On 16/08/2012 01:37, Frank wrote:
I disagree with this - sorry but I do.
You should be able to use a ticket on our servers that WE run and get the
same thing, there should be no difference between our servers and Valve
servers in the way they are setup but you can bet your bottom dollar that
our servers will be managed better from the slackers, hackers and so on that
will flood this mode in the days to come.
Yeah, there *should* be no differences. Valve aren't stupid though, they
know there would be :)
Be honest with yourself - I'm betting you don't run a single vanilla
server now. Not one. Am I wrong? So how can you claim there should be no
difference when there clearly already is? :)
The game isn't even out and you wanted to change the number of players :)
Clearly you think some of your ideas for how the game should work or be
configured are better than Valves, and that's fine - the tools exist for
you to be creative, but those feelings obviously conflict with your
claimed premise that there would be no differences between your servers
and valves.
Even if your servers aren't different to be dishonest in any way it's
self-evident that the recent past of 3rd party server owners has had a
large %age that *should be no different * but clearly were. And that
were different in a dishonest and negative way. To the point where Valve
had to mess around trying to stymie their shenanigans.
It'd be great to think that one day Valve could let some 3rd party
servers run this mode because I'm sure a %age of people here would run a
mann up server without trying to cheat the system. They let 3rd party
servers get the Halloween mode drops (with certain caveats) - so unless
they learnt from that it wasn't such a good idea after all, perhaps they
just think this mode's changes are bigger and they want to manage things
for a while first.
Whatever, it seems moot, plenty are saying they don't want to pay or
can't afford to - they'll want MvM servers to play on too. Although folk
in general (at least the group intelligent enough to read and understand
the FAQ) seem happy with the way Valve have made losing tickets reusable
over and over. That makes me think they'll sell plenty of tickets.
But you can't really blame them for caution.
As for cheaters (which is what I presume the group you confuse as
'hackers'?) IME there are no more cheats on Valve's servers than on any
others - perhaps less.
--
Dan
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