> 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 don't like this modification to my idea. The point of it was to overcome the huge inertia to simply click play now. They need to be automatically switched to community servers. It is supposed to be a compromise which guarantees players the ability to learn what plain tf2 is supposed to be without completely screwing over communities like what's happening now. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:30 AM, John Irwin <j...@thepodkast.com> wrote: > >> 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" <thepauls...@gmail.com> 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 <peter-h...@jerde.net>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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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