Seriously, this. If your servers can't retain people, then that's a problem with the strength of your community, not with the updates to quickplay.
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Rovanion Luckey <rovanion.luc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there an email list on which I can get the update announcements and > without the constant whining? > > 2015-08-04 12:54 GMT+02:00 Rowedahelicon <theoneando...@rowedahelicon.com> > : > >> Can I get a confirmation my emails go in? >> >> Anyway, wait until Dota II stops being popular, that's where the money is >> and that's where the focus is! Thing is is that the TF2 community as a >> whole doesn't seem to understand why TF2 is as bad as it is, far too many >> people think that everyone Valve does is for the best and that they're >> never wrong ever. The response may be more effective if a much larger >> portion of the community raise their voice about it. >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Paul <ubyu....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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