For correctness I would like to say that there are few servers that will
force you to activate motds in order to be able to join a team.
On 05.09.2015 06:22, Robert Paulson wrote:
Nothing to do with competition. I've actually never paid much
attention to what other server operators are doing as I'm more
concerned what the players are saying...and if you think that ads
haven't given community servers a bad reputation among the general
player population (deserved or not), then you haven't been paying
attention.
They were abused by some groups that spammed them on every death and
forced them open for 30 seconds. Now they aren't an issue anymore and
it was already literally impossible for them to be an issue months
before Valve blocked quickplay. Ads on TF2 existed quietly for at
least 2 years before the new people started abusing them.
Why do you keep harping on something that isn't an issue anymore?
Should Valve blacklist pay2win servers just for all the players they
drove away from TF2 prior to quickplay? No.
Yeah, this pretty much goes back to the OT of this conversion -
the fact that the default quickplay setting negatively affects ALL
community servers, regardless of how "great" they may be.
No it really doesn't. You said this would be a positive change even if
Valve doesn't bring community servers back to quickplay. Which means
you want the ad supported servers not on quickplay to die so you can
get their players. If your servers being ad-free was such a benefit,
then you would have all the players you wanted from the non-quickplay
pool. And then your suggestion would be useless.
I think you might have a bit of tunnel vision when it comes to
these Saigns folks. I've never really thought along the lines of
"if this community goes away, then mine will do better."
Maybe because they are filling over a 100 TF2 servers a day while
everyone else is shutting down servers? And they are doing so by
tricking people into thinking they have more people playing than they
actually do? And the fact that they do so without ANY ADS which
single-handedly ruins your theory that people abuse the server list
only because of ads.
Valve has already blocked quickplay players from seeing the MOTD, and
no one here is asking to have that reversed. Your wild goose chase
into completely destroying the MOTD is unhelpful to put it mildly.
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