> It's like cutting a stranger's lawn > and expecting a > Hamilton for it ...
This is a bad analogy. The point being made is that a question has been posed to Valve by the HLDS server admin mailing list. Valve has not yet given a response. The popularity of Half-Life, and it's continued (apparently) financial success is due to the number of *free* public servers available for consumers of the client to play on, AND the number of MODs available for the HL engine. That said, watch what would happen to Valve if all the HLDS server admins decided to boycott the company, and shut down all those 10,000+ HLDS servers. I'm talking permanently. You would see a much different attitude from Valve if this happened. HL has experienced a nice success snowball effect because of all the *free* support given to it by those who host it and develop for it. If CS would have never been developed, HL would be a "has been" or "classic" game already. There would be no recurring revenue. Valve would already be belly up, or close to it. The point that many are making is, without public servers (and those who host them), and without cool mods that extend the useful life of the HL engine, few would play HL, and therefore few would continue to buy it. Thus, bye bye Valve. It seems the general consensus is that Valve "owes" something back to those who have helped make Valve financially successful, whom without, Valve would be nothing. No, Valve didn't ask for this, but they'd be nowhere without it.... StanTheMan TheHardwareFreak www.hardwarefreak.devastation.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: HL Server [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 2:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: PB doesn't even work, confirmed! > > > > At 11:18 AM 09/25/2001 -0500, you wrote: > > > Why do you deserve to know anything about VALVe's business? > > > >Because we've volunteered hundreds of man hours and > thousands of dollars to > >supporting their product. Because it's not unreasonable to > have *some* > >sort of > >response. The amount of money and time spent on serving this > game for them > >is just staggering, > >and I'm glad I'm not stuck with most of y'all's colo bills > and hardware > >bills... > > snipped a lot, but my stance is this ... VALVe didn't ask you > to do it, you > did it on your own ... It's like cutting a stranger's lawn > and expecting a > Hamilton for it ... > > > > It's a shame, PB is NOT an obstacle for any cheaters ... > > > >Heh, since most of these hacks will *not* run in Win2k, I've > been unable > >to test > >them for a while... This is very possible, and I have to rely on the > >information from folks like you and the other members of > this list, for > >instance, for the only half-way reliable reports on what's > caught and what's > >not. Heh, and then you get conflicting responses, and > you're like, "Well? > >Which is it? Caught or not?" Heh, ahhhhh, the life of a > non-cheating > >admin ;) > > > >Eric (the Deacon remix) > >http://www.firekite.com > > Hack works perfectly fine on W2K ... I wouldn't run anything else ... > > I finally got fed up after months of being hit from across > the map and when > the link presented itself, I decided to test my anti-cheat armor ... I > found out that there is no armor and it's been going on > forever ... It was > never even hindered by PB ... I would have shared this > information even if > PB didn't decide to bail on HL .... > >
