I can't actually believe people are still defending this decision.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Mike jons <[email protected]> wrote: > I completely agree Dan. I am just a small community with a couple servers, > but the population went straight down the drain after this patch. They > would normally be full this time of night. My servers are vanilla and as > plain as they almost get besides having sourcemod for admin on there. No > extra modifications or any of that. Yet, Valve doesn't realize that this > will kill off a bunch of the smaller guys because of the lack of players > now. > > > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 21:34:11 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Prevent game servers from redirecting players > to alternate servers when players connect through quickplay > > > > Dan, > > > > That's only ~1/2 my player slots filled when it's normally near full > > capacity thanks to quickplay filling in the gaps. I'm a community that > has > > been around for a long time and couldn't imagine anyone starting out to > try > > to build themselves now. > > > > These numbers are after an update release that (everyone knows) provides > a > > much larger influx of players on your server for that day. > > > > At least 5 yrs ago when we all started running servers there was no > > quickplay that instantly stole players; it was fair game for everyone - > as > > they all used the gamebrowser to find the server of choice. Now QP takes > > in probably close to 50%+ of the player traffic that is now 99% going to > > Valve's servers. > > > > This is crippling for everyone. As Robert has said, i have never spoken > out > > on all the previous changes but this was the last kick at the cat and > feel > > i need to voice my concerns. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:09 PM, dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 24/01/2014 01:24, Chris Oryschak wrote: > > > > > >> I currently have 235 players on my servers right now, of all of those > only > > >> 23 players are from quickplay. > > >> > > > > > > What difference will this change make to you then? > > > > > > -- > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
