Yes lets think about the end user that has been enjoying community
servers and the care we take of our players, keeping cheaters out and
other troublemaking trollers and especially offering a place to play on.
For over 6 years our communities have helped TF2 grow. Only after game
went Free to Play, Valve added their own servers. Do you even know where
the players played before that? On our community servers only. It was
decided that when game goes free to play, they will add extra servers to
get new players to get on and get familiar to the game. Thats what they
have been doing all along and they did thought the end user. Now grip
tightens for unknown reason.
The existing players will keep playing on our servers but due to severe
lack of new ones ever finding our servers, it will get our servers
emptied. The decision that was made is absolutely horrible and one
sided. Yes, it's their game and they can do whatever they want but
simply forgetting every server owner contribution to this game in the
past, especially the ones that have been here since TF2 release and
before, it's really sad to see it was made without atleast warning us
ahead of the change and telling why it has to be like this.
-ics
Jon Just kirjoitti:
Until valve can get rid of premium servers, ad farms, and server
chains that monopolize the quick play system, I think that this change
should stay. I feel bad that community servers have to be punished as
well, but you need to think of the average tf2 player before the
server owner.
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On Jan 25, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Supreet <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
I think it is very wrong to accuse certain communities and players
who may or may not be exploiting the quick play system.
Saigns or NightTeam is famous because there's a considerable amount
of population that loves the customized gameplay. On the other hand,
Skial I believe runs the best vanilla servers along with Lotus being
one of the first largest TF2 communities who is still alive.
You have to be understanding and give every community member credit
and a pat on the back for their hard work. If it weren't for them, a
lot of the TF2 population would be undecided in terms of their server
preference.
The problem at hand:
New players are uneducated or lazy about unchecking a box that might
be irrelevant to them.
We cannot do much to fix it. By bickering and repeatedly complaining,
Valve will not be interested in reading our comments. Let's keep our
thoughts and ideas organized in a thread and make a kind request for
Valve to tweak the change they have made.
Someone mentioned an excellent point here about being able to create
a new quick play account to quickly regain traffic. That is correct.
That is also however part of the problem. A server should be able to
build a score and reputation upon how long its been up. New servers
should not get the same advantage as the servers that have been up
for months or years.
It is not the community's fault that Valve is making this change. The
problem is the fact that Valve doesn't care much or supports about
user made communities. If they do not want to aid us, we will have to
help ourselves. There are a lot of communities who relied on quick
play and quick play ALONE to fill their servers. That whole idea is
wrong and biased towards communities that work really hard to
organize giveaways, contests, make their own plugins to enhance the
user experience.
Valve - we understand you would like to keep a controlled population
of TF2 going to your vanilla no plugins, no ad mins servers. Either
you should remove all non valve servers from quick play and give all
server ops the fair advantage or not pool us in the same system as
your official servers and get rid of them or completely remove them
from quick play.
The idea of Valve servers are nice, but they seem to be the culprit
of all problems.
I kindly request a Valve employee to please provide some feedback and
let us know if you are thinking about making any changes or keeping
it then way it is.
If you don't plan on making any changes, then please: we kindly
request you to add another check box saying "Community Servers" and
keep it unchecked by default - that shall make you happy and give
users some insight and choice as well.
Thanks for reading.
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