That's your loss. They are doing a rather good job in my eyes by releasing patches fairly quickly for the more serious of bugs.
I certainly would not consider having logaddress_add in autoexec.cfg part of "simple basic testing". I'm sorry you have so much trouble with it, but if you do not like it, then please just find a new game. On Thursday, April 14, 2005 08:37 PM [GMT-06:00], Mikee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alfred, for what it's worth, the patch of the patch fixed the crashing > server issue, and I'm now on all the lastest files on all three K-9 > HL2-DM > servers. > > What is beyond belief is how Valve can issue a patch that crashes all > the > servers that are using "log on" in the autoexec.cfg file that is so > much a > part of the standard setup. It is obvious that Valve is just issuing > patches willy nilly with not even a simple basic test server setup > before > releasing them. Following the patch last night, there were about 100 > HL2-DM servers left standing....mostly those who don't run logs, or > didn't update. > > Beyond that very simple issue, the lack of any patches for the HUGE > number > of bugs after this long is really disgusting. It is a significant > slap in > the face of your customers. You are advertising having HL2-DM on > your Steam > retail packages now, so this is really no longer a "free gift" that > doesn't > deserve or require maintenance support. > > Your customers are very unhappy....and I feel like a complete chump > for > wasting my money running servers for this fiasco. I'm close to > dumping my > servers, and I know a lot of other HL2-DM players and server admins > who feel EXACTLY the same way. The problem is that we all expected > so much more professionalism from Valve. > > Sorry to be so negative, but Valve needs to get the impact of how > they are > treating this community...with not a single damn word of explanation > or > apology. How would you feel if you didn't work for them? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds