Wow. Sorry, I am a little bit behind the curve here since I don't host CS or CS:S. You mean to tell me that this in game advertising is forced and not optional? I was obviously wrong when I read the original announcement about it earlier. I thought it gave the server admin an opportunity to run in-game ads of their choice & design. But apparently this is a forced change and the content stream is not defined by the admin, but by Valve? OK: Are you fucking serious? I am sorry this is happening to the CS/CS:S community, and sure hope it doesn't find it's way into the other mods. We spend $1200 monthly on servers for pubs. An out of pocket expense without any revenue stream to support it. If I was then forced to run ads for someone and allow them to capitalize on my services which I offer for free, I'd drop the game vendor in a heartbeat.
It was bad enough the other day when I went into one of my TFC pubs and saw some advertisement in the "Content Provided By:" box that listed some other game server host. Business is business, and Valve's product are no exception. They develop in order to make a profit. Valve has extreme talent and also the financial capability to dictate a lot of the industry trends, so why jump on this bandwagon? This is, in my opinion, as bad as spam. How Sad. Please someone tell me that I have it all wrong, and Valve isn't selling out and throwing their admins under the bus. Can anyone confirm or deny that this ad based model will or will not be in TF2? We plan to make a huge roll out of dozens of TF2 pubs when Valve pushes the final release of it, but if TF2 will have ads, I will go buy a fishing boat or gamble $20k on craps in Vegas instead of doing a TF2 server farm. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [GS]Admin Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 6:10 AM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Ingame adds, who will remove them? Yup I guess it's time for me and my community to move along to a different non-ad'ed game.This is the reason we didn't play or buy into BF2142. Good-bye VALVe.... BeNt ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If it can not connect to the ad server, it automatically provides you with > the viewing pleasure of VALVe game ads. > ---- "Saint K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll give a cookie to the first one to write a tweak to block the ads. _______________________________________________ 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
