Agreed. Why don't you punish the communities/servers that are abusing this. Every step a good community takes moves forward to attempt to retain the player gets flushed down the drain with these changes. Quickplay is ultimately useless for any community, unless you are valve.
I currently have 235 players on my servers right now, of all of those only 23 players are from quickplay. Seriously running servers for this game is slowly becoming unenjoyable as a hobby. One day they will hopefully realize that the communities they are truly hurting are the ones that helped make them $139mil last year. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Doctor McKay <mc...@doctormckay.com> wrote: > Why? > > Adding a "Valve servers only" checkbox (that's checked by default) is going > to hurt enough (and only those communities that are playing by the rules; > cheating communities will just steal *more* traffic from the legitimate > communities). > > It's now all but impossible to try to retain a client who joined via > Quickplay (and those are the clients we *need* to retain). We can't show > them our website. We can't even allow them to use a menu to jump to another > one of our servers anymore. > > Please think about what you're doing. If your intention is to harm the good > communities, you're doing a fine job at it. > > Dr. McKay > www.doctormckay.com > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
