To be honest, TF2's player base has changed a lot since the quick-play
change. Most of the players who have played on the community servers are
gone since their communities died and they don't want to play on Valve
official servers where there is no actual community. It seems the new
TF2 player base is completely against any community server because when
they think about community servers, they think about video ads and
pay-to-win.
I do understand people don't want to join servers with ads and
pay-to-win features but saying there are no good community servers is
complete bullshit. There are great communities out there still who do
not display video ads on their servers and give a vanilla experience,
but sadly, their servers are empty most of the time because of the
quick-play change.
With that being said, server owners displaying video ads on their
servers and having pay-to-win features aren't help. I would highly
suggest getting rid of these two things if you can. In the end, there
are many other things you can do to gain supporters in your community.
However, Valve should be supporting the community more as well. Valve
was and should still be known for giving great support to community
servers. There have been many suggestions given to Valve that would make
both sides happy. However, it seems like Valve just wants to ignore
them. It has been over a year since the quick-play change was made and
Valve is still are saying "we are looking for a solution". To the TF2
developers, if you do not agree with any of our solutions, let us know
why and we will attempt to adjust them to your needs. I personally think
this would work great and make both sides happy:
http://i.imgur.com/tAmWXj6.png
If you do not feel that way, please communicate with us.
Finally, I have two more suggestions. One, for the MOTD, when the user
exits out of the MOTD screen, the sound is stopped (e.g. video ads sound
is stopped). This would make players less annoyed by ads if they can
just hit "continue" and skip the ad completely. Two, on the server
browser, there should be two tabs, one called community servers
(default), the next called Valve servers. It is self-explanatory on
which tab lists which servers. If that is too much, then just have the
check-box of "Show Valve servers" which is unchecked by default. I hope
these two suggestions can be addressed.
Thank you for reading.
On 7/4/2015 5:44 PM, Jethro Seabridge wrote:
You might want to check other forums/avenues of communication other
than the mailing list; I've seen quite a few people complain about the
valve server change.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Matthias "InstantMuffin" Kollek
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Endless waves of communities explaining how quickplay (and other
changes ofc) destroys communities, nothing happens.
Two people on the mailing list moan about valve servers being
excluded from the list, instantfix. GJ
On 04.07.2015 23:32, Kevin C wrote:
You have got to be kidding me.
http://i.imgur.com/tAmWXj6.png wink wink nudge nudge
On 7/4/2015 5:28 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
- Temporarily reverted Valve official quickplay and
matchmaking servers not being listed in the server browser
while we look into this further
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