Yeah, well if Valve doesn't even respond to this issue on here, it's certain they don't care :x.
On 5 February 2015 at 22:13, Andreas Willinger <[email protected]> wrote: > Can’t agree more. > > Our 2Fort server barely got empty before the change (even was full for 5 > days straight), but nowadays, I am happy if there are players on it for > more than 6 hours. > > Side note: I have also made such kind of E-Mail a while back, but it seems > like Valve doesn’t give a f* anymore. > > > > *Von:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Gamemann > *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 05. Februar 2015 22:53 > *An:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > *Betreff:* Re: [hlds] Rethinking the community quickplay ban > > > > Finally, somebody made a mailing list post about this major issue. > > Honestly, one special feature Valve had that many other gaming companies > didn’t, is that they had good support for community servers. With this > change to TF2, it completely destroyed that feature Valve appeared to > always have. Before the major change, my DustBowl server always filled up > daily (sometimes not dropping at night), after the major change, well, > there is no DustBowl server due to the lack of activity. > > I do know Valve’s support for community servers is still strong, but I’ve > been noticing a decline for a while now with the popular Valve games. > > I hope Valve realizes this change destroyed something they were known for > (in TF2). > > Thanks. > > On 2/5/2015 4:11 PM, Tim Anderson wrote: > > To the TF2 team, > > > > It has now been over a year since the decision to essentially ban > community servers from quickplay by defaulting to official ones. Here are > some facts of what has happened since then. > > > > - Player gain dropped 4% from the year before. > > - UGC highlander teams dropped 17% > > - Highly reduced map variety from community servers. > > - Even top non-quickplay servers have drastically fewer players than in > 2013. > > > > You may have guaranteed new players a vanilla experience, but this is > ruining the experience for the rest. > > > > Maybe nothing is being done because you do not see enough complaints about > this from reddit or spuf. This is because the problem is obvious when > someone connects to a pay to win server while it is not as obvious when a > server is dying over the span of several months because official ones are > getting all the new players. > > > > Most of the people that I talked to even knew about this change so the > thought about complaining about it never crossed their minds. But just > because they never knew about it doesn't mean it wasn't a problem. > > > > I hope you realize that this change is doing more harm than good. It may > have stopped some complaints but this is hurting TF2 in the long run. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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