Sure the new quickplay stuff is opt-out, like the player slots restriction that was added to CS:S; but it's hopefully a remembered setting and one time thing.
This is probably a horrible time, but honestly I'm glad to see Valve is reverting their decision to jump into bed with Pinion. I can't wait for their ad-powered L4D and L4D2 servers to disappear. I can't really blame any communities because it's not like they came up with the idea on their own. Valve started promoting the usage with their `Quickplay` servers, and it went from there into other games. Reverting it now seems to be a half-handed action... http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32478884&postcount=11 http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=33551508&postcount=13 Hell, they even have a special user-group on SPUF. Not to be that guy, but I think ProdigySim said it best: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=32997278&postcount=12 . They're still trying to recruit communities too. About 9? months ago they (Pinion Arthur) contacted myself and a few others on Steam to add their plugin to our servers... Hopefully we'll see a day where Valve becomes unified and stops officially supporting Ads in games, without cabbals inner-fighting and sending mixed messages to everyone. Forever waiting, Kyle. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > While I agree with what you are saying, what does cl_connectmethod have to > do with any of this? > On Jan 23, 2014 9:12 PM, "Robert Paulson" <thepauls...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
