I have a feeling your 10% daily growth in the past is going to plenty to keep you afloat in these hard times.
On 1/24/14, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > Except most of Quickplay has just been shut off from us. > > > Dr. McKay > www.doctormckay.com > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Nerdboy <nerdb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Ok, but if you have ~50% quickplay traffic, and you're retaining ~20% >> of it, you should be set for a while. Just don't buy any more servers >> for a bit. >> >> On 1/24/14, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: >> > I log a bunch of stats about all players who connect to my community. I >> > queried my database. >> > >> > This is the plugin to log stats: >> > https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=230832 >> > >> > >> > Dr. McKay >> > www.doctormckay.com >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Nerdboy <nerdb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> 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 >> >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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
