This really isn't similar to the competitive scene at all. When TF2 was released, *absolutely nobody *bought the game expecting Valve to prop up the competitive scene like they are doing with Dota2. People who wanted to host their own competitive leagues were free to do so with 0 interference (unlike community servers) from Valve , and Valve even added models for UGC and ETF2L. So I don't see how you could have rightfully demanded competitive matchmaking to be made.
However, I am fairly sure that most people who bought TF2 expected to be able to join or host community servers if they ever wanted to and not thrown in a ghetto devoid of new players and stuffed in a half-size button in the middle of the screen. This was the expectation given how Half-Life, CS:S, and Gmod were, and they purposefully destroyed this feature of the game. So there is a big difference between the comp scene expecting Valve to add a new feature that never existed and no one ever expected, and the community scene asking Valve to add a feature back that was there at the beginning of the game. So, I really don't see how you can even tell us to be patient knowing this difference, and the fact that it has already been 2 years, and countless communities that took 5+ years to build up have permanently died and will never come back even if the quickplay change was reversed today. I will reserve my optimism for that tweet when I actually see what the update is. It is way too vague and it will probably be another failure that no one uses like the "quicklist". Why do they not even say what it is when they've spilled the beans on competitive matchmaking over the years? On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:50 PM, epi <ow...@tf.heybey.org> wrote: > Perhaps you will get the attention you so desperately seek from Valve in > the next update: > > https://twitter.com/4G_b4nny/status/729839464684490752 > > Keep in mind that server owners are not the only group that supports this > game. The competitive scene has held on through it all, is still growing, > and is responsible for a fair amount of the attention that Valve has paid > to TF2 recently. Even then, it took them a _long_ time to get anything at > all. If you're interested in seeing how that all played out, you can start > here: > > > http://www.teamfortress.tv/24742/fully-charged-valve-and-competitive-tf2-episode-42 > > > On 5/4/2016 6:10 PM, Andreas Willinger wrote: > >> So, Valve, maybe you should update your Wiki and add "temporary" as >> "forever" (https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time) >> >> Two years, various suggestions have been posted, like improving the UI, >> some >> sort of verified server system and others, yet not even a single word from >> Valve. >> >> >> >> Can we finally get some sort of response or will we wait until TF2 is >> entirely full of braindead, 12 year-old weekend warriors. >> >> >> >> Original text for anyone interested: >> >> >> >> "At this time, we are keeping the default quickplay option to Valve >> servers. >> However, note that if a player wants to find a server with any of the >> supported modifications, then they must land on a community server, since >> Valve servers do not run with these settings." >> >> Posted by Fletcher Dunn on February 8, 2014. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
