Can you cite your source? On 1/24/14, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > In my experience, 19% of people who join via Quickplay come back. That's > not an insignificant number. > > > Dr. McKay > www.doctormckay.com > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Gordon Reynolds < > thisisgordonsem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >
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