Seriously? Valve has sold out because they took away HTML MOTD from quickplay (not even every connection, just the quickplay connections)?
You have a strange sense of scale. -James On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Hutch <hu...@halsplayground.com> wrote: > And I wholly agree with you Asherkin, someone such as yourself who has > spent so much personal time to this project should have some sort of feel > such as I do. I guess what I am trying to convey is long gone are the days > of communities having some sort of code. Whereas you wanted to kick the > other communities butt by populating your servers, getting your admins on > and actually playing and socializing. Building your community in that > fashion, with hard work, time and personal commitment and investment. > > There was an unspoken rule that you told your admins you don't go to joe > blows servers in an effort to recruit, rather, you put your efforts in to > ones own servers and build your user base. Sure on occasion you had that > one server operator gone rouge that started DDOS'ing your servers, or that > one persistent stalker and it went away in a day or two. Now its script > kiddies gone wild, quick-play and server farms popping up to run ads. > > Downward descent started when the hats and weapons came in drops versus > achievements and became too numerous versus an occasional treat. In-game > ads for money is just was the bitter cherry on top. Now we have the > equivalent of TF2 WalMarts popping up on every corner and it has destroyed > the foundation of a communal effort that supported Valve. Look at the ratio > of updates and what they pertain towards and whats normally listed at the > top of the list in an update. Valve felt like a grassroots effort that has > now gone commercial. Oh hey, nothing wrong with inventing something cool > and along the way getting rich and popular. But you can do it while keeping > in touch with the independent guys that helped make it a success. > > Mayhaps Valve has lost touch. > -- > Hutch > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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