Re: [hlds] Quickplay Community Servers - 6 Months in.

2014-07-09 Thread Robert Paulson
Dear TF2 team, Community servers were provably better than official ones. Before the change, there wasn't a single official server in the gametracker top 200. No one uses quickpick. As a fix for the nuclear option it has failed. This move is something that would have been expected from EA. You

Re: [hlds] Quickplay Community Servers - 6 Months in.

2014-07-08 Thread Emil Larsson
All I heard is that they are eventually intending on moving from the old TF2 specific quickplay system to the Steam account system that they added five months ago, so if they change anything with the quickplay service it would be together with that move. But since they made the controversial

Re: [hlds] Quickplay Community Servers - 6 Months in.

2014-07-08 Thread Alexander Corn
The START PLAYING button is much larger and more prominent than the SERVERS button, so it encourages new players to click it first. Those players may never know that there are servers besides Valve servers. They'll end up playing with a different set of mediocre-to-bad players, with the occasional

[hlds] Quickplay Community Servers - 6 Months in.

2014-07-07 Thread Jason Tango
Dear TF2 Team, We are approaching the 6 month mark to what we had been told would be a temporary situation (i.e. the removal of community servers from Quickplay by default). To my knowledge - unless I missed something somewhere - there has not been any communication in those six months from the

Re: [hlds] Quickplay Community Servers - 6 Months in.

2014-07-07 Thread Phillip Vector
but again, if that will no longer be possible, it would simply be courteous to let us know so that we can let our community know we have to shut them down for good. Shut them down. If they aren't able to get traffic from fans to stay open, then go ahead and shut them down. They won't be missed