To be honest, I doubt any of us are going to get responses. I myself as have others have tried to bring this to the community's attention via Reddit. While support has been there, it has been too weak to bring about any major action.
People who post about this on the new steam based forums for TF2 usually get shot down by certain players who love the change, merely because they worship Valve. My community is in limbo at the moment since we were never big enough to weather this storm. I am waiting for KF2 to change our fortunes. I'm quite sure hosting CS:GO would suffer the same fate and L4D never seemed popular enough or team/community based enough to actually garner enough new members. While I don't myself want to let this die, I feel we need a change of direction. It would be better to start some form of petition and deliver it to Valve rather than get upset over the mailing list. On 9 February 2015 at 18:38, Andreas Willinger <aw...@gmx.at> wrote: > So, we will let this thread die again? > > Great Valve, really great, you used to be a nice company. > > > > *Von:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto: > hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *Im Auftrag von *Tim Anderson > *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 05. Februar 2015 22:12 > *An:* hlds@list.valvesoftware.com; hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com > *Betreff:* [hlds] Rethinking the community quickplay ban > > > > To the TF2 team, > > > > It has now been over a year since the decision to essentially ban > community servers from quickplay by defaulting to official ones. Here are > some facts of what has happened since then. > > > > - Player gain dropped 4% from the year before. > > - UGC highlander teams dropped 17% > > - Highly reduced map variety from community servers. > > - Even top non-quickplay servers have drastically fewer players than in > 2013. > > > > You may have guaranteed new players a vanilla experience, but this is > ruining the experience for the rest. > > > > Maybe nothing is being done because you do not see enough complaints about > this from reddit or spuf. This is because the problem is obvious when > someone connects to a pay to win server while it is not as obvious when a > server is dying over the span of several months because official ones are > getting all the new players. > > > > Most of the people that I talked to even knew about this change so the > thought about complaining about it never crossed their minds. But just > because they never knew about it doesn't mean it wasn't a problem. > > > > I hope you realize that this change is doing more harm than good. It may > have stopped some complaints but this is hurting TF2 in the long run. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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