Will LS-RP survive?

[packer]

Let’s be honest and this comes from love.

LS-RP is dying. Not because the script is bad, it’s amazing. And not because people dont care, they do. But because the focus has slowly shifted away from what actually keeps a server alive.

Right now, the server is technically surviving. Ads keep it online. A few players come and go. But that is not living, that’s just keeping the lights on.

Remember the old days? When you had to wait 10–15 minutes just to log in, hoping someone would crash because every slot was full? That feeling is why people fell in love with LS-RP in the first place.

What hurts the most is that there are so many old players out there who still talk about LS-RP, who still wish it would come back. People who say, ”if LS-RP was active again, I would return instantly.” The interest never disappeared it just went quiet.

And at the same time, there are genuinely bad servers out there pulling thousands of active players every single day. Not because they’re better, but because people actually know they exist. LS-RP is slowly being forgotten, and that shouldn’t be happening.

The biggest issue is simple: there is zero functioning marketing.

 No real outreach. No visibility. No push to bring new players in or to bring old ones back.

Instead, energy is going into things that don’t solve the core problem like RAGEMP, random events, and side projects. Those things are not evil, but they’re just not what saves a server when the playerbase is bleeding.

What LS-RP needs isn’t more features.
It needs players.It needs energy. It needs life.

LS-RP was built on SA-MP. SA-MP isn’t dead, and it wont be even when GTA 6 drops. The audience is still there. Always has been.

This doesn’t require years, a new script, or a miracle, it just requires trying.

This also is not about blaming anyone. At this point, that doesn’t matter. What matters is doing something now, while there is still time.

 

I run a marketing firm. This is literally what I do. And with permission from @Mmartin, I’m willing to have my team run one full week of real marketing for LS-RP outreach, visibility, and bringing eyes back to the server. No changes, no takeovers just visibility and data.

LS-RP can be big again. Bigger than it’s ever been.

And if it starts moving again, people will come back.

If we still care about LS-RP, now is the moment to prove it.

 

Please discuss because the time to act is now.

 

- Retired Lead Admin 2007, @packer

[Gnarp]

Save us, packer (retired Lead admin 2007)... 

The fate of LSRP lays in your hands

Edited 21 hours ago by Gnarp

[Famous]

2 hours ago, Gnarp said:

Save us, packer (retired Lead admin 2007)... 

The fate of LSRP lays in your hands

what he said

Edited 19 hours ago by Famous

[Chicken Bargain]

Mmartin left like 4 months ago good luck 

[packer]

27 minutes ago, Chicken Bargain said:

Mmartin left like 4 months ago good luck 

Tag @ whoever runs this shit right now, I will sit down with him in PMs and handle this 

 

 

[Michael_Dippolito]

I said this about a year and some change ago, but a good start would’ve been highlighting official factions in one promotional video. Just a showcase of what there is to offer to new people. 

[Killtosurvive]

I know you trying to get unbanned Packer but it aint worth man this is dead

 

 

[packer]

51 minutes ago, Killtosurvive said:

I know you trying to get unbanned Packer but it aint worth man this is dead

 

 

 

[Chicken Bargain]

3 hours ago, packer said:

Tag @ whoever runs this shit right now, I will sit down with him in PMs and handle this 

 

 

No idea who actually runs this shit show these days. I don’t think anyone actually runs it. I think the administrative team at this point are all running the server with their tails between their legs and eyeballs sewn shut. 

Edited 14 hours ago by Chicken Bargain

[Jugers]

I followed my leader, the man, the myth, the legend, the first /me typer. I fell for the cause, because I followed his path that noone else did, and yet I am here again for him. The solution is one and only.

 

#FREETHERAPISTSGANG

#FREETHETURKS

#FREEBLUEBERRY

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Jugers

[NedLudd]

There are only two constants in life: LSRP and threads about how LSRP was better 5 years ago.

[Bowlcutkid]

SAMP isn't dead, but the audience LS-RP needs to keep its SAMP server alive isn't there anymore because Rage/FiveM/GTA V exists and is superior in almost everyway. Is there a single English speaking server left on SAMP anymore that hits higher numbers than LS-RP? Because looking at the server list I'm only seeing Russia and Asia servers with players, and they have players because SAMP is easy to run and accessible to anyone with any PC, whereas GTA V can be demanding on older equipment which I'd guess a majority of those players are using. 

 

There's a 0% chance of LS-RP gaining players on SAMP at this point. Accept SAMP is over, close the server, focus on Rage.

[packer]

1 hour ago, Bowlcutkid said:

SAMP isn't dead, but the audience LS-RP needs to keep its SAMP server alive isn't there anymore because Rage/FiveM/GTA V exists and is superior in almost everyway. Is there a single English speaking server left on SAMP anymore that hits higher numbers than LS-RP? Because looking at the server list I'm only seeing Russia and Asia servers with players, and they have players because SAMP is easy to run and accessible to anyone with any PC, whereas GTA V can be demanding on older equipment which I'd guess a majority of those players are using. 

 

There's a 0% chance of LS-RP gaining players on SAMP at this point. Accept SAMP is over, close the server, focus on Rage.

 

You can make the best pizza in the city, but if you cook it in a basement with no sign and tell nobody, you will sell zero slices. Not because pizza is bad. Because nobody knows where it is.

 

 

And ”Focus on Rage” is honestly funny.

 

We already did. RAGE MP launched, couldnt keep up with GTA world, activity dropped, and it got shut down. That experiment already answered itself.

 

RP-wise it was never close either. Peak LS-RP had realism, identity, real factions people still talk about today. Rage turned into everyones worst nightmare. Mall rats took over the server. No patience, no realism, no long term thinking. And not one single memorable faction came out of it. Nothing. No legacy.

 

And now the plan is to double down on Rage while GTA 6 is around the corner and GTA V is clearly on borrowed time?

 

The GTA World guys must be laughing watching this panic.

 

SA-MP survived because it became culture.

 

Chasing Rage now is not strategy.

It’s being late again and pretending it’s forward thinking. And that 0 percent chance shit you talking about just screams weak mindset, you already folded… so now you pretend it’s impossible. 

 

[Angellify]

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[shmoney]

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