If people cannot be trusted to run a server for a free game without blasting users with ads then I hardly doubt they will play nice and put the proper tags in place informing people that they are about to blast you with ads.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Jake Forrester <therannmann2...@gmail.com>wrote: > Why not just require servers that run advertisements to add an "ads" > tag, then add two checkboxes to quickplay: > > 1) Disable servers with ads > 2) Change maxplayers to 32 > > Much like those who were running fake clients, penalize those who are > attempting to hide their ad-based server tags by removing them from > quickplay. This method would also allow for 32 player servers to > effectively compete in the quickplay market (another argument, I know). > > This change hardly affected our servers due to most the benefits users > play with via the MOTD are for donors only, which quickplayers wont have > access to anyway. However, this does mean that I will personally never > click the quickplay button again, due to potential lost user experience > with various mods (radio is a big one). Not that one user means > anything to Valve though. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- - Gordon Reynolds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
