On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:36 AM, N-Gon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Welp, you guys heard it here first. > Let's call it a day and let ad-based servers like skial have complete > reign of the place. > Excuse me? We have *never* used text mode clients to seed our servers and couldn't care less if it patched. Please don't use us as an example for anything bad just because we have the most players left, which is hardly worth consideration given that it is less than 3% of tf2 population. On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:08 PM, E. Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Think about it - communities used to grow one or two servers at a time as > their membership grew. Now, the vast majority of "communities" (and I use > that word extremely loosely) only offer a handful of stock maps. Now I'm not saying that you are referring to us, but some of you here are probably thinking it. This is exactly how we grew. We added 1 server at a time mostly added due to player request, and if they die out we remove them. Every single server we have fills up every day. We do not rent servers so cheap that it doesn't matter if they are empty 90% of the time. We had custom gamemodes even before quickplay existed. All of these in stark contrast to the usual posterboys of ad-farms and pay2win-farms that were popular scapegoats before us before they bled out from the quickplay change. It is sad that after the quickplay change killed off most of the real exploiters, disgruntled server owners just started to assume we are the same. If you want to blame someone for the declining state of your server, it should probably be the people who defaulted quickplay to official servers, not us.
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