@Matthias, oh yes, Ads are a pain the ass to some, but some people have either found ways around it or have learned to ignore it. Something like that though in the old times, a player could just find it and go oh wow this sucks, and will leave to join a new server. See that's another reason here why I defend this topic as it isn't just a Valve thing, this bleeds into gaming in general. Community driven games / servers have been a staple in multiplayer games for a long time.
If you didn't like what you were offered, you would go elsewhere, then found something you liked and would stay. There are a lot of reasons to stay in a community, and one thing I enjoy as a runner of one is how often people say they love the atmosphere / friends they've made, that sort of thing. Bearing that in mind, that is a reason why people would side with Valve servers, you get a guarenteeded experience, however the trade off is that Valve servers are baron, stock, easily hack able, no quality control on players, so on and so forth. @ E.Olsen unless if I'm mistaken here I think the idea was that a non-op would be a moderator to any wacky discussions / ideas we had? So it's not just a bias circle jerk sort of thing.
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