Someone's upset. Who's we? I hope you're not trying to imply that no one on the HLDS has done that because I can say with 100% confidence that many of you have after seeing it in action. Where do you think folks get the idea from? Hah.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Bottiger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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