So I am going to make some points for other server owners, admins, and
players who are thinking about this.
First off this really isn't going to benefit most of you unless you fork
over the $5. Those servers get X2 points meaning that you would need
someone on your server to place twice as long to get roughly the same
points.
It is just starting so don't think this is going to be an instant boost
to your servers, rather this might do nothing for your servers at the
moment as most players haven't even heard of this and they need to be
signed up to make points. So in actuality this will help people whom pay
and harm people who don't. Lets say you tell your small and humble
community "hey guys go sign up here" they of course do as you are
offering free stuff, not really, but once they do they look and realize
why the hell am I playing on low beat small and humble community over
here when I could play on Big Fancy Community over here who has X2
points. Thus the servers who fork over $5 get a benefit leaving your
community dead. My only fix for this would be to sign up and not tell
anyone, which isn't great either as no one really wins at that point.
Too make it even more leaned towards Prem. players with 75% or more on a
Prem. server get a 3rd prize.
http://www.ds-ent.com/ is the "Sales-Marketing Company" that has only
one current system, Capture the Prize.
Capture The Prize is the one who really wins. Lets say they give out two
$50 prizes, that is $100 in total. Well, simply 20 Prem. servers will
pay for that. Ads, and anything else goes into their pockets. Meaning
more and more you lose they win. Yes once they add another $50 it will
be $50 more but it is covered by the 10 new Prem. Servers, so no loss to
them.
Idle Servers FTW! Yes, make an account and throw it on an idle server
with Capture the Prize and You win, not the server that actually has
players on it.... You can even do multiple accounts. :D
If not the above it wouldn't be too hard to make a script joining a
server, then going to the next server every 30 minutes making you look
alive when not.
Too many Supported games, this means that really not only are you
competing against tf2, but AA3, Arma2, BF3, .. [more] ...and... [more]
...and... [more].... Thus making it even less likely to win. You might
as well go buy a lottery ticket.
Valid by Valve? Yes this is a really serious question, what if Valve
states this is not acceptable practice, then your server goes down too?
More work you admins as you will now have to make sure that your server
is also properly talking to Capture the Prize.
Bad players here we come? Yes, I do think that you may get a sudden
flood of players on your server, and many could be well, horrid.
Sign up field, unsecured :O, this is horrid, most of the information
they are asking can be easily used to hack into an account and take it
over, let alone a hacker going in and destroying their database and
walking off with all that information. (unconfirmed, so we aren't saying
Capture the Prize is just a bunch of hackers.)
< 13 year olds won't be able to participate, well there goes half the
gamers.
1) Solutions they present "Every 3 hours if you are still playing, you
must also reactivate your server token (by doing the server activation
process again). if you do not, then the server will be deactivated and
you will not gain any more points (until you activate the server
again)."(http://support.capturetheprize.com/index.php?r=faq/view&id=1)
This seems great, but really you can build things to answer this as well.
Long story short, this helps Prem. communities, is prone to hackers /
cheaters, and really isn't that cheap.
##About me, I run (Gaming-Servers.net) So, I'm not an idiot, I run 18
Game servers and after looking into this, it might actually harm my
servers. :\
Forum post so you reference, post, point to, state is a lie, or
completely ignore.
https://www.town-assembly.com/index.php?p=/discussion/42/capture-the-prize-a-scam
On 10/16/2012 1:14 AM, PAL-18 wrote:
Hello Fellow Server Hosts,
I've been operating my own game servers for the past 7 years for my
clans and gaming communities and the same thing keeps happening at
random times; traffic dies. This can generally be attributed to
hundreds or even thousands of other servers popping up (TF2 popularity
after hats were added), server ip changing, hostname changing,
vacation season, etc. This can be murder for game servers and hosts
are left with a difficult decision. Keep hosting and try to build back
the player base (which can take a long time and even be impossible at
times) or just shut down their server. I came up with an solution to
this and i wanted to offer it to all the other server hosts.
On the CS:Go mailing list, someone mentioned a steam update
notification service for server operators and i figured if they were
allowed to post theirs, then this post shouldn't be a problem.
My solution is a contest that rewards players who play on specific
servers (eg. yours) by giving them a chance to win 2 prizes each
month. It's currently 2 prizes of $50 USD sent via paypal), but as
the player and server base grows, this will be increased as well as
the number of prizes.
Currently 32 multiplayer games (including all of Valve's titles except
DOTA) are supported as well as every single mod these games can run.
For example, all Arma 2 (DayZ, etc.), the whole Battlefield series,
most of the Call of Duty series, Minecraft, Killing Floor and much more.
You do not need to install any plugins on your server. You just need
to provide your Game Name/Mod Name, Server IP, Server Port and Query
Port (if applicable).
If you're interested in taking advantage of this service, then see
Server Operator page that provides further information at
http://www.capturetheprize.com/server-op.php
Thank you for your time.
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