A dose of civility goes a long way. While I'm certainly not happy to be seeing the number/frequency of crashes on our servers (and I hope a few people at Valve are willing to give up their weekend to find a fix), I don't think hurling insults Valve's way is constructive in the least. Valve has a long history of learning from their mistakes (as any great company does), and I'm sure this will be no different....and the fact that they HAVE just released a new game mode for a 5 year old game that most of our players find incredibly fun and entertaining earns them alot of leeway in my book.
I'm confident it will get fixed - the sooner the better of course - but I'm not prepared to hurl insults at a company that has done everything it can to keep a game we love moving forward year after year. Unless you guys have experienced the kind of support (or lack thereof) that server operators get from other companies (DICE/EA, Activision, etc. etc.) you have no idea how good we've got it. Give these guys a break. Keep feeding them crash reports/problems you find, and they'll fix it asap. If your communities are so fragile they can't handle a few days of server instability without your players heading for the exits, then I would submit that you have a bigger problem you may need to address. Disagreement and debate are a healthy thing - but once insults start flying, then this list has lost its purpose.
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