How is your opinion regarding ads relevant to the problem? If you have 350$ monthly to spend on servers for other people to enjoy, then you’re lucky!
Players did not decide to disappear from one day to the other just because of ads! Here is a screenshot that shows pretty well what I am saying: http://scrn.storni.info/2015-10-23_18-14-59.png Br, Niko From: csgo_servers-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:csgo_servers-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Gordon Reynolds Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 17:10 To: csgo_servers@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [Csgo_servers] Extreme Falling Trend "I in fact have set up a flag for donors and admins (such as myself) to be immune to advertisements." Oh man there is probably a super clear reason why people don't want to be on your servers. On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:21 PM Niko <mail...@go-free.info <mailto:mail...@go-free.info> > wrote: Mr. Loveless is somehow correct. I indeed run motdgd on my servers, but that's for a legit reason, I have to pay more than 350$ monthly in server fees and I'm just a simple student. I would never have enough money to even pay one server without the aid of the ads. Besides, I host gameservers since 2008 and run ads since 2011/2012 (I think i was one of the first to begin with this technique) and players have always learned to accept the fact that for such a great service they had to either donate to support or accept the adverts. Now, regarding my current situation on CSGO, i do not run adverts every 5 minutes that scare people away, I care about my players and my community and always tried to match their needs. This change of traffic has happened during this past week, and i really doubt that all of a sudden every player decided my community is pure evil and must be avoided. So I wonder why and that's why I'm here seeking help from people that like me, enjoy serving csgo with some different content. PS: I'm well aware of that, i do not run these kind of plugins on my servers and enforce such rule on my clients too. Best regards, Niko On 10/22/2015 23:22, Ian wrote: If Mr. Loveless is correct, the sort of adverts you are/were running do scare away people very easily, and can be very detrimental to your server traffic. People get bothered by adverts very easily, and it's incredibly simple for them to see your server name and say "No, I dont want to go back on that server, it makes my ears bleed from adverts every 5 minutes". That being said, there might be a legitimate issue with your traffic, but the adverts may impact your server traffic more than you may think. P.S. You should remove the knife and ws plugins before all your servers get blacklisted for 3 months. _______________________________________________ Csgo_servers mailing list Csgo_servers@list.valvesoftware.com <mailto:Csgo_servers@list.valvesoftware.com> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/csgo_servers --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com
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