If Valve still had a problem with ads they would have done what you said, remove flash and javascript. It is much easier to remove things than to add a new UI and quickpick.
Replacing Servers with "Play Community Servers" is not a suitable solution. It is half the size of a normal button and tucked under 2 full sized ones. You'll get the same problem we have now. A better solution would be to turn off the official servers option after 10 games or so. - That way, new players are guaranteed to see what a "vanilla" experience looks like. - People that absolutely hate community servers can leave it checked. - And community servers wouldn't die due to inertia. On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Weasels Lair <wea...@weaselslair.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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