Jun 20, 2008, 07:54 PM
I'm not a fan of the server slot arms race myself. We didn't have this in the old days. No offense to DF or any of the other guys that run server operations like this, but there is a lot of people out there that can run servers for free. I could run one myself (*cough* I work in the ISP biz). I ran popular servers for all the quake games. But I don't anymore because nobody plays on them. Why? Because these guys hype the bejesus out of their stuff with the websites, forums, irc, stat pages and what not. Then they come up with these reserved slots and donations to pay for their stuff. Thus begins the demise.