One more thing in addition to this that i forgot to mention. "Average
joe" who just wants to skip into the game doesn't spend time finding
good servers, he picks quickplay and starts playing. While the Official
valve servers option is ticked by default, this will lead to Valve
server every single time. Because they run the game how Valve ment it to
be, the rest of us in between custom and official will take the hit. My
initial suggestion would be to take that tick off by default and let the
player decide to put it in or not. This of course would mean that you
actually do something to bad servers out there.
-ics
ics kirjoitti:
Problem with this new option is that players are ignorant and think
that only valve servers are the best. So the new player or new'ish one
picks Valve server every single time. The rest of us with old players
will be here some time but the players will decrease since quickplay
isn't filling the rest of the slots as fast anymore as it did before
due to this option. Players are also suspicious for community servers
because they have seen all kinds of crap in them. Why the hell punish
community servers as a whole and not remove the stupid ones from
quickplay competely?
I'll give this system a week, after this weekend i will see the
immediate impact this has on my servers and after a week, i will see
the most of it. Will definitely post back here the results.
It's not like i hate to host servers to TF2 but you guys at Valve are
seriously making it not so enjoyable anymore as it used to and harder
to have servers with players on them. I don't even tease players with
advertisement, donation requests or anything extra crap that some
servers run. It's simply vanilla with sourcemod administration and
sourcebans integration.
Like someone said, CSGO is a bad meter for seeing how you can split to
official and community servers. There are very few rare servers that
actually get populated every night.
-ics
Chris Oryschak kirjoitti:
Agreed. Why don't you punish the communities/servers that are abusing
this. Every step a good community takes moves forward to attempt to
retain
the player gets flushed down the drain with these changes.
Quickplay is ultimately useless for any community, unless you are valve.
I currently have 235 players on my servers right now, of all of those
only
23 players are from quickplay. Seriously running servers for this
game is
slowly becoming unenjoyable as a hobby.
One day they will hopefully realize that the communities they are truly
hurting are the ones that helped make them $139mil last year.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:11 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
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