First they came for the custom attachments, and I did not speak out. Because I did not use it. Then they came for fast respawn, and I did not speak out. Because I did not use it. Then they came for increased slots, and I did not speak out. Because I did not use it. Then they came for the MOTD, and I did not speak out. Because it would hurt others more than me. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
This is a repeat of the "Custom Tabs" fiasco. Except Valve probably won't remove it this time because they can wave the evidence that a minority of players use quickplay, despite the fact that quickplay has a monopoly on new players and without them your server is dead. Your current players won't play TF2 forever. I saw this coming a mile away when Valve released the cl_connectmethod convar. As I have said time and time again, Valve has obligations to server owners as well as players. We, or at least I, bought TF2 expecting not to have our hosting abilities crippled so much. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > Why? > > Adding a "Valve servers only" checkbox (that's checked by default) is going > to hurt enough (and only those communities that are playing by the rules; > cheating communities will just steal *more* traffic from the legitimate > communities). > > It's now all but impossible to try to retain a client who joined via > Quickplay (and those are the clients we *need* to retain). We can't show > them our website. We can't even allow them to use a menu to jump to another > one of our servers anymore. > > Please think about what you're doing. If your intention is to harm the good > communities, you're doing a fine job at it. > > Dr. McKay > www.doctormckay.com > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
