On 02/10/2014 14:15, Frank wrote:
Valve uses the community to make and create all these nice items they are
putting out lately...letting everyone else do their work for them
That was an easy thing for them to do though. Rubbish items are easy to
dismiss and you
pay the ones that get picked a percentage of money they actually earn in
the store.
So it's a bit disingenuous to suggest Valve "lets everyone else do their
work" - they pay them
pretty reasonably for it.
You can't do that with servers. Firstly because it requires few skills
to run one.
There's no barrier to entry. There's barely even a financial barrier
these days.
If Valve rewarded server owners then people would all crawl out of the
woodwork
to run servers to get that reward. Who then decides who gets it? The
people that connect to the server? Valve? Some arbitrary scoring system?
We've all seen what you do when you decide you need to fight over the
same few
players, and it's not pretty and it does nothing other than hurt the
game for players.
The other side, as I've said many times, there really is nothing to
distinguish
a good server that an admin can do. You can create a bad server and you
can say
what a bad server is like - high ping etc etc etc, but there's nothing
you can do to the config files
that will make your server any better than anyone else's.
If there's one thing valve have proven it's that you can run thousands
of vanilla servers
and fill them and they work fine. If anything with fewer problems than
many communities have.
Besides, you're not a community of nice people. Why would anyone want
to help you do anything? If you can make money from TF2 servers today you're
on a cushy number. You can't expect Valve to implement some get-rich-quick
scheme for you.
Even if you say "Just want players, not a reward" the argument remains
the same.
Why should you get players and not valve or someone else? What did you
do that was so special?
We didn't get a response from Valve on that statue of you that TF2 staff
could bow humbly before
it on their way into work to remind themselves of who put them where
they are today.
Maybe if you offered to pay for it? No wait, get the French to make one,
they'll put it somewhere everyone can see it. That's worked for statues
in the past :D
--
Dan
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