ics, You're not the only one; i'm seeing the exact same trend on my servers. Traffic is 50-58% decreased and I heavily rely on my community of 5 yrs to get the servers going come mid/late afternoon when they get home from school & work.
If it wasn't for having my community built up for so long my servers would be on the brink of death, give it a few months and without being able to attract more players to replenish the community base i can see my servers dwindling down to nothing. And my servers are in the top 50 on Gametracker. Fletcher - Can you chime in on this, it would be really nice to get a Valve response on the mailing list instead of having to rely on 3rd party sources of email exchanges. I know why Valve has done what they have done but it would be really nice to get some feedback and/or maybe collectively come up with some solutions that favor both the community servers and valves strict 'vanilla' experience. We (community operators) would just like to regain some comfort knowing this isn't the death of us. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:53 PM, ics <i...@ics-base.net> wrote: > Some time has now passed since Valve defaulted quickplay to Valve servers > only on TF2 and we are taking the hit. Roughly half of our servers it now > empty. Changes daily which servers have players and which have not so it's > not really a lack of people not knowing them are there but lack of players > one and nobody enters. They switch to fuller servers and since there isn't > much new players entering automatically and regulars are hesitant to enter > empty ones, this is where we are. > > So after running servers for TF2 since the game came out, this is what i > get, go away message? You don't want me to run servers anylonger? I don't > run crap on servers or advertisements or any mods, except for > administration between servers. Thanks a lot, Valve. > > -ics > > _______________________________________________ > 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
