The main reason you saw such a big drop in players is because Valve
decided to change the default lobby setting from "Best Available
Dedicated" to "Official Dedicated", so the majority of the players are
playing on Valve's official servers and only a minority of people
actually change that to Best Available.
On 07/30/2010 08:03 PM, tom nikitopoulos wrote:
Before the major update like maybe 2 months ago I was high on the horse. I
am small time (I run 10 boxes off of 5 ip's) I had a couple of decent
ranked stock l4d2 servers. I was thinking "oh yeah baby!!!!"- I was like a
little kid checking game-monitor.com every two days. Then after the update
monsoon (and maybe college kids leaving for summer) my decent ranked servers
went to crap.I thought I had done something wrong,but I wasnt sure. After
this I went on game-monitor.com and checked top ranked l4d2 servers and they
were all Valve servers. I was like wth? I realize that sv_region may have
needed some fixin but I dunno.
Steven,
" but work with us here to help provide a quality service to your customers
please!"
Who are the customers here? I don't charge for my servers. I not really
prepared to do so.
Does anybody here pay Valve for the right to run gameservers for Valve? Or
the downloads of files and updates?
My point is this- there is no leverage for Valve or Activision to do
anything but the way they wanna do it
/off soapbox
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