Disabling the HTML MOTD on Quickplay clients is already done. On 5 February 2015 at 21:26, Gordon Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe the change is going to stay in place because TF2 is just not a > high priority any longer. By ensuring the vast majority of players end up > on Valve servers they don't have to worry about abusive servers mucking up > the experience (of getting people into the game and hooked into the > Mannconomy ASAP) with weird MOTDs, "Premium Plugins", etc. > > However: there must be some better options than what currently exists now > (disabling MOTDs and stuff is a start, sucky, but it's something), but I'm > not sure Valve has any real financial motivation to care.They don't make > money off Community server, UGC highlander teams, or the number of maps > being played. From an economic perspective I don't think TF2 as a whole > would experience a drastic paradigm shift if ALL community servers were > suddenly shut off. > > I think it might be the intention all along to slowly ween the TF2 > community off the importance of community-ran servers, and that's tragic. > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Tim Anderson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > To the TF2 team, > > > > It has now been over a year since the decision to essentially ban > community > > servers from quickplay by defaulting to official ones. Here are some > facts > > of what has happened since then. > > > > - Player gain dropped 4% from the year before. > > - UGC highlander teams dropped 17% > > - Highly reduced map variety from community servers. > > - Even top non-quickplay servers have drastically fewer players than in > > 2013. > > > > You may have guaranteed new players a vanilla experience, but this is > > ruining the experience for the rest. > > > > Maybe nothing is being done because you do not see enough complaints > about > > this from reddit or spuf. This is because the problem is obvious when > > someone connects to a pay to win server while it is not as obvious when a > > server is dying over the span of several months because official ones are > > getting all the new players. > > > > Most of the people that I talked to even knew about this change so the > > thought about complaining about it never crossed their minds. But just > > because they never knew about it doesn't mean it wasn't a problem. > > > > I hope you realize that this change is doing more harm than good. It may > > have stopped some complaints but this is hurting TF2 in the long run. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
