Oklesekg snfcnmlgfyuuc Den 7 nov 2013 22:55 skrev "Doctor McKay" <[email protected]>:
> On one hand, TF2 is free. On the other, even if you did pay for the game, > none of that money goes to the person hosting the servers you play on. > > Unless you're paying for the server yourself, the ultimate control of the > server is up to whoever pays the bills. > > > Dr. McKay > www.doctormckay.com > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Saint K. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forced in-game ads are evil. >> >> >> >> You’ve already paid for the game, why watch ads? >> >> >> >> There never was such a problem until quickplay and motd allowing video. >> >> >> >> Build a good community and likable servers, and you shall have your money >> through donations. We haven’t done it any differently in the past 15 years >> and we’re still doing so today. >> >> >> >> People are willing to donate bits for a fun community to play at who has >> their own servers up and running. >> >> >> >> The whole problem here is quickplay, you have tons of people roaming >> around random servers without an real good opportunity to bind them to your >> community. Before people would search for likable servers and add them to >> their favorites. These people would then return and start to get familiar >> with other people at the servers. This allowed for great community building. >> >> >> >> Unfortunately I don’t expect VALVe ever to turn off quickplay. That’s why >> I think communities will slowly start to die out. >> >> >> >> I can remember days where 90% of the players in a server had a >> clan/community tag In front of their name, nowadays you barely ever see >> them. >> >> >> >> Saint K. >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Supreet >> *Sent:* Thursday, November 07, 2013 7:58 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs >> >> >> >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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