Excuse me? I will eh ... "make" maybe US$20 this month in "revenue" from the non-video/banner ads I am running. I've been doing dedicated servers of one form or another since the HL1+WON days (pre-Y2k/pre-Steam). Definitely not in it for "the money". The only reason I even started looking at putting-in advertising is due to current employment situation (or lack there-of).
Are there some people out there trying to make a "living" off hosting servers - maybe. But to infer ALL or even MOST? That is just utter stupidity. The way to kill off the real player-annoying stuff is to kill video dead, while leaving HTML/images/banners/non-audio-animation in place. In other words, allow JPG's, and PNG's and GIF's, etc. but block all flash and java - whether it is quick-play or not. But, back to the ORIGINAL point of the thread (I think? was there one?), having the community servers off by default in quick-play is probably not helping the longevity of the game. Players tend to get board with vanilla quickly, but if there is some setting they have to go dig to find - they are more likely to jump to some other game - rather than look it up. IMH(f)O, "Play multiplayer" should be replaced with "Play Official Servers", and "Servers" should be replaced with "Play Community Servers". "So say we all"? or should it be "Hallowed are the Ori"? On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Supreet Sahni <coachcrock...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think what nobody is touching on is the fact that they are losing a lot > of ad revenue because of this. > > Lol, maybe they want to hear us complain about how we aren't making any > profits off of our servers now. > > Valve is not stupid. They know big servers can cover more than server > costs and make a lot of profit with Pinion or MOTDgd. > > Money is the only catalyst for this never ending discussions. All yall > couldn't give a damn about the community or the game. > > But hey Valve, if you can make hundreds of thousand off of store items, > why now allow us to make a couple hundred or so? > > Please and Thanks >
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