often when i update my server finder through steam to play a game of counter strike i find a server which has 17 of 26 players who are playing the map militia. when i join, the map being played is actually dust2 and there are 3 players..........so i try another one with 17/32 players running the map italy, when i join there are 3 players on the map dust 2 (same server with a different name under the steam server finder)
this same server appears to go by several names. i can try to join 4 or 5 games with 17/26 players in them and find after i join that i am in the same map playing with the same 3 people.
i have found that it is also bad in day of defeat source. countless times i have tried to join a server which says that it has approximately 17 or 23 people currently playing, only to find an empty server after the map loads. in my filter settings i always make sure not to show uninhabited servers. but the steam server finder (or the server) is not showing accurate numbers or even accurate map being played.
am i the only one who has experienced this? do servers get more money or funding based on the amount of people who log in; if so then i can understand why they try to trick people.
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