Hello, I think it is very wrong to accuse certain communities and players who may or may not be exploiting the quick play system.
Saigns or NightTeam is famous because there's a considerable amount of population that loves the customized gameplay. On the other hand, Skial I believe runs the best vanilla servers along with Lotus being one of the first largest TF2 communities who is still alive. You have to be understanding and give every community member credit and a pat on the back for their hard work. If it weren't for them, a lot of the TF2 population would be undecided in terms of their server preference. The problem at hand: New players are uneducated or lazy about unchecking a box that might be irrelevant to them. We cannot do much to fix it. By bickering and repeatedly complaining, Valve will not be interested in reading our comments. Let's keep our thoughts and ideas organized in a thread and make a kind request for Valve to tweak the change they have made. Someone mentioned an excellent point here about being able to create a new quick play account to quickly regain traffic. That is correct. That is also however part of the problem. A server should be able to build a score and reputation upon how long its been up. New servers should not get the same advantage as the servers that have been up for months or years. It is not the community's fault that Valve is making this change. The problem is the fact that Valve doesn't care much or supports about user made communities. If they do not want to aid us, we will have to help ourselves. There are a lot of communities who relied on quick play and quick play ALONE to fill their servers. That whole idea is wrong and biased towards communities that work really hard to organize giveaways, contests, make their own plugins to enhance the user experience. Valve - we understand you would like to keep a controlled population of TF2 going to your vanilla no plugins, no ad mins servers. Either you should remove all non valve servers from quick play and give all server ops the fair advantage or not pool us in the same system as your official servers and get rid of them or completely remove them from quick play. The idea of Valve servers are nice, but they seem to be the culprit of all problems. I kindly request a Valve employee to please provide some feedback and let us know if you are thinking about making any changes or keeping it then way it is. If you don't plan on making any changes, then please: we kindly request you to add another check box saying "Community Servers" and keep it unchecked by default - that shall make you happy and give users some insight and choice as well. Thanks for reading.
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