A fair suggestion - even better if you can create a simple page in your steam group explicitly for this purpose.
>If they enjoyed playing on your server will they not be adding it to their >favorites? Not if they can mash 'quickplay' again next time and get an identical experience on any number of other servers. -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 11/8/13, Jesse Oak <wazanato...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Received: Friday, November 8, 2013, 10:15 AM I think a fair compromise is if in place of the HTML motd players were shown the servers group page on the steam. This way they can see the servers rules and have an easy way to join the community. I don't understand how someone can argue that quickplay is driving people away from their servers when it is bringing them in and then asking them if they wish to add it to their favorites when they leave the server. If they enjoyed playing on your server will they not be adding it to their favorites? On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Bjorn Wielens <uniac...@yahoo.ca> wrote: If that was the case, we'd be swimming in players right now. The sad truth of it is many people just don't care, they click and close it. It's a rather vocal, but smaller portion of people that vehemently hate ads with a passion and DC/blacklist servers with MOTD ads. -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 11/8/13, Alexander Z <spacebur...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [hlds] An open letter to Valve about MOTDs To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> Received: Friday, November 8, 2013, 9:31 AM I'm not quite sure what the OP is rambling about, but if it is about removing html MOTDs from quickplay, here's the answer why. A majority of people, upon seeing advertising in the MOTD, will disconnect from the server. You might get some ad revenue, but you're not going to get any players. On 8 November 2013 01:11, James Haikin <jfrra...@gmail.com> wrote: What in the hell is Liquid Source talking about? This is a video game, not the presidency. Good lord. -James On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Weasel's Lair <wea...@weaselslair.com> wrote: IMH(f)O, variety is a big deal. Different server operators, with different tastes, results in different communities, to suit different players tastes. However, some players only like to play stock maps and deal with a pre-defined world-view of what is possible/expected in the behaviour game. QuickPlay helps those players/noobs/whatever find what they want. So, I definately see the value in QuickPlay. I just wish there was more of an equal footing between QuickPlay and non-QuickPlay in the interface. Maybe there should be two equal-size / equally-marketed buttons - "Find QuickPlay Game" and "Find Customized Game" or something like that. From a playing perspective, I think servers the enforce something that the player can not close (and have the audio stop when it closes) is a very bad thing. I think the MOTD changes aren't targeting advertising/donation schilling necessarily - so much as that "WTF? I can't close this shiz and start playing right now?" effect. On a side note, if you are paying $30 for a server that can only host a single TF2 dedicated server instance - you are paying too much! I am using a VPS provider and paying that much - but able to host multiple instances of TF2 (32-player), CS:S and several GoldSrc stufff. Contrary to what I expected, my VPS is working better than any normal "dedicated" I have ever rented. I also found that VPS's hosted on Virtuozzo or OpenVZ perform better than KVM ones (even with specific resources "dedicated" to the KVM machine) - again, the opposite of what I expected. _______________________________________________ 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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
