You seemed to have missed the point Matthias, I have genuine difficulty that an individual such as yourself would be so truly bothered by a short video in the MOTD played when you first join a server. Now don’t get me wrong, I do agree there are some mildly agitating ways to implement adverts and these ways shouldn’t be allowed. I personally would take exception to A) Having to wait a noticeable period of time before joining a team. B) Being unable to stop the advert. C) Being penalised for having HTML MOTDs disabled D) Having adverts played after I joined a team for the first time. (Ergo, on death, round win, timer etc.)
However, I would argue that those evils are a secondary problem with server providers implementing adverts in a nefarious way as opposed to existence of adverts themselves. Whilst these implementations may coincide with the existence of adverts on some servers, I’m skeptical about the insinuation that all server operators implement adverts in these ways as I know many do not. And I would further argue that banishing video MOTDs is not part of the union of getting servers back into the default Quickplay pool as for again, the current status quo is such that HTML adverts are not an issue in terms of Quickplay and Valve coded a solution which prevents the MOTD being reopened by a server for Quickplay connects. If you wish to change that, perhaps you could start your own discussion, instead of flagrantly derailing this discussion about the default Quickplay pools into your own personal vendetta against advertising. I for one do not intend to continue discussing side issues such as this in the given context of getting servers back into the default Quickplay pool and would implore you to do the same. Thanks. On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Matthias "InstantMuffin" Kollek < proph...@sticed.org> wrote: > Well, ads are part of the union, if you like it or not. Not saying those > people can go to hell (right now), but transparency is why quickplay exists > and lack of transparency is why community gameplay is excluded. I've heard > a lot of people saying I can go screw myself because the players can choose > if they want to join their server and consume ads or not. (On this very > list) Well, let them. > But yes, current quickplay restrictions are also about popups and motd > abusing as you can read in the article. So yeah, if your motd would be so > loud it would physically hurt my ears, get it fixed. lol (Or these caffeine > ads with the shock moments, but on roids) >
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