Freeriderhd Buyout

i feel like u have enough authority to contact them lol, the only issue would be getting them to listen, kano is lowkey being a bit greedier than usual :c (i have to sugarcoat so i don't get cancelled)

this is from 2024 tho. the Charlie alt was inactive back then, but the game was pretty similar to in 2026, except that 2026 had more OGs and 2024 had more newgens




also, i found this. i'm not sure if this is true but
rip 144 hz players

 

Such a difficult dilemma. I'd do a lot to give ppl the same childhood this game gave me. Really feels like kano has just forgotten every single one of us, even though it could be a huge asset were it marketed and updated well. A good update wouldn't even take that much imo (not that I've even touched code in my life), but even simply implementing freerider.app into the editor would do a world of change for newer players. Ofc it wouldn't be enough to revive the game, but it would def be a start. I'm sure there are at least 100 active players who would be willing to chip in 500USD+ myself included towards the cause of buying the game, but the logistics of that would be hella risky if put in the wrong hands, so I'm pretty wary ngl. idk why im speaking tho I have no connection to any discord or game dev, and not a complete understanding of this games history. Ive just bloody loved the game for the past 7-8 years for whatever reason.

 

I bet it wouldn't be impossible for us to make a primitive freeriderhd knockoff and advertize it ourselves because KANO doesn't give 2 *****. ill bet they wouldn't even fight legally if we made a similar game. idk I'm just spitballing; there's definitely a better way about this

 

Totally agreed. On the coding end(can’t say I’m that much of an expert but I’ve done a bit) implementing freerider.app is not actually that hard to do. However, adding additional things such as a new vehicle is really a lot more tricky than you might think. I’ve spent hours messing with the physics trying to make bots or alternative movement systems and I’m still not quite sure how they made their physics engine(maybe someone else knows this is js me tho)

 

ngl, if all kano wants is money, they'll eventually sell frhd to another company for extra money once ad revenue stops (i feel like at least 1 rising company would be interested) - the most likely

but if they don't really care about the game or if nobody wants it, they'd just shut it down - unlikely

depends on how desperate they are for $$$

 

players' history is getting purged much faster than usual, i still have a feeling kano is struggling financially

https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/mnnice
https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/urabni
https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/muchopanda
offline for 3 weeks and it's already purged

offline for 2 weeks and already purged
https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/autoboi
https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/hypercube
https://www.freeriderhd.com/u/anonyymi

It used to take a month

 

What exactly do you mean by purged, though? all their history pages are clear and available at least on my account. are the visible tracks not the ones they last did?

 

oh yea i used the wrong word, ig the game just resets the history/ghosts to the tracks with lower IDs to save storage

but it's happening way more often now

 

Tbh I don't think Kano is desperate for money considering they have 110+ employees, but I think it's idea that Kano wants to put their resources onto towards other assets (like mobile games etc). I think the idea is that Kano wants to slowly shut down FRHD considering that none of the employees really necessarily want to or allowed to work on the game. FRHD from the start and was always kind of a failed game, slowly to die considering that FRHD didn't have the amount of popularity as FR2, and when Kano realized it, they abandoned it seeing what's the point to continue FRHD. Although throughout the years the game has maintained a strong community, I don't think Kano has any interest anytime soon to come back, as said before in other statements, the only reason the game is running is probably for extra sums of cash from ads.

 

I think uploading to Steam is the best way forward, if we can get the rights to do that legally. The game could exist in a similar space to the game Trackmania, as the 2 games are actually remarkably similar in terms of player base and community(theirs is just a lot bigger)

 

yea, thinking about it, it kinda makes sense to launch on steam
not sure if kano would care enough to sue us (no sugarcoating this time), but they prob would if the clone becomes big enough

also, i'm not sure if trackmania has any art, so frhd could be very innovative instead of competing with it

ig trackmania has some sort of ghosting/speedrunning scene but i've never played trackmania lol

 

what does kano have that's bigger (and gets more updates) than free rider hd anyway speaking of which xd

 

I mean why bother with free rider when they’re busy making peak??

 

LMAO i found out they last updated all their play store games (except frhd i think) in august 2026, meaning they still exist ig

alr, i found some proof that this Charlie account is indeed Char. interesting how he randomly logged on 4 months ago


also i found this. i feel like this is a frhd clone
https://apps.apple.com/br/app/draw-rider/id629065073

it also has a paid version (???)
https://apps.apple.com/br/app/draw-rider-plus/id629059031

lol their clone added so many features, even the glider and unicycle

but kano never sued it or take it down lol

it did change the vehicle appearance, but everything remained very similar

i assume that prevents them from being sued

 

i feel like the obvious interesting point here is that they didn't get sued, so maybe a clone of our own could do the same. Although the fact that it only has 16 reviews on the App Store might mean kano didn't see it as worthwhile to sue. im not sure really, im gonna try to reverse engineer the physics of the mountain bike today and see where i get. maybe if someone knows about website hosting we could figure that element out as well

 

it did very well in play store tho, over 74k reviews and over 5m downloads (over 10x more than frhd iirc)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Studio17.drawrider

 

alr, kano simply does not care enough to sue Draw Rider, despite it being very successful.

https://www.freeriderhd.com/draw-rider
this page basically says
"oh it's a random mobile game that got popular by copying us, and recently it copied our checkpoints"
"so ummm... anyways, it's a frhd clone, but we're planning on releasing our own mobile version of free rider hd in 2015 and add a lot of stuff!! :>"


dude this frhd ripoff has so many more features than frhd... crazy....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Studio17.drawrider

but i've never played it so idk lol

 

If there ever is a free rider buy out I’d prolly chip 500 in, maybe more.

 

ye, i agree

but what about our tracks that took so much effort? we have to transfer the good ones

pretty sure most of the better bhr tracks were archived but still... we'd kinda need to warn the playerbase about the botting and make a database for our tracks

imagine all our masterpieces randomly deleted by kano lost to time with no warning... hundreds of people used to no-life this game.. it had a very strong community even after covid

about oceanadventure's track, i'd say some of the older numbers (e.g. community classics) are inflated since newgens can find these older tracks on play random and they've been there fiorever

i'd say Radium_RC's "decade" track explains the pre-2020 scenario better tbh

but anything after 2014 is decently accurate. the dropoff from early 2023 to early 2024 is insane and instantly noticeable

i feel like botting to shut down frhd would lead to the same outcome (but worse), this game might be shut down in less than 3 years. it'd give us less time to archive our tracks and prepare in fact

but the thing is, we have no idea when they will shut down..

but it shouldn't be too hard to destroy their servers, as u can see from my older messages, they're purging/resetting a lot of stuff faster than usual

also the forums is just broken lol, many pfps/images don't load