Tldr run what you can afford. Fixes everything. Sent from my iPhone 5
> On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Supreet <[email protected]> wrote: > > Valve, > > Listen. People make good money off of running their TF2 servers. Moreover, it > helps them pay for the servers. > > Why don't you just take all our liberty away, pull an EA and cut dedicated > servers and host them all yourself? > > Quickplay has only been beneficial to free to play players or what I like to > call "Window Gamers". They try a game because its free then after a while > they leave the game because they're bored of hopping on random servers > through quick play and finding ads everywhere. > > The liberty and freedom of browsing through a server list was an amazing idea > so you should keep to it. > > Your quick play scoring system is pretty stupid and flawed. Why? Because its > HEAVILY BIASED. > > Over time, there's just been servers that get a behemoth influx of players > and and the quick play system starts favoring them. Therefore, ignoring the > possibility of any potentially better servers people might like if they ended > up on them. > > You should really consider stopping your shenanigans. You can't make up your > own mind Valve. You released an update months ago with vague release notes > about the removal of HTML motds then you modified it and now you just > released another update. > If you really cared about the game server operators, you would remove this bs > "tweak" and give server operators the liberty to use methods to recovery > money to cover costs and pocket money for their efforts. > > OR > > Build a better dedicated server that doesn't eat up so many resources so > server operators don't have to pay $30 a month for a single server to a > hosting company. There are communities that run great servers and multiple of > them. Imagine the frikkin cost of servers Skial has to deal with, with their > massive 80 something servers. > > These ads help pay for these expensive DDoS protected servers hosted by big > communities. > > A lot of concerned people have offered their tiny bits of tweaks and > solutions to your update but it will never stop. > > Either pull an EA and remove MOTDs overall, doom us all so we can get some > closure and move on LOL or let server operators have the freedom to run their > server the way they want. > > Why don't you just work with the ad companies and get them to make a variable > that tells the quickplay system read if the server is ad enabled, or maybe > through sv_tags and DEDUCT score off of quickplay. > > It'll make all the complaining kids happy. 50% less chance I'll end up on an > ad enabled server. > > Many thanks and regards. > > Please contribute to this discussion in a professional and cognitively > inclined manner and refrain from being monkeys yelling at each other on the > mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
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