The problem is that a very large portion of (ignorant) players prefer Valve servers for some asinine reason.
Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:08 PM, dan <needa...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 24/01/2014 18:04, thesupremecommander wrote: > >> I actually sent an email to Valve about a week or so ago (back when this >> issue was just bubbling up) asking them to implement a CS:GO >> Overwatch-type >> system for TF2 servers. I still think that such a system is the best way >> to >> go without requiring Valve to manually police servers themselves, allowing >> community owners to still compete for QuickPlay traffic with servers both >> following the intent and the text of Valve's QuickPlay rules, and giving >> players the same unadulterated vanilla experience that they want. >> > > I just joined a valve server with quickplay and 'official servers' checked > to play 2fort. > > The experience of joining is pretty good. Fast and I got a server with a > low ping > that played well. > > All I can say to the folks here is though, if you can't compete with a > Valve server, switch > off your servers and bake cakes to sell because you're in the wrong game. > > It was a complete farce. Barely anyone knew how to cap, where to cap, > or what the objectives were. Neither team had any defence, certainly no > engineers. > > I was told what I was doing was "impossible" (i.e shooting nades at people > and hitting them) > > So, relax. No one who sits facing the shiny side of their monitor > will be playing on Valve servers via quickplay for any length of time > because > the servers are swamped with the confused and bewildered. > > You can (as I have in the past) jump from valve server to valve server and > find a decent round, but you'd spend all day doing that with > the quickplay button joining random servers. > > Who knows, perhaps the official checkbox will mix up the player base and > change > that, but right now that doesn't appear to be the case. > -- > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
