Agreed with the Doctor. Quickplay does not promote community building. Also, another great point mentioned by another individual:
Ever since free to play, people don't want to donate to community servers. They would rather spend on items. So, we need ads and full liberty to do whatever we want on the expensive server hardware we're running. There's a simple solution. Valve, tweak the engine to use less resources (we know you won't, too much effort, loss of quality) so it would lessen the cost of renting hardware. OR A very plausible solution (up to the developers) - Figure out a way to give ad enabled servers some quick play penalty. In the long run, this is a very viable solution that does not require custom change. Also, how about the CVAR people use to connect using console to avoid ads. connect IP matchmaking Please Valve, are you really going to try to convince us you put it out there for testing and debugging? You gave all the whiny kids about ads a free get out of ads pass! If you are not going to change anything, at least please remove that CVAR. What do you guys think about the CVAR and quickplay penalty idea?
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