I wont pay 2-3 a month to get rid of ads in a game that didn't have ads
in it when I purchased it...
Roman Hatsiev wrote:
Yes, I would agree with brand concept here. Players are joining and
staying at our communities not because they don't have other servers
to play at but because of effort and money we put into our projects. I
don't think that messing up with every dedicated server on the network
does make any sense but whose which are really busy and thus deliver a
lot of ads to players should have some compensation.
I'm not going to hurt my community by dropping any of my servers as
long as I have players on them and I suppose most of us won't do that
and that is why I don't think we ever get any compensation...
As for more realistic approach I would rather prefer to pay 2-3 USD
per month to disable ads for myself.
This is all very sad though.
On 07/03/07, Rob Poe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I won't jeopardize my Steam account (which I paid well over $90 for) to
run a "third party fix".
However, here's my feeling on this matter.
Whether or not it would or would not affect MY bandwidth as a server
owner (I've run servers for years .. CS in 2000-2002, DOD 2002-2005,
etc) it's still MY brand and MY server. Not MY game, but a brand. Yes,
servers / communities are BRANDS. To taint MY BRAND by putting someone
else's advertising in is totally objectionable.
Valve needs to offer two options to the GSP's and server owners.
1. Compensation. I'd say that 10% per ad impression.
or
2. The ability to disable the ads.
We play games to GET AWAY from the real world. A way to "just veg out"
and take away life stress.
Having to mentally deal with a "Real World" encroaching on the "Virtual
gaming arena" where I go to GET away from real life - makes it too much
like real life.
If there's going to be no choice in this matter, then I declare my Steam
account to be defective, and I want a refund for all of my costs -- for
Steam content and for the CD Keys I have entered..
KeepKnarzling wrote:
> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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