If your players were only in your servers because of quickplay, they probably do not care one iota about your Server (the entity that is the collection of your hardware, admins, regulars, plugins, etc), you were just some hallway that connected them from "not playing TF2" to "playing TF2".
When their match is done and over, they hit disconnect, never add you to favorites, and may never show back up again. You could see this as "Valve stealing your quickplay traffic" or you could see this as "Valve rounding up the people who mash PLAYNOW and have no interest in dedicated servers, or server communities". It's a changing demographic - people just want to play videogames, not really sign up for a whole 'favorite server loyalty program'. And who cares if our servers "die out"? What are we out? Ego? On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > For lack of a better word, this is the last stand of community servers. > > The smaller communities that depend on Quickplay to gain popularity will > die out. We'll be left with nothing but the already-large-and-established > server chains, like Lotus, Skial, Saigns, and NighTeam. > > > Dr. McKay > www.doctormckay.com > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Gordon Reynolds < > thisisgordonsem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm not sure this is that big of a deal. > > > > I've yet to see a single sane suggestion on how they police bad servers > > other than "have people report them", which sounds like a bad idea for > many > > hopefully obvious reasons. > > > > These are just video game servers; you aren't making money off them, if > > they sit empty you aren't losing money off them either [more than the > cost > > of running the server, which you're already doing]. And if you are > (making > > or losing money), then I would say Valve wants to put those kind of > servers > > out, as they generally fart up the experience with donation requests, or > > donor perks, annoying MOTDs, sound packs, or whatever else you crazy > > SourceMod kiddies do nowadays. > > > > People here are acting as if this some last stand situation. > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Game-Over <gameover.serv...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > We've spoken before via Email and as an honest server operator I have > > > followed your directions via email to the letter. > > > > > > So, Fletcher, please justify this ludicrous move you have now made to > > > Quickplay, after all of the support that we (us) genuine server owners > > have > > > given you in the past years. > > > > > > You chose this route rather than actually dealing with corrupt server > > > owners themselves, which we (on this mailing list) have asked you to do > > on > > > multiple occasions. > > > > > > Looking forward to your reply sir. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
