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Originally Posted by Sup
I don't mean to be a downer on this, but you releasing such a high quality plugin publicly, which before would require people to hire developers to make and set different servers apart, creates saturation in the community. Before it was all about exclusivity, and it was perfect that way. Now everyone and their mother can just pop your plugin, stripper files, and database config in in under 30 minutes and have a surf server.
Don't get me wrong, you did a very good job at creating this, but you've almost ruined it for the others that have paid for these private server plugins to stand out from the rest. Now, soon, whenever you go to the browser community servers, all you'll see is surf servers running ckSurf. There is no distinction between servers. There is no real competition left, because there is so much of it, if you get what I'm saying, or will be at least.
I think releasing such a customized plugin, which takes basically no effort to put in a server will be the downfall of surf servers. So many people will attempt to create these servers, but just end up with the same as everyone else, and it could be worse. Their admins, their people, could be the scum of the earth just trying to make a quick buck, and you gave them that opportunity.
When all you see is ckSurf is the browser server communities tab, and there is nothing unique, nothing original, nothing actually worth going on.... I'm just saying, I told you so.
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Hey,
I am a software engineering student, who just made this for fun on my free time, because I didn't like the existing public plugins out there. I'm not really interested in running CSGO servers, as I have no interest in making a big community or anything like that. My servers were always like a playground to test this plugin, but eventually I realized that it was just a waste of the plugin.
I had been running the plugin for about 6 months prior to release, had a few beta testers, but didn't get any offers to buy it or anything, so I decided to release it for free. I was running out of motivation to keep developing it, and zipcore's timer had pretty much died, so I thought why not.
It's too bad that the competetive surf scene's opinion seems to be negative, but hey, you have your own, more advanced private servers, so I really don't see how this would kill off the real competition there. I actually think that this will just introduce more people to the scene, and therefore will bring more competition etc, but I guess we'll see.