Because it's becoming apparent that Valve isn't that concerned about the "communities".....wonder if there were a large number of server owners who decided to boycott for a weekend or week and take down all their servers. I know, I know .... it would "punish" the general player and most server owners wouldn't want to shoot themselves in the foot.....but there has to be *something* the general server owner community, who are a major backbone of the tf2 servers out there, can do (or not do) to send a message to valve that they are slowly killing the communities that help bring in the revenue they so enjoy (hats, etc). I simply don't understand why for the sake a few, the masses are handcuffed..... /end rant
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Yun Huang Yong <gumby_li...@mooh.org>wrote: > +1 > > I don't understand what seems to be a general stance of "we have a few bad > actors therefore we should change feature X to the detriment of everyone". > > First it was the MOTD. > Now it's Quickplay. > > Why is the approach not to identify & specifically punish bad actors? > > > On 24/01/2014 12:24 PM, Chris Oryschak wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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
