When's the last time Valve has thought of us and included community enhancement features for the server communities out there? Everything i think they have done for us has been crippling.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected] > >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 <[email protected]> > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
