I'd like to add to Jason's comments that the performance of the Valve provided servers is significantly degraded when compared to well-run community servers. Now it is difficult to find a server with good performance on anything but a handful of overplayed maps (2fort, dustbowl, turbine, hightower, goldrush). This wasn't the case prior to this change. So I ask that you do one of two things:
Upgrade the Valve provided servers so they can sustain a 66 update rate to all the connected clients (mine routinely drops into the high 30s and low 40s with stable pings, I'm guessing that's CPU overloading) OR Re-enable the communities to provide superior servers. Please? On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Jason Tango <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear TF2 team, > > Would it be possible for you to communicate a status as to if/when the > quickplay changes you made four months ago will be reverted to allow all > community servers to be included in quickplay again by default? > > Fletcher Dunn had stated when this change was made that it would be > temporary, yet four months later as community server after community server > dies out, we've had zero communication on the subject from the TF2 team. > > Why are you no longer talking to server operators? > > Please, guys - communicate to the server community that has supported the > game for so many years. If this is going to be the "default" quickplay > configuration from now on, at least let us know so we can start shutting > off servers as opposed to continuing to pay for hardware in the hopes that > we'll be treated fairly again. We're hanging on here and financially > supporting servers in the hopes that we'll be able to fill them again > someday soon, but if there's no more hope left for us, at least let us know. > > Thank you. > > - JT > > P.S. If I could express to you the extreme sense of hopelessness you are > imposing on the good communities that have built themselves around TF2, I > would. We love this game, and we see the "culture" that so attracted us to > it for all these years slipping away. Please consider the harm you're doing > to the "good" communities out there but effectively diverting half of the > player traffic away from even finding us. Spending years building a > community only to have the rug pulled out from under us has depressed some > of our members so much that they've walked away from the game all together. > These are long-term TF2 players who - if they can't play on the community > servers they helped build - are not going to play anymore at all. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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