That's not really true, IMO. For example, donations to WWF (the World Wildlife Fund) or PBS give you perks such as tote bags, DVDs, and plenty of other gifts. Certainly, the value of the gifts is much lower than they would be--they're more incentives rather than actual products--but the fact remains, there are still perks for donating.
Now certainly TF2 community donations are not anywhere near the same as actual nonprofit organizations, but I think it's fair to call them donations. Many of the people who donate to CSn do it more because they enjoy their community rather than because they want round-end immunity. Since you mentioned reserved slots, yes we do have them, but we do not have the kicking feature enabled, so our servers appear full (24/24) instead of 23/24. We too dislike the kicking reserved slots. --Gavin "Benny Hill" L from the Crit Sandvich Network On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Invalid Protocol < invalidprotocolvers...@gmail.com> wrote: > As far as I know, when you donate (money or goods) you don’t expect > something back. Very few communities use donations to support the servers. > **** > > ** ** > > Most of them simply sell something (access to reserved slot, immunity > during humiliation round etc…) for real money and call this a donation. > Also, as far as I know, No Heroes servers can kick a player to free a slot > for a “donator” ( > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1531500), so in > their case is “pay to play” instead “pay to win”.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto: > hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] *On Behalf Of *E. Olsen > *Sent:* Saturday, May 05, 2012 12:59 AM > > *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Policy of Truth??**** > > ** ** > > Yeah - let's not paint communities whose members donate to support their > servers as something negative. Community supported servers are as old as pc > gaming itself. Not all communities that are member-supported are "pay to > win". We sure as hell aren't.**** > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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