It's true! Valve does love us! :D Erik Johnson wrote: > First off, thanks to everyone for running servers for the demo. We knew going > into the release that we were going to need to figure out some ways to make > it worth it for server administrators, and now we have a ton of feedback to > work with. > > Right now we're looking at ways that server administrators can both build a > community around their game server (by subscribing to matchmaking) as well as > service their group of "regulars" that play on their server. Hooking game > servers into Steam Community is going to be our first step, and we're working > on that now. > > There is a key difference between Left 4 Dead and games like Counter-Strike > and Team Fortress in terms of matchmaking that we wanted to solve, and didn't > think the server browser could accomplish. In CS and TF2, you can have 2 or 3 > players leave in the middle of a game, have their slots filled by new people, > and everyone else's experience doesn't completely suffer. When a player or > two leaves Left 4 Dead the game suffers quite a bit, and we were worried that > the server browser model wasn't the right one for this game. In hindsight, > there are a number of cases where the server browser does a better job than > the new matchmaking system does, so it is highly likely that we'll be adding > it back in soon. It isn't trivially easy to turn back on, but there is > overlap between it and the Steam Community work we'd like to do. > > Right now we're working toward getting that release out within a week or so. > > There are a number of Valve employees reading all of the posts on this list, > and while we can't reply to every question that comes across, the discussions > here are ones we reference commonly when talking about what to do next > internally. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 3600 (20081110) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > >
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