Mr. Loveless is somehow correct.
I indeed run motdgd on my servers, but that's for a legit reason, I have
to pay more than 350$ monthly in server fees and I'm just a simple student.
I would never have enough money to even pay one server without the aid
of the ads.
Besides, I host gameservers since 2008 and run ads since 2011/2012 (I
think i was one of the first to begin with this technique) and players
have always learned to accept the fact that for such a great service
they had to either donate to support or accept the adverts.
Now, regarding my current situation on CSGO, i do not run adverts every
5 minutes that scare people away, I care about my players and my
community and always tried to match their needs.
This change of traffic has happened during this past week, and i really
doubt that all of a sudden every player decided my community is pure
evil and must be avoided. So I wonder why and that's why I'm here
seeking help from people that like me, enjoy serving csgo with some
different content.
PS: I'm well aware of that, i do not run these kind of plugins on my
servers and enforce such rule on my clients too.
Best regards,
Niko
On 10/22/2015 23:22, Ian wrote:
If Mr. Loveless is correct, the sort of adverts you are/were running
do scare away people very easily, and can be very detrimental to your
server traffic. People get bothered by adverts very easily, and it's
incredibly simple for them to see your server name and say "No, I dont
want to go back on that server, it makes my ears bleed from adverts
every 5 minutes".
That being said, there might be a legitimate issue with your traffic,
but the adverts may impact your server traffic more than you may think.
P.S. You should remove the knife and ws plugins before *all* your
servers get blacklisted for *3 months*.
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