Re: [hlds] When will quickplay return to a level playing field?

2014-03-24 Thread Phillip Vector
I love how you guys are saying you want to develop the community you are trying to build, then the next sentence is that people are too stupid/lazy to find you guys. Can't have it both ways. Personally, I've got lots of time into the game and love quick play. I know I can get a vanilla experience

Re: [hlds] When will quickplay return to a level playing field?

2014-03-24 Thread E. Olsen
I think the issue here, is...there really is no longer any reason for valve servers to be the "default" servers once a player has 8-12 hours in the game. The minority of players who only want those random pub games on valve servers now have that option - but the players who stick around in the lon

Re: [hlds] When will quickplay return to a level playing field?

2014-03-24 Thread Chris Oryschak
It would be really nice to get some input on this from Valve. Since the change every day gets worse and worse for player activity on my servers thanks to the QP changes and lack of new players having the ability to find my servers. You can view the beautiful downward trend caused by these changes:

Re: [hlds] When will quickplay return to a level playing field?

2014-03-24 Thread Robert Paulson
As I said before, the problem is not that the official servers only option exists, the problem is that it is on by default. People too lazy to use the browser are too lazy to use options. Again I would like to suggest automatically un-checking the official servers only after 4-5 hours of play. Any

Re: [hlds] When will quickplay return to a level playing field?

2014-03-24 Thread 1nsane
What about something similar like before where valve servers had an advantage over community servers with new players being sent to them (due to the valve server score boost)? Except this time just make it so all new players get sent to valve servers by default. And then after a certain amount of

[hlds] When will quickplay return to a level playing field?

2014-03-24 Thread Jason Tango
As we approach the 2-month mark since Valve's servers were made the "default" servers for all quickplay players, can the TF2 team give us a time frame when they will return the system to a "level playing field" for all servers? As it stands, the players who want to avoid all community servers now