In my experience, 19% of people who join via Quickplay come back. That's not an insignificant number.
Dr. McKay www.doctormckay.com On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Gordon Reynolds < [email protected]> wrote: > If your players were only in your servers because of quickplay, they > probably do not care one iota about your Server (the entity that is the > collection of your hardware, admins, regulars, plugins, etc), you were just > some hallway that connected them from "not playing TF2" to "playing TF2". > > When their match is done and over, they hit disconnect, never add you to > favorites, and may never show back up again. You could see this as "Valve > stealing your quickplay traffic" or you could see this as "Valve rounding > up the people who mash PLAYNOW and have no interest in dedicated servers, > or server communities". > > It's a changing demographic - people just want to play videogames, not > really sign up for a whole 'favorite server loyalty program'. > > And who cares if our servers "die out"? What are we out? Ego? > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Doctor McKay <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > For lack of a better word, this is the last stand of community servers. > > > > The smaller communities that depend on Quickplay to gain popularity will > > die out. We'll be left with nothing but the already-large-and-established > > server chains, like Lotus, Skial, Saigns, and NighTeam. > > > > > > Dr. McKay > > www.doctormckay.com > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Gordon Reynolds < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure this is that big of a deal. > > > > > > I've yet to see a single sane suggestion on how they police bad servers > > > other than "have people report them", which sounds like a bad idea for > > many > > > hopefully obvious reasons. > > > > > > These are just video game servers; you aren't making money off them, if > > > they sit empty you aren't losing money off them either [more than the > > cost > > > of running the server, which you're already doing]. And if you are > > (making > > > or losing money), then I would say Valve wants to put those kind of > > servers > > > out, as they generally fart up the experience with donation requests, > or > > > donor perks, annoying MOTDs, sound packs, or whatever else you crazy > > > SourceMod kiddies do nowadays. > > > > > > People here are acting as if this some last stand situation. > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Game-Over <[email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > We've spoken before via Email and as an honest server operator I have > > > > followed your directions via email to the letter. > > > > > > > > So, Fletcher, please justify this ludicrous move you have now made to > > > > Quickplay, after all of the support that we (us) genuine server > owners > > > have > > > > given you in the past years. > > > > > > > > You chose this route rather than actually dealing with corrupt server > > > > owners themselves, which we (on this mailing list) have asked you to > do > > > on > > > > multiple occasions. > > > > > > > > Looking forward to your reply sir. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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
