On 07/11/2013 01:14, Bjorn Wielens wrote:
seven HUNDRED valve servers? I'm sorry, but I'm with those kinds of numbers I'm going to
re-raise my earlier point about valve actively "skimming" the bulk of the
quickplay traffic for themselves and leaving barely anything for communities.
Anything for communities to do what?
Seems fairly evident that if Valve servers are full then people either
clicked quickplay or joined their servers directly.
In neither case were the people specifically interested in joining your
server or any other community one.
Bearing in mind too that Valve run servers around the world. So there
won't be "hundreds" of them competing with your local server.
That said I think it was a pity they switched most (all?) of their
servers to Halloween maps because (a) it (mostly) sucks and (b) it doesn't
leave any Valve servers for people that don't want to play Halloween
maps. But that's the only reason.
Equally though, you could say they've helped communities fill servers
that serve the other maps but you didn't.
I've said it before you cannot make your server special or interesting
unless you DON'T want quickplay traffic.
(I would argue further that you cannot make it special or interesting at
all - but that is debatable perhaps whereas
for quickplay it's pretty much self-evident given the rules for adding a
server to the pool)
There's no point otherwise. Quickplay means "I want the game Valve wrote
without any crap" - and, by definition, this makes all
the servers the same. If they aren't the same, as sometimes happens,
then quickplay sucks.
And really, as I've said before, there's no point competing for this
pool of players. You're not going to gain anything
doing that. If there are more servers than people then you may as well
put your time and effort into something else.
If you have an existing community then you can run whatever you like.
Valve won't take your players.
But it makes no sense to call yourself a community if you don't have a
full server of regular players that
actually want to play on your server. Nor if your full server is just
because quickplay has sent you a bunch of people.
24 quickplay players is not a community.
--
Dan
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