>> It would be a more realistic solution to switch quickplay settings to community servers after 3-4 hours of playing time.
This far from the worst suggestion I've seen. Perhaps aim for a seemless solution where by "community servers" wasn't even a choice during the first few hours of gameplay, becomes a choice later, then becomes the default after it has been selected a couple of times. I'm not sure a petition is the right way to go though. Particularly one that invites reddit to participate. Valve reads these email strings. A good message makes itself heard. John On 26 Feb 2014 08:12, "Robert Paulson" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not possible unless you did something like switching from fast to > instant respawn. In that case we went from 10 to a whopping 30 quickplay > connects per day which is hardly worth being pleased about. Official > servers are still taking the vast majority of new players who are never > exposed to community servers. > > For those of you who weren't on quickplay this is also bad news for you. > Everyone relies on new players since old players quit all the time. Fewer > players become aware of community servers because it is too easy to just > click play now. > > If you have a top server you will see more players for now, but these are > mostly older players fleeing killed servers who will not be playing > forever. The new equilibrium hasn't been reached yet and we will see more > servers die as long as Valve continues this. Unfortunately this will be a > slow decline with many server owners not realizing they are a few months > away from dying as well. > > I am all for trying a petition but people will not associate with someone > who has such a bad reputation. The solution being offered, "provide an > option to choose either Valve only servers or Community servers on every > quickplay connect" would annoy everyone. It would be a more realistic > solution to switch quickplay settings to community servers after 3-4 hours > of playing time. > > > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Peter Jerde <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I don't know about you, but our quickplay traffic has more than TRIPLED >> since the changes. Seems to have been quite a positive change. >> >> - Peter >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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