No ... It will irritate the Hackers ... Not the users since we all gave up playing.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 8:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlds] When will the "nosteam" hacks be fixed? Turning off your servers will achieve nothing other then irritated users, it won't speed up their software development schedule, there's people working on fixes, we just have to wait :/ - Bruce "Bahamut" Andrews OConnor John wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of K. Mike Bradley > >If you server admins really wanted to do something stop your servers for >one day ... Lets say this Friday. > >See what Valve does then. > > > >That is a *really* interesting notion. > >Given that Valve is effectively in a loose partnership with server >admins, commercial and otherwise, all around the world. > >A co-dependence where server admins rely on Valve to provide an >attractive, stable gaming environment, and server admins provide >hardware and bandwidth to make Valve's online products worthwhile. The >alternative of Valve/Sierra/Vivendi establishing a commercial gaming >network is presumably not as economically attractive. > >(I wonder how the accountants feel about relying on such informal >external support as part of their business model?) > > > >But anyway - Valve aren't stupid. They are not ignorant of the issues. > >One just hopes that their efforts are concentrated on the issues we >percieve as important - and not on producing Ricochet:Source. > > > > > JOC > > >John P O'Connor > >Email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >If an infinite number of monkeys were >given an infinite number of microphones, >would we *really* need Britney Spears? > > > >************************************************************************ >The information in this e-mail together with any attachments is >intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed >and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. >Any form of review, disclosure, modification, distribution >and/or publication of this e-mail message is prohibited. >If you have received this message in error, you are asked to >inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this message >and any copies of this message from your computer and/or your >computer system network. >************************************************************************ > > >_______________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: >http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
