There's already a Client'fix' out there - but i wont post the URL here. Valve should pay the Serveradmin's for delivering the Ad's.
RMaioroff schrieb: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
