San Andreas Multiplayer: Difference between revisions

Once San Andreas had been released for the PC on Jun 10, 2005 work continued in the same way as it did for ''VC:MP'' - by working away in private and periodically releasing screenshots and videos on their website, and answering peoples questions via their forums (which eventually changed from their small hosting to a subforum on the largest GTA community, [http://www.gtanet.com/ GTANet]/[http://www.gtaforums.com GTA Forums], which also hosted the IRC channel).  All was going as it would have expected, until something unexpected and un-welcomed by the community happened: the Development team decided that, to keep San Andreas the way it was meant to be played, that the mod would have a total shift in development path - instead of having a Multiplayer supporting a large number of players in a Deathmatch style, they wold instead change it entirely to a Co-Op style mod supporting 6 players.  Their idea was that you would be able to play much like single player - with pedestrians, cops chasing you, and following the ever changing storyline - but with 5 of your friends doing it with you.  It was a very novel idea, but it was widely rejected by the community and the new forums at GTANet where filled with hate towards the '''SA:MP''' development team, no matter how much the team tried to promote the idea.  With a large project such as this one, which requires community backing, things did not look well.