Would you be interested in helping/playing on an unofficial community L4D2 server? 33 members have voted

[Goku]

So @Metal has been putting togther some L4D2 community events, and @Console had the suggestion of having our own server. As said there, it would have to be one that we setup on our own. So with that, I wanted to make this separate thread to add a poll, and discuss the possibility of doing just that.

 

So I have come across a few options that would probably be easiest, and best for our situation.

 

Option 1: Buygamingservers.com

Price- 99 cents (USD)/slot.

Slots- 10-64

Payment: Monthly, Quarterly 5% discount, Semiannually 10% discount, Annually 15% disccount

Features:

 

• Instant Setup
  
• 24/7 Technical Support
  
• Web Console Rcon
  
• Banners & Ranks
  
• 1 Click Steam Updates
  
• Easy File Manager
  
• Activity & Stats Graphs
  
• Log Viewer
  
• Config Files Editor
  
• FTP Access
  

 

 

 

So if we go with say 16 20 slots, we'd be looking at $15.84 $19.80 monthly ($190 $237/yr), $45.15 $56.43 quarterly ($180 $220/yr), $85.54 $106.92 semiannually ($171 $213/yr) or $161.57 $201 annually.

 

Option 2: Gameservers.com

Price- $1.99/slot (public), $1.49/slot (private)

Slots: Only offers 8 slots

Payment: Monthly (15.95/mo $191.yr), Quarterly (45.46/every 3 mo $181/yr), Semiannually (86.13/2 mo $172/yr) Annually (162/yr)

Features:Basically the same (I used gameservers few years back to run a css and tf2 server)

 

There are a few other game hosting sites, but the two I listed are the ones that I just decided to run with as the options. If anyone has any better ideas feel free to mention them.

 

 

 

 

So now the questions of whether or not there is enough interest to bother setting this up. I had worked with gameservers in the past, and I assume if we use option 1, it would work very similar. As such, I'd be willing to help set things up and try to maintain it. If there's anyone else interested that could help, then so be it, I'll take the help. The actual setting up process should be relativity easy. No matter which option we use, both offer instant setup and then allow us to go in and customize on top of that.

 

The next question would be the paying. I would rather not do monthly, or quarterly. I also don't know if we should commit to a full year, so I think semi-annual might be the best option for us. The next question is how to go about paying for it. I'm open to suggestions on this topic. Metal and myself will take care of the initial payment, and will bother with the second when the time comes after 6 months.

 

The reason for the strikethroughs when discussing slots for option 1, was because I had originally went with 16, but metal suggested 20 so I adjusted while still showing the 16 slot prices.

 

Basically, I just want to see how much interest is in this before moving forward with it, as well as get some more suggestions.

 

 

Edit: Barring any better suggestions, we will be going with NFOServers, which is apparently what we use for CSGO. It will run us about $68 for 6 months, and Metal and I are both more than willing to split that cost to see how this might work out. If there's interest, we'll give it a shot. We have a few ideas for some events and a possible versus tournament.

 

Edit 2: Struck through the options and payment sections. We will be going with NFOServers if we follow through with this, which is a decent possibility. For the payment, we have taken care of the initial 6 months, and will worry about the later 6 months if needed later on. At this point this thread is mainly in case anyone happens to have any other ideas prior to opening one, and to see how much interest there is in our own l4d2 server.

[Metal]

Hey guys; If you are looking at this I thank you.

With that being said I'll start my wall of text.

 

As goku said, I have put on a few events for L4D2 which has turned out pretty well.

I know we will not have a active player base on this server but its more of a hub for us to use.

 

With us having a server, we wont get kicked for swearing.

For real; This allows us to mod the server for 10v10 vanilla VS, 10 Player V AI, Custom maps for the extra challenge, 20 Slot survival etc

 

With easy access to a server, we have a places to play with no hassle.

[Goku]

@Wawa suggested, using NFOServers.

 

Me and @Metal talked about it, and we are thinking of going with that option would only be $68 for 6 months. We're gonna do a little more research into it, and seeing how much interest there is.

[Prez]

If you guys find a lot of interest I say go for it! I don't play L4D though I'm pretty sure I have it on my steam account aha so I might pop on some time if it ends up happening.

[SilentGuns]

As long as the server is able to sustain itself, I think this would be a great idea. I am not a hardcore L4D2 player but I would probably casually play on a SG server.

[Goku]

As long as the server is able to sustain itself, I think this would be a great idea. I am not a hardcore L4D2 player but I would probably casually play on a SG server.

 

For $68, I think a 6 month trial would be worth it. Metal and myself will need to be sure to try to get events or tournaments setup to help keep it worthwhile. I had worked on a CSS and TF2 server in the past and enjoyed it so hopefully there's enough interest for a L4D2 server. I think I'd enjoy just working on the thing a bit on top of actually playing on it.

[Leon Mordecai]

Seems like an interesting idea. It would be interesting to have our own server where we can basically modify it to our own needs. If people are able to maintain the server with fixes and updates, keep it populated enough, and can also deal with the cost of having it, then it seems like a viable idea.

 

And of course we won't have to randomly find servers which takes a while to play on and then somehow get banned by the admins for rushing and stuff.

[Goku]

Seems like an interesting idea. It would be interesting to have our own server where we can basically modify it to our own needs. If people are able to maintain the server with fixes and updates, keep it populated enough, and can also deal with the cost of having it, then it seems like a viable idea.

 

And of course we won't have to randomly find servers which takes a while to play on and then somehow get banned by the admins for rushing and stuff.

 

Plus @Console will get to keep his name

[Black Rain]

As much as I'm a Left 4 Dead nerd, don't see this going too far with L4D2 barely having a population and don't think too many from our CSGO community plays it. I'll just stick to bugging Spartan, Metal, Burger and Korean for custom co-op

[MyHobos]

I tend to agree with @Black Rain... but if there is a trial server I'll get L4D2 again and I'll be on to see how it goes Honestly tho, anything aside from CS is hard to populate with the majority of any new players on anything else being really low.