It's not solely ads which made Valve change Quickplay. Besides, advertising to Quickplay connecting clients is no longer possible so it's irrelevant if that is their sole motivation for this change.
In my opinion it's servers faking data such as connected players (e.g. servers which also give bots a ping and avatar to make them look real) and servers which don't run to Valve's vanilla expectations that have caused this. There are plenty of negative points to playing on a Valve server, most importantly no adminstration so players can do whatever they like pretty much. Truth of the matter is it's doubtful Valve will relent on their decision, especially as they seem to provide no input here :(. A persistent reminder of this topic may pay off in the end though I hope. I just wonder if halloween will be an issue as well, Quickplay prioritising players to join Valve run halloween servers instead of community run halloween servers. On 24 October 2014 10:53, Erik-jan Riemers <[email protected]> wrote: > They cannot run ads anymore, if they fake with bots it should not work > either. Either way they changed it so much that it should be "ok > experience" and then they removed community all together. If they wanted > more vanilla experience they should have worked more on removing those bad > servers. I don't run ads on our server, tried it once but didn't like it. > We don't rely on ads to make a living where as some people use ads purely > to make money. > > And yes even i DO like the quickplay button but i rather want to join an > active community server that obeys the rules rather then joining yet > another pub bash. > > 2014-10-24 11:41 GMT+02:00 Stefan `Sec` Zehl <[email protected]>: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 18:47 -0400, Alexander Corn wrote: > > > The Quickplay change was the single most harmful change in the history > of > > > the game. Gamers are notoriously lazy and entitled. They want their > game > > to > > > start *now*, before the loading screen even goes away. They're going to > > > take the path of least resistance when joining a game. That path is > > > Quickplay. > > > > I know this is going to be the unpopular opinion here, but I personally > > like that change. I can not count the number of times I just wanted to > > play now and got thrown onto pay-to-win, advertisement-full servers > > that required me to watch stuff for x seconds, or even wouldn't let me > > connect unless I enabled HTML motds, or bot-filled servers with noone > > else on them. > > > > All these annoyments are gone now. If I feel in the mood for a quick > > game, I get a quick game without any bullshit. > > > > So I for one do like that change. > > > > CU, > > Sec > > -- > > "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's > > troublesome." - Isaac Asimov > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
