Yes but what is the esrb rating on most hl1 games? You guessed it... Rated M for mature. It is not valve's job to enforce the M rating on the game. It is the job of the retailers to not sell the game to minors and then the job of the parents to monitor what their children "consume". You can't argue that it should be taken down because an 8 year old could see a banner. You could maybe argue that a porno banner because it actually appeared to come "from" valve leads them to disable it to reduce their liability. But then could not also a spray in game appear to come "from" valve, because you see it in game? I suppose valve should have never brought hl1 and hl2 to market because an 8 year old could accidently see it, if we were to use your they don't need to joining to see that in their face argument.
If people want to let their kids play mature games then they should merely make a setting that would disable the banner and sprays... Oh wait that already exits... It is called the cl_allowdownloads cvar. Wouldn't this cvar disable the banner downloads, fast downloads, and any custom content that did not come with the default game and disable sprays also? Seems like people that let their kids play mature games and are concerned about them seeing that material should use that setting and monitor their children. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bass > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:42 PM > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com > Subject: Re: [hlds] HL1 banner > > They could get that with a nasty spray as well..... > > Ook wrote: > > The liability issue is too great. Some bozo puts child p0rn in their > > banner, > > and Valve finds themselves in court. I have an 8 year old and a 10 > > year old > > that play on my server all the time, and sometimes play on other > > servers. I > > don't need them joining a server and having some xxx banner in their > > face. > > Too many children play Half-Life, and all it took was some > bozo with an > > obscene logo to get Valve to take the feature away. It will never be > > given > > back to us. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steve!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com> > > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:40 PM > > Subject: Re: [hlds] HL1 banner > > > > > >> I've brought this up before, Alfred even took steps to see WHY the > >> banners > >> weren't working. Then he remembered that they had been > taken out of the > >> engine, and I'm sure commented that they would not be coming back. > >> > >> Why they were taken out, I'm not sure, they were a nice feature, > >> better to > >> have something there than a boring loading screen during maploads. > >> > >> Really Valve, give us these back, they're no worse than > having in game > >> sprays etc, what harm could they possibly do? > >> > >> Steve! > >> www.timerider.co.uk > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
