Couldn't agree more! I'm still hoping they will come to their senses and
either pull it or at least rework so its achieves the goals they set
out to.
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "P. Bhandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Spot on L. Duke, it's unfortunate that Valve hasn't adopted the same common
> sense approach to the matter.
>
> As it is now there's an incentive to mislead players which ends up making it
> more difficult for players to find custom servers rather than easier, which
> clearly isn't the goal of the custom tab. If all servers are on one tab and
> they can be sorted based on tags server owners will have a reason to be
> upfront about the modifications they're running. Servers running instant
> spawn or increased crit multipliers want players to know that they're
> running those addons, unfortunately with the current incarnation of the
> custom tab it's far too damaging to do so.
>
> Sadly this will just end up being another footnote of this mailing list.
> Valve will continue its crusade against the custom tab list, and the
> majority of server owners will continue to subvert it. Valve ends up wasting
> money, server owners end up wasting time which results in the players losing
> out the most. A lose, lose situation regardless of the angle.
>
> Implement all of the servers on a single tab and make it easy to sort
> through those servers. If you give all servers equivalent face time when a
> user first loads up the list it will be in a server owners best interest to
> be forthcoming about the game altering plugins/hacks they are running.
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