Sent Eric and Fletcher something, written as a regular TF2 player speaking of community servers in general rather than name-dropping Skial. Maybe those omissions will actually get me somewhere.
Valve diverting new players to their servers. Select servers will be closed.
- Thread starter Bottiger
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Please do not close 24/7 Dustbowl NY. It's practically the ONLY place I play. If it were to go down I'd probably stop completely. Became addicted to this game the past few months and the ping on that server is perfect for me and Dustbowl is my fav map. I rarely play anywhere else. Here's part of the email I just sent to BOTH Valve addresses posted. I encourage anyone to copy parts of it, but PLEASE EMAIL VALVE. "Strength in numbers" people. And, obviously it's a money thing from Valve's perspective... they're trying to make it proprietary.
"Hello, My name is ... I've spent $ on items for this game and almost exclusively play on Skail's NY 24/7 Dustbowl servers. Dustbowl is my favorite map, and I've built some great friendships and had a ton of fun there. I'm writing to urge you to take this into consideration concerning the new changes to the quickplay server structure. I do play the Valve servers once in awhile, but they are not as close with as low of a ping and this makes a major difference. I will most likely stop playing if Skial goes under which is a shame because I have a decent amount of money to spend at the Valve Shop. I urge you to please take this server into consideration. I do not want to lose the community, nor my 24/7 Dustbowl, nor the ability to use my Halloween hats etc.. I am in no way affiliated with Skial, I'm just a user who is happy there and very upset from the possibility of it being lost. I hope you can understand and are willing to help. Thanks for your time"
PS... I actually signed up for the forums to post this and I really will stop playing if Dustbowl NY goes under. Hope you all can take a minute out of your day to write Valve and show your support.
"Hello, My name is ... I've spent $ on items for this game and almost exclusively play on Skail's NY 24/7 Dustbowl servers. Dustbowl is my favorite map, and I've built some great friendships and had a ton of fun there. I'm writing to urge you to take this into consideration concerning the new changes to the quickplay server structure. I do play the Valve servers once in awhile, but they are not as close with as low of a ping and this makes a major difference. I will most likely stop playing if Skial goes under which is a shame because I have a decent amount of money to spend at the Valve Shop. I urge you to please take this server into consideration. I do not want to lose the community, nor my 24/7 Dustbowl, nor the ability to use my Halloween hats etc.. I am in no way affiliated with Skial, I'm just a user who is happy there and very upset from the possibility of it being lost. I hope you can understand and are willing to help. Thanks for your time"
PS... I actually signed up for the forums to post this and I really will stop playing if Dustbowl NY goes under. Hope you all can take a minute out of your day to write Valve and show your support.
hXcjedders
Australian Skial God
Because Valve's recent changes to quickplay have exacerbated the issue of declining population.
Are you blaming Valve for the fact that people don't find TF2 as entertaining as it was in 2007 and 2010?
let's see. TF2's player base has been shrinking monthly since the release of DOTA2 which was developed by… Valve
just for fun, let's look at the five most helpful reviews on the Steam page:
MikeMouse
Scarcely Lethal Noob
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Bottiger
Administrator
It isn't an issue of tf2 becoming less popular. You can easily see how many people are playing TF2 here.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats
We had more servers full when there were 10,000 fewer people playing. The change by Valve is 100% to blame for this.
We are not closing entirely any time soon. We have wisely saved up so we do not need to instantly close servers the moment they can't support themselves.
However with these new changes eventually every community server similar to "vanilla" gameplay will eventually die out. The players coming from quickplay has been reduced by more than 66% and these mostly new players are critical to keeping a player base alive.
When people realize that Valve is draining so many players they may be less likely to attempt to seed community servers.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats
We had more servers full when there were 10,000 fewer people playing. The change by Valve is 100% to blame for this.
We are not closing entirely any time soon. We have wisely saved up so we do not need to instantly close servers the moment they can't support themselves.
However with these new changes eventually every community server similar to "vanilla" gameplay will eventually die out. The players coming from quickplay has been reduced by more than 66% and these mostly new players are critical to keeping a player base alive.
When people realize that Valve is draining so many players they may be less likely to attempt to seed community servers.
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