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Dr. McKay
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Old 08-02-2013 , 17:48   Re: Policy of Truth: Valve to crack down on servers that fake info to players
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@WebNoob It wouldn't be very quick if quickplay was to allow downloads. By very definition, it is there so people can join a server knowing that there are no extraneous files that are required. However I do agree it is harming the very paradigm of community-created content. I'd hope to one day find a setting called communityplay, or similar, which would be the polar opposite of quickplay and would connect you to any server on a custom map regardless of downloads though still weighted by factors like ping and current players.
Or we could nuke it entirely and let people make informed decisions via the server browser.

Hell, the server browser even defaults to simple mode, which picks the lowest-ping server for each map it comes across.
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