Since Valve appears to have more or less confirmed their lack of support towards communities these days I haven't bothered spending a single penny/cent on games such as Team Fortress 2, especially not on these contracts. I also asked a good number of my friends to see what their opinion was and quite a number of them aren't either apparently. It's so disappointing to see that a company who originally developed great games has gone from being open and fair to being closed and apparently mostly interested in ways to pull more cash from their games. There are so many good ideas here which are being ignored, as workarounds. If things ever changed for the better then I, along with quite a number of other people I'm sure, would be motivated in buying items on games such as Team Fortress 2 again. Come on Valve, open your mind to us - the community which made Team Fortress 2 towards what it is today (prior to it beginning to lose support for the community servers)! Somewhere you must surely care about them still?
On 4 August 2015 at 04:40, Rowedahelicon <theoneando...@rowedahelicon.com> wrote: > Oh they know the setup is unfair, they said so from the very start a few > years ago, and last year they promised they'd give us a middle ground. They > don't care you see, Valve employees have said how money drives direction at > Valve now, and Valve servers mean less modding means more money. > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Robert Paulson <thepauls...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The TF2 team, in a misguided effort to silence all complaints, ended up >> making poor decisions that are killing community servers. >> >> The truth is, whatever you do, someone is going to complain about >> something. You blocked ads from being displayed for people connecting >> through quickplay? One down. But now there are people complaining about >> contracts and saying they don't want CS:GO garbage in their game. Are you >> going to remove that too? Of course not. >> >> So far you have been unfairly accommodating to the type of players that >> can't even be bothered to type "valve" in the server browser at the expense >> of everyone else. What happened to letting people decide for themselves? If >> people do not like a server for having reserved slots or ads, then they >> will not return, and the server will have fewer players. >> >> The fact that you hid official servers from the browser, at least for a >> couple days, proves that you know the current setup to be unfair and not >> the best experience for the players who don't like official servers. Please >> don't wait another year to fix this. >> >> If people are actually use the browser to find official servers, then I >> would suggest having a toggle for that on the browser, defaulted to off. >> However to see any real change, the official server toggle on the quickplay >> GUI should automatically be turned off after a few hours. That would still >> guarantee that new players know what a vanilla experience is. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > > -- > *Matthew (Rowedahelicon) Robinson* > Web Designer / Artist / Writer > Website - http://www.rowedahelicon.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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