I no longer understand. Is this a rant about MOTD changes, or is it an argument about Quickplay? Now, I fail to see the point in changes to the MOTD - game hosts should have the freedom to decide what players are met with when they join their server, regardless of how that user got there.
Quickplay, on the other hand, is a system with good intentions: to get inexperienced players straight into a game without having to try and decode the server list. This much I agree with. The vetting process that adds servers to this pool, however, is arguably flawed in the sense that the same servers that have managed to get on to that system will always be on there. You can argue, though, that if a server gets enough players to be added to the QJ pool, that they're good candidates for adding new players anyway. That's what the system was designed for - why dump new players onto an empty server? If you're one of those empty server operators and you're reading this, ask yourself this: "What are these other operators doing that I'm not?" How would you modify the system in such a way that it would favour your servers over the others? How would you make that distinction?
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