I'm not stating that 'my community' is not donating, I'm merely stating what I know is and always has been a general fact for most communities. Thanks however for your comment.
On 17 June 2013 16:13, Liquid Source <liquid.sou...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Truly, if you're not getting donations you are in denial of the fact that > the community thinks your server sucks. Try changing things to the requests > of the community and not dictate the same things that have created the lack > of interest in donations. > > > ------------------------------ > From: ubyu....@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:55:58 +0100 > > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay > > Then again a good number of players don't even support the best > communities out there by donating, most players these days are under the > impression that running a server has no price tags attached. It's a case of > either the community's owner footing the cost, or closing their own > community's servers. The latter of course generally ends up with less > servers than there are today. Less servers eventually means little to no > game. Why else haven't more official servers been opened up? Because it's > not cheap (or free) and is most likely going to cause Valve to be running > at a loss in order to do so. So that leaves the final option, Pinion and > the like, an alternative solution to those who don't donate to a good > community in order to keep it alive for all to participate on. > > Hate Pinion and the like? Disable HTML MOTD's in your settings in-game and > leave and blacklist servers which use it. Finally look for and go on > official Valve servers. SPUF is generally a better place to have this sort > of discussion on really, imo. > > > On 17 June 2013 10:05, Saint K. <sai...@specialattack.net> wrote: > > A good community and it's servers are supported by it's donors, not by > highly intrusive advertisements. > > Saint K. > ________________________________________ > From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [ > hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] on behalf of Supreet Sahni [ > coachcrock...@gmail.com] > Sent: 17 June 2013 01:13 > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 MOTD and Quickplay > > Doctor, why don't you pay the $300-400 dedicated server bills and other > expenses that server owners have to pay to keep their community running. > > It's as simple as this, a server forces you to see ads, leave it and don't > come back. Why are you trying to be a Nazi government trying to control > what server owners want to do. > > Look Valve, we pay for these servers okay. Dedicated servers aren't cheap, > we need to make money to recovery costs. What you are basically doing is > stunting one community's growth. > > If you continue to create features that will just add more and more > restrictions for server owners, why don't you just become like one of the > game publishers that don't even let users host dedicated servers. > > Just take away our server powers and how about this Valve? Why don't you > just host all the servers for us and leave us the headache? How much extra > server dollars will that cost you Valve, and also how much manpower will > you need to maintain those 1000s of servers running plugins that people > LOVE! > > It's easy for you to just toss up Vanilla servers in there with no > configurations and setups but do realize the amount of hours and hardwork > server owners put in their community. We build it from ground up. How would > you like it Valve is "Example Gaming Regulation" told you, you can't push > certain updates and release a set group of weapons and items. > > The point is this - we pay full cost for our communities, so let us do > THINGS to cover for the cost. Otherwise, make srcds use less RAM and CPU so > we don't have to buy expensive servers. > > I speak on behalf of many community owners who are irritated by people > stirring up something every few weeks for no reason. Yeah I'm talking about > you Doctor. > > Your TF2 would be NOTHING if it wasn't for us hard working community > owners who provide great servers for your playerbase to play at. > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your > list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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