Originally Posted by
Lazors
Well, how are you going to have popularity without official servers? How are you going to have diversity without unpopular mods? I thought you were the one who wanted diversity.
It doesn't take that many official servers to show off a mod. Just one or two public servers for a new and different mod, and it either picks up or doesn't. The question is, how are we going to get out new and interesting (competitive) mods to the public, if there aren't any official servers for them?
Yeah. Unless a mod gets exposure in official room for a while, it's almost certainly doomed to remain in obscurity for the rest of time. It will never develop a large player base, its own meta, organizations etc. Ranked mods today owe their popularity in large part to the fact that they were picked for official room by some GMs/admins long time ago. I'm not saying quality of the mod is irrelevant (some remain unpopular even after being official for a long time) but the spotlight matters a great deal.