As we approach the 2-month mark since Valve's servers were made the "default"
servers for all quickplay players, can the TF2 team give us a time frame when
they will return the system to a "level playing field" for all servers?
As it stands, the players who want to avoid all community servers now have the
ability to do so simply by clicking the "Official Server Only" button, so is it
really necessary to keep driving nearly all quickplay traffic away from
community servers?
In fact, a better question would probably be - is it in TF2's best (long-term)
interest to do so? Helping players find a "home" server where they become a
"regular" creates long-term players, and since so much emphasis (in the design
of the UI) has been placed on guiding players to use quickplay, the longer that
community servers are effectively excluded from that traffic, the more
long-term players the game will likely lose.
The players that only want random games with random people on Valve servers now
have the option to make sure that's all they get, but preventing the rest of
the player base from experiencing all the diversity that the TF2 community can
provide is both unnecessary and unfair to those of us who have never broken any
rules, or violated any policies.
With that in mind, please consider leveling the playing field again asap by
including all community servers by default, and let the players decide for
themselves if they don't want to be a part of that community.
Thanks, guys.
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