I'm quite sure the game took in plenty more money back in the hayday than it does now, but only Valve knows that for sure. But look at CS:GO with the sprays, or TF2 with the merasmissions. They're just looking for any way they can get money from people now,.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:48 PM, William Kane <ttall...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Losing money by "throwing away community servers", regaining money through > different means with zero effort. > Doesn't take a genius, so, once again, wake up please. > > 2016-11-18 3:18 GMT+01:00 Tim Anderson <twjander...@gmail.com>: > >> Well if you read my 3rd paragraph, you would see that they are losing >> money by throwing away their community players. A large portion of >> these players are leaving for Overwatch instead of joining official >> servers now that the last few community servers are dying. >> >> You make it sound like communities don't add anything to their bottom >> line. I've seen far more whales on community servers than official >> ones, with dozens of unusuals in their backpack. And the total player >> count hasn't been this low for the past 3 years. So the TF2 team is >> also losing customers in some misguided belief that community servers >> are bad or that it will make them more money. >> >> If Valve was really all about money they would go pay2win. They seem >> to care about their reputation, except where it comes to community >> servers, I don't see how anyone would ever risk participating in >> Valve's ecosystem if they knew how they killed off community servers. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/
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