This feature was originally implemented for Left 4 Dead 2. There are
some players that seem to be complete a-holes and only harrassing other
people. It works great there, stopping those players coming in to
teamkill everyone but i fail to see use of this for a regular server
that is open to everyone. Unless you want to have those same dudes
blocked in TF2, if they play it too or if someone keeps harrassing you
over Steam.
I assume "with this setting only members of the group that "owns" the
server" means group admins?
Is this going to be affecting quickplay? Someone might add someone to
blacklist just for laughs to drop them off from a server if server isn't
properly configured.
-ics
16.3.2012 8:54, Russell Smith kirjoitti:
It seems like the only useful use case I can think of with this
feature is to create a private steam group of admins for a server.
Then any user the admins block would be kicked from the server.
However, if it's only checking blocked users of connected players this
wouldn't be altogether useful.
What exactly were the use cases Valve saw when coming up with this
feature, Rich?
On 3/15/2012 11:48 PM, dmex wrote:
One problem I see is for semi-large groups like ours:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mypayload
1) If one member has all the admins blocked, none of the admins will
be able to join the server.
2) If the member gets removed from the group there's nothing to stop
them from creating a F2P account, re-joining the group (since it's
public) and causing the same problem all over again.
3) If a user is blocked from a server, they'll just create and use a
F2P account, avoiding the block entirely.
Result:
An annoying feature that's doing nothing other than allowing users to
grief others and endless problems for admins.
Users should never be permitted to block other users from servers
they do not own or control, I think it's been well established in the
past that something like that will be abused.
We have around 12 admins, only one has access to the server console,
if he's not around it could be a few days before the member
preventing the admins from joining is removed but they could just
rejoin the group using a F2P account and cause the same issue. If
anything this feature should allow admins to give extra's to group
members e.g. allowing sprays or in-game voting options if they are
disabled, not blocking people from joining because of some other idiot.
Just my 2c.
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