The cvar was actually added at the request of myself and several others. I took the liberty to make a chart showing exactly what percent of my players come from Quickplay. The result was disappointingly high: http://i.imgur.com/91xNnU1.png
I don't expect any more than 20% of Quickplay users to uncheck the "Official servers only" box. That means that I have lost around 40% of my traffic. My community is relatively popular, too. Smaller communities or communities that are just starting up will lose a lot more traffic than I will. Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Robert Paulson <[email protected]>wrote: > It's quite obvious really. Valve only makes features to benefit themselves > or players, and cl_connectmethod was at face value did not do either one. > > They don't care about server owners having this knowledge unless it > benefits them and didn't even bother to protect the convar from spoofing by > a using 1 convar flag. > > Its main purpose was to stop server owners from complaining about all the > restrictions placed on quickplay on the flawed assumption that quickplay is > a tiny and unimportant part of your player base. > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Doctor McKay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > While I agree with what you are saying, what does cl_connectmethod have > to > > do with any of this? > > On Jan 23, 2014 9:12 PM, "Robert Paulson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > First they came for the custom attachments, and I did not speak out. > > > Because I did not use it. > > > Then they came for fast respawn, and I did not speak out. Because I did > > not > > > use it. > > > Then they came for increased slots, and I did not speak out. Because I > > did > > > not use it. > > > Then they came for the MOTD, and I did not speak out. Because it would > > hurt > > > others more than me. > > > Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. > > > > > > This is a repeat of the "Custom Tabs" fiasco. Except Valve probably > won't > > > remove it this time because they can wave the evidence that a minority > of > > > players use quickplay, despite the fact that quickplay has a monopoly > on > > > new players and without them your server is dead. Your current players > > > won't play TF2 forever. > > > > > > I saw this coming a mile away when Valve released the cl_connectmethod > > > convar. As I have said time and time again, Valve has obligations to > > server > > > owners as well as players. We, or at least I, bought TF2 expecting not > > to > > > have our hosting abilities crippled so much. > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 5:11 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
