Hello Andreas, as I understand, you are the owner of Saigns.de. I'm sorry but by making your original message you have already alienated a part of the community ( http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1w3z7e/saigns_owner_doesnt_like_the_quickplay_change_lol/). I'm sorry to notify you that your servers are widely regarded as very poor, and by opening your donation privileges website, we can see why is that the case: https://www.saigns.de/premium/. To mention some of the "privileges" that your donators get: +50 health on kill, +25 health on kill assist, +4 health regen, +30% increased jump height, etc etc.
It is my firm belief that due to servers like yours, we are currently in the situation where even the legitimate servers have to suffer. Your "balancing" of the vanilla game, only available to those who pay for it, has impacted the community to the point where Valve felt obliged to make changes like these. Granted, it's also Valve's fault that they didn't automatically disqualify your servers (as well as other servers who do things like that) from quickplay, and let the legitimate servers who provide completely vanilla and Valve intended experience to continue their lives like usual. I'd rather not continue this conversation here. I've provided my Steam account name, and I am easily reached by email, so if you wish, I'm prepared to take it there. -- Ivan 2014-01-25 <hlds-requ...@list.valvesoftware.com> > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:14:43 +0100 > From: "Andreas Grimm" <l...@gmx.net> > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" > <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Mandatory TF2 update released > Message-ID: <004501cf19e0$2d410bc0$87c32340$@net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, > > > > why are you directing your fingers against NighTeam or Saigns? > > > > To quote the Quickplay FAQ: > > https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2825-AFGJ-3513 > > > > Q: Are there any server side mods that will disqualify me from Quickplay > since some do not change sv_tags? > > A: No, we are not automatically disqualifying servers for server side > mods. If the mods results in a better or worse player experience, that will > be reflected in the back-end server score. > > > > Server side mods are officially allowed and these communties don't break > any rules from valve. > > There were x other groups which still hide server tags (fast respawn), > used fake clients or exploits to get more player traffic from quickplay. > > > > Maybe you should think about that, before you start to judge others > > >
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