM, trouble1 said:

Back in 2023, I heard LSRP developpers wanted to make a new roleplay server on RAGE:MP ( which looked way better and promising than gta world in my opinion). What did happen ? Was it canceled or the developpers are planning to make a comeback on RAGE:MP? I remember being so hyped till it was canceled, what a shame.

 

Thinking any management or developer was ever going to properly create and run an LSRP RAGE:MP server was nothing but a pipe dream homie, hate to break it to you. 

 

The reopening in 2023 was on a timer from the beginning. @Mmartin reopened, promised the community that /our/ community would continue on GTA V. But in reality he took donator funds to fuel his gambling addiction and left his team and this community with a literal dumpster fire. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas has phased out. A terrible ending to a such a legendary story.

 

We aren't even attempting to showcase our community on social media, which at this point would be the bare minimum. 

 

As a community member I am very disappointed in what ended up being. 

 

PS: when they remove this post and forum ban me for suggesting Mmartin gambles with our donator funds that he has been accumulating for the past two years… Just ask yourself after overhead was paid for with donated money what projects or outsourced teams were hired or created with to help develop and facilitate a server transitions onto RAGE these last two years? None. 

Edited 9 hours ago by Chicken Bargain

[Gnarp]

9 hours ago, Chicken Bargain said:

We aren't even attempting to showcase our community on social media, which at this point would be the bare minimum. 

 

As a community member I am very disappointed in what ended up being.

I see this point reiterated time and time again in discussions, it's entirely kept afloat by wishful thinking.

Any effective marketing is large scale, because out of every 10000 people that see something, 100 will check it out, 10 join and maybe 3 will stick around. This is assuming that LSRP content would ever reach this 'large scale' scenario, which it won't. 

 

What would they show?

 

I'd maybe feel some intrigue to a (rare) GTA SA video on my feed, but it's called a feed because you're being fed slop from it; they couldn't call it a trough as that'd be too obvious.

A majority of people who consume short form content - slop, have awfully short attention spans. They aren't gonna sit through a clip of two guys standing in front of each other stumbling through /me lines, no matter how interesting the RP itself is. 

 

I've actually seen a handful of videos made on LSRP on my instagram reels feed, they had like 3 likes and were made to promote some guy's soundcloud...? Not sure who it is, but their reach tells you enough about the potential social media marketing has for a SAMP RP server. (They were not bad at all, quite scenic actually.)   

 

I recently, on impulse, ordered an air fryer from an ad I saw on this forum. This ad worked on me because I was googling air fryers a few days earlier; I was part of the small niche of people who want to buy an air fryer - marketing relies on finding that target group for your product and poking it until somebody caves in.

This is not something LSRP would find on social media, maybe if we were an Indonesian TDM server it would. 

 

We are, however, already hitting this target group of 'SAMP Heavy RP players' with what the current content creation team pumps out, that's literally the best you can get. 

 

t. I'm a marketing major irl